It's hard to get immersed into a movie this way. That's how I watched the movie too, in the idea that I had no idea what "The Blair Witch Project" was. No internet back then, it was on the television on a night. I honestly believed it to be a documentary. Scared the crap out of me. Wasn't able to sleep that night, I kept hearing screams in the distance, every noise outside made me uncomfortable.
These days, you see all the scary things in the trailer. Even if you don't watch the trailer, you just hear people talking in the theater, as they saw the trailer, and they read stuff about the movie online. So, you pretty much go to see the expanded trailer.
No wonder that movies do not manage to amaze the audience anymore. They make tons of movies, and all the cinemas are running the same movie for few days. They need to gather people in the cinema in those few days, otherwise, that movie is a flop. In 3-4 days, you can expect people that saw to talk about it and encourage people that didn't saw to go see it. So, they need to attract people into the cinema through trailers.
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