The Blair Witch Project didn’t just usher in an age of horror mockumentaries and found-footage movies; it also created a brand-new horror mythology that still makes us afraid of the woods (and people standing in corners) to this day. While the found-footage format is also still popular, many movies fall back on traditional horror creatures or even just people: Cloverfieldhas alien beasts, REC has their version of zombies, and Creephas…well, a dude who’s a murderous creep. One recent overlooked found-footage movie, They’re Outside, is a nice throwback to the originality of The Blair Witch Project but with a modern spin on the genre: it’s technically a mockumentary that features separate found footage from Max, a YouTube personality played by Tom Wheatley. Max is the subject of the in-universe documentary, but Max’s own subject is a woman with agoraphobia. The movie offers a supernatural entity as a possible explanation for her affliction, and although the movie is a slow burn, the folklore it creates for that entity is as creepy as the Blair Witch herself.
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