Saints and Cinema

Episode 70! - Party Like It's 1999, Horror Edition: THE SIXTH SENSE and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

Timothy Winterstein and Jay Winterstein Episode 70

Tim and Jay talk about two of the highest grossing movies of 1999: M. Night Shyamalan's first major hit, The Sixth Sense, and the beginning of the found-footage explosion, The Blair Witch Project. How do they play 25 years later? What do they tell us about our fears and traumas? What makes a genre film work, or not?

Some of the films we mention in this episode: The Sixth SenseSignsThe Blair Witch ProjectCannibal HolocaustNosferatu.

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot