it was new and groundbreaking

The camera is great! It adds to how real it felt. Also I can't help but half-laugh and pause at the people who saw it for the first time back when everyone thought it was real and they're sitting there, thinking this might be the last footage shot of three missing people, and thinking, "mm shakey cam no likey".

As for today I hate seeing some people making fun of it and deriding it as 'terrible'. Even if you go back and watch it now, it's all great. It feels small, it feels homemade, and that's the point.

Yeah, there's always been a lot of gullible folks out there.

@dmcc78
Oh I meant I am half-laughing and half-pausing at people looking at something horrifying that is supposedly real but then complaining about the shakey camera!

I think Blair Witch and the War of the Worlds radio show broadcast are good examples that demonstrate it's not too far gone to believe that some sane and sober people could be in certain circumstances to believe these things were happening/happened.

@BlossomRavenski
(does the @ thing work? I don't use the social media much.)
Yes, the social media of the 90s! Small chat rooms and message boards.... it was a different time. It's harder to trick people now.

I think I get what you mean on it being "more tamed" but could you explain further please? You mean how they used unknown actors so it felt more real and horror vs. a whole camera crew, cellphones, and such of today's ghost hunters? That it feels more like a production now?

I wonder how much influence it had on social media. Social media wasnt.as big of a deal back then. Now, we see many videos of people running with cameras through cemeteries, chasing ghosts. It's like they went to the extreme on a new way of filming, then it became trendy but more tamed.

Seriously!

A lot of people had that complaint. It is creepy though because it feels real and it makes you use your imagination.

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