There’s no way you’re wrong: usually, it is bestif one goes to watch this movie without reading what it is about.In all fairness, it was not unnecessary traditional horror franchise horror and there was this one lonely note of grandiosity to come, which this long overdue follow up follows in much the same direction. As such, the review below will make every attempt to reveal as little as possible, but it is understandable that those who have not seen the film should return after doing so and that is a very good film.
The original Blair Witch Project is a historical film for several genres, single handedly establishing the ‘found footage’ sub-genre in Hollywood and getting marketed so effectively over the Internet, which was at that time quite nascent, that there existed even a few sections of audience who were fooled by the pageant almost entirely.
The plot focused on three student filmmakers – Heather, Michael and Joshua – going into the Black Hills Forest of Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 looking for the legendary titular character. They did not come back, but the tapes they made were found, and though they did seem to be possessed by a presence before they went into a deserted structure which is when everything cut off in an abrupt and relatively vague fashion.
Disregarding the pointless money-making sequel of Book of Shadows, Blair Witch comfortably picks up the story 20 years after the events of the original. And once again, through found footage, this time dated May 2014. With other circumstances improved over the years, it goes without saying that the footages are shot using webcams and head cameras (with GPS) and even recorded with drones.
Over the years, Heather’s brother James (James Allen McCune) has obsessed about the circumstances of her disappearance and scoured the web trying to find anything that could help her find her, and found a YouTube video that made him decide to go to Burkitsville himself.
His college mate Lisa (Callie Hernandez) is very enthusiastic about the whole thing and wants to film it for her film studies class – hence all the cameras. Peter (Brandon Scott), Ashley (Corbin Reid) and some other friends go with them for amusement.
En-route they meet Lane (Wes Robinson) and his girlfriend Talia (Valorie Curry) who had uploaded the above-mentioned video on YouTube under the name Darknet666. However, eccentric Lane insists that they must both be part of the hunt if he is to tell them where he got the tape from.
And that revealed cardinal actors in search of Heather B. Thus much we are prepared to say about the plot of the film as the reason why Blair Witch is nasty, hides in numerous twists of the film. What we may inform you is how good it is as one more sequel of the story, and how good it is as a stand-alone horror movie. Sorry, the judge was not biased with the Quo Vadis.
It is told by Adam Wingard mail and Simon Barrett – one of the filmmakers of You’re Next and The Guest, which you know is a great fun – that Blair Witch is built on the same way as its earlier program, rather which means to say that this center’s journey is not dissimilar. Barrett needs to originate some franchise-killing reboot, which is unrealistic simply because it is not a curse.
There is no other way to make that unearthed cliches here – Barrett’s screenplay contains this alternative detaching from the character developed back in the film from 1999, I think many stuck in, for that reason, given the absence of completely cleared. And now every so often certain things just do not come together, the inclusion of an extreme aspect such as body horror for a short period somewhere in the film causes discomfort but does not at all relate to the evil main premise.
But for me, he fully understands where one should be balanced, takes one of the best designs of Project and advances it in more and more impressive series which tells the tale of the Blair Witch, satisfies some of the questions but gives rise to many more.
Wingard surprisingly has the same control in his direction. The found footage language, which requires sophistry to cross all the horror limits one after the other, has become worn out. This movie also plays with that idea in the film by employing abrupt camera glitches in many parts simply to be disorientating to the audience.
A character even gives a recognition to how irritating that particular form of jump-scare can be. Still, and although there are sequences wherein the film is certainly self-referential – aware of what a typical audience of today’s horror films expects and tries to subvert that – it is never too much to the point of being irritating or overly pretentious.
He is able to elicit decent acting from a relatively inexperienced cast, and although anybody would remember the hysterical Heather Donahue in the waning final scenes of Project in the same way no one individual in his work compare to McCune who plays the affectionate but gullible brother who sees events at the very end, and it is quite sad.
But that is the last lap that is more Wingard – and more importantly the film – has to offer with the director venturing into intense terror using all the faux documentary techniques at his disposal as James commences to make the understanding of what became of his sister.
The nutty last sequences make a fool of spectators as the Blair Witch does to her victims. The viewer feels lost in the action, as in the follies, and experiences fear, not sympathetic but destructive, which in the end leads to a strong reconciliation of a devastating acceptance.
And though the ending isn’t quite as brutal as the last moments of Project, the emotional impact is by no means less, which makes Blair Witch a good sequel, I won’t pretend that the sequel will have the same cultural significance as the original but it will still be able to frighten pants off those willing to subject themselves to it.
Conclusion
Blair Witch is an impressive continuation that embraces the ethos of the predecessor, whereas seeking to improve the storytelling that has been offered in the original. The film fills in many gaps that some may not admire and were fans of the original film’s mystery and lack of clarity, but for those of you who want more of what made the first film work, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett have more of that in very disturbing and very real great way.
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