![]() Yet The Blair Witch Project was heavily marketed as a horror film and remains a landmark in the found footage genre while Criminal Lovers stayed mostly in arthouse theaters due to its frank sexuality as well as its refusal to stay within genre conventions. Both were influential in spawning two new modes of storytelling. Both were far cries from what the multiplexes were offering. Both were products of their time and thus reflect their respective society's anxieties. Both drew heavily from folktales by the Brothers Grimm. Both involved young people getting lost in the woods. Both were postmodern takes on contemporary folklore. In 1999, two very different horror films were unleashed onto audiences.
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