It’s a master course in shaky cam aesthetics, and if you don’t like watching films shot in this style, stay far away from this one because it’s gonna drive you batty. Mind you, the entire film is riddled with shaky cam madness, but Wingard takes it to the next level during the finale. It all culminates in a showdown at the house where the witch is thought to live (The same house Heather ended up in in the original film) that’s a celebration of all things shaky cam. One second, someone is pulling a twig outta their leg, next second they’re being dragged away by someone, or some thing. The film methodically eliminates everyone in its cast, and does so without much rhyme or reason. Especially when the scares are as poorly set up as they are in this film, you’ll see them coming a mile away. There’s the occasional attempt at a jump scare, but audiences today are far too savvy to fall for that crap anymore. Let me repeat that, There isn’t a single solitary scare in this film. But all of that work means diddlysquat when there isn’t a single solitary scare in their film. Wingard does a good job directing his actors, and cinematographer Robbie Baumgartner makes the woods of Burkittsville look effectively dark and endless. Sadly, Barrett’s script doesn’t give the audience any reason to care about any of them, and, true to the standard tropes of this kind of film, they all do really stupid things to move the plot along. The performances are pretty much the best thing about this mess, everyone involved seems to be fully invested in their characters. What we’re subjected to is gonna be quite familiar to everyone who saw the original film, this one holds no real surprises. Here’s a shocker – she’s not attractive). But it does literally nothing to advance the legend behind the story (Save for giving the audience a quick glance or two at what Elly really looks like. Blair Witch calls itself a sequel, but in actuality it hems pretty closely to the original plot, so it feels a lot more like a remake – a much glossier remake. All of them are equipped with some pretty high tech gear, and seem fully prepared for whatever the foreboding forest might hold, but their gadgets are no match for Elly Kedward (The name of the titular character), and her little stick thingies that she likes to hang on trees while you’re asleep… So Lane ( Wes Robinson) and Talia ( Valorie Curry) come along for the adventure. In addition to the friends he brings, Lisa ( Callie Hernandez), Ashley ( Corbin Reed) & Peter ( Brandon Scott), James agrees to bring along the couple that found the videotape that he saw online with his sister on it. So he gets a few of his friends together to find the house that video was filmed at, and hopefully find his sister. As you well know, none of them were ever seen again, but James has come across a snippet of a online video that seems to feature his long missing sister in it for a second. James ( James Allen McCune) has been trying to find out what really happened to his sister, Heather, who went off into a part of Burkittsville, MD some years ago with a few of her friends to record a documentary called The Blair Witch Project some 17 years ago. Allow me to recount the plot (such as it is) to you. But this is a load of bunk.īut I’m getting ahead of myself, I’ve a tendency to do that.
Pardon me if I refuse to suck on the teat of the hype machine.
And once the world found out that it was really a sequel, certain unnamed outlets immediately began calling it things like “ A New Beginning For Horror Films“, “ One Of The Scariest Movies Ever Made” and “ A Truly Terrifying Cinematic Experience“.
After originally being announced as “ The Woods“, its true title was revealed to be “ Blair Witch” a few weeks before its debut.
Writer Simon Barrett & Director Adam Wingard decide that it’s time for a proper sequel to the original film. Its final worldwide gross ended up at just under $48,000,000, not too terrific when it cost $15,000,000 to produce – but still a relative success. Entitled “ Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2“, it took a different approach to the source material, and suffered mightily for it. Thanks to the incredible success of the first film, a sequel (of sorts) was released. Its final worldwide gross ended up at nearly $250,000,000 dollars, which isn’t too shabby a return on a budget rumored to be no more than $60,000. In that year, a film called The Blair Witch Project was released to audiences after one of the most brilliantly conceived & executed hype campaigns ever devised basically had the entire world waiting to watch it. After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his sister’s experiences in the demonic woods of the Blair Witch, James and a group of friends head to the forest in search of his lost sibling
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