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| This trip into the Black Hills Forest looks immensely better thanks to college students owning thousands of dollars of camera equipment (I'm slightly jealous). |
The Basics:
Who made it? Adam
Wingard (director) and Simon Barrett (writer)
Who’s in it? Imma
be honest, it’s a bunch of people you’ve never heard of, but here we go- James
Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, and others without Wikipedia pages.
Synopsis: After discovering a video showing what he
believes to be his vanished sister Heather, James (McCune) and a group of
friends head to the forest believed to be inhabited by the Blair Witch.
I just want to start by saying I’m a big fan of Wingard and
Barrett’s previous collaborations- You’re
Next (2011) and The Guest (2014).
Both took what appeared to be overused horror/action tropes but took them in
their own unique, interesting ways. So, I was still hopeful for Blair Witch, but I still realized it was
a sequel. In the end, Blair Witch is
a very solid horror film, and a pretty good found footage film. It expands on The Blair Witch Project in some really
cool ways (adding in some sci-fi elements (that I wish would have been explored
more)), and still delivers some real scares.
Scene of the film: Spoiler alert (maybe??)
James and Lisa’s trip to the infamous house in the Black Hills Forest is by far
the most terrifying portion of the film, and gives the audience a lot more to
work with than the original.
Watch it if you like: fun walks in the woods, camping, nature, The Blair Witch Project (duh), found
footage movies, horror movies that aren’t overly reliant of gore, the idea that
witches are real, etc.
My Rating: 6/10
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