{"id":95315,"date":"2025-08-19T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95315\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:03:08","slug":"movies-people-mistakenly-believed-were-true-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/95315\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies People Mistakenly Believed Were True Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      9.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;The Blair Witch Project. Back upon original release, I was in high school and EVERYONE swore up and down that it was an actual documentary. &#8216;This is real?&#8217; I kept asking \u2014 most of it was somewhat believable. My buddy didn\u2019t help because he was 100% believing everything and staving my skepticism. It was until the very last scene where I realized. I was like, &#8216;okay, nah no way.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/movies\/comments\/1mmqbdl\/what_movie_did_you_think_was_a_true_story_until\/n7zkrly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dogmaisb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah it was presented that way for sure. They did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2024-07-30\/the-blair-witch-project-marketing-25th-anniversary-1999-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">great job at marketing<\/a> it so everyone just went along and spread it was real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/movies\/comments\/1mmqbdl\/what_movie_did_you_think_was_a_true_story_until\/n7zpe6h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dogmaisb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This movie and Donnie Darko had two of the best movie websites I&#8217;ve ever seen. Blair Witch Project&#8217;s site filled in a lot of backstory and mythology about the witch, and Donnie Darko&#8217;s site revealed that an artifact of the closed loop timeline was left behind in the main timeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/movies\/comments\/1mmqbdl\/what_movie_did_you_think_was_a_true_story_until\/n804c7i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KarlBob<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9. &#8220;The Blair Witch Project. Back upon original release, I was in high school and EVERYONE swore up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,1757,1758,206,217],"class_list":["post-95315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-flipped","tag-movies","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}