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Blair Witch 2 Rapidshare. 2/11/2018 0 Comments Story Summary: To cash in on all of the 'real world' hype of the events in the first film, a man from Burkitsville, Maryland opens a 'Blair Witch Hunt' tour, which shows patrons various locations from the original film. A bunch of college students decide to take the tour, and wind up in Rustin Parr. Quick library search: Anywhere Subject Title Author Series Fiction Nonfiction. Part 2, The dark knight returns. The best of enemies. The best of World's greatest. Big little lies. Birth of flight: a history of civil aviation. Blood simple. Bob Marley and the Wailers: live at the. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is a 2000 American psychological horror film, directed and co-written by Joe Berlinger and starring Jeffrey Donovan, Stephen Barker Turner, Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen and Tristine Skyler.The film was immediately greenlit upon pitch due to the surprising success of its predecessor, the wildly successful 1999 film The Blair Witch Project.
Running time90 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$15 millionBox office$47.7 millionBook of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is a 2000 American film, directed and co-written by and starring,. The film was immediately greenlit upon pitch due to the surprising success of its predecessor, the wildly successful 1999 film. Stylistically different from the first film, the plot revolves around a group of people fascinated by the mythology surrounding The Blair Witch Project film; they go into the where the original film was shot, and experience supernatural phenomena and psychological unraveling.Originally conceived by Berlinger and co-writer Dick Beebe as a psychological thriller and meditation on, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 was significantly altered in post-production, which Berlinger would later claim compromised his original vision. Among the changes were a new soundtrack, additional editing, and the integration of entirely new sequences.The film was released in theaters in North America and the United Kingdom on October 27, 2000 to largely negative reviews from critics and audiences; it was, however, a financial success, grossing $47 million worldwide against its $15 million budget. Contents.Plot In November 1999, tourists and fans of descend on the small town of, where the film was set. Local resident Jeff, a former psychiatric patient and obsessed fan, orchestrates a group tour of locations featured in the film. Among the group are Stephen and his pregnant girlfriend, Tristen, who are researching mythology and; Erica, the daughter of an minister; and Kim, a psychic.
They camp for the night in the ruins of 's house, where Jeff has placed surveillance cameras, hoping to capture supernatural occurrences. Jeff becomes unnerved when he notices a large tree located in the center of the house's foundation, claiming it was not there before. That night, another tour group arrives to camp at the ruins, but are misdirected to Coffin Rock by Jeff and Stephen.After drinking and smoking marijuana all night, the group awaken in the morning to find Stephen and Tristen's research documents shredded and strewn through the woods, and Jeff's cameras destroyed; his damaged tapes are uncovered beneath the house's foundation. Tristen suffers a, and they rush her to the Burkitsville hospital. In her hospital room, Tristen sees a young girl walking backward.
After she is discharged, the group retreat to Jeff's home, an industrial building that was once a factory. While Tristen rests, the group review Jeff's tapes, which uncover an image of Erica circling around a tree, nude. Distraught, Erica claims she has no memory of such event, and goes to pray in another room. When Kim tries to console her, Erica reveals rash-like symbols covering her body, and proclaims the group has been marked for death.Kim borrows Jeff's van to pick up coffee and alcohol in town.
At the country store, she gets into an argument with the cashier. While driving away, she swerves to avoid a group of children in the road, and crashes the van into a tree, denting the fender. The children disappear when she exits the van. Later, Kim finds a bloody nail file stuck among the bottles of beer she purchased. The following morning, Jeff looks outside and sees the front end of his van entirely caved in, to the point that it is undriveable; Kim insists that the accident was minor. The group realize Erica is absent, and search the house. They attempt to call her father at his office but are told by his secretary that he has no children.Meanwhile, Tristen's disposition grows increasingly bizarre.
The county sheriff, Cravens, calls Jeff, informing him the other tour group was found disembowled on Coffin Rock, and threatens him. Later while searching through a drawer, Kim finds a set of surveillance dossiers on herself and the others. She confronts Jeff, but he denies knowing the source of them. Shortly after, the group discovers Erica's corpse in a closet.Tristen begins chanting about and speaking backwards; this leads Kim to suggest they play Jeff's tapes in reverse.
Upon doing so, they find the footage shows the group descending into a demonic ritual and frenzied orgy led by Tristen, culminating in the murder of the other tour group at Coffin Rock. When they confront Tristen, she alternately pleads and goads them; Jeff, convinced Tristen is possessed by the Blair Witch, begins filming the confrontation, attempting to elicit a confession in Erica's death. The four follow Tristen to the second floor, where she ties a rope around her neck and taunts Stephen, daring him to push her. In a fit of rage, he pushes her over the balcony, killing her.Later, Jeff, Stephen, and Kim are arrested and interrogated by police. Each claim that a possessed Tristen was responsible. Their accounts are contradicted by various video footage: Security cameras captured Kim murdering the store cashier with her own nail file, while Jeff's home monitors show him, nude, hiding Erica's body in the closet; the Jeff filmed during Tristen's confrontation shows her pleading for her life as they accuse her of being a witch, ending in Stephen pushing her to her death.
Later, funeral mourners arrive up in the woods to remember the other tour group that was murdered.Cast.
Did you hear that? All of you just shut the f.k up! Take it down a notch. It's finally done. What started in 1999 with a unique low-budget, cleverly executed and promoted, and genuinely creepy little indie film, finally ended in 2016 with a ridiculous corporate big-budget hackneyed piece of shhhh.did you hear that? Adam Wingard is considered by many in the horror community to be one of the best young directors coming up right now. Frankly, I've never much been impressed with his work before this and after seeing this travesty I'm even less impressed.
I simply cannot fathom what some of the horror blogs and websites appreciated about this movie when they gave it such rave reviews. I know, as I push past 40 years old, that I am not exactly the target demographic for teenage horror any longer. Being the age that I am, though, makes me also right in the wheelhouse of the generation who adored the original. I was in my late teens when THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT came out. I saw it on a date, as a matter of fact, and was blown away. Having grown up in the era of the slasher film, I was more used to horror being much more blatant and gory.
It had become a mockery of itself by the 90s, though, and we were all so hungry for something fresh to re-kindle horror and this movie took the world by storm. If you are too young to remember, it's release then you really can't understand the impact that it had. Nowadays, indie horror is packed full of found footage, but this was revolutionary to us. Even more, the style of horror was something that my younger, novice horror mind was not yet used to. This was horror that was that was not in your face with a villain or brutal deaths. This was much more psychological, an intense fear-driven journey through into truly frightening territory. I was excited when it was announced that a sequel/remake was coming.
I thought this could legitimately have a chance to be good, but man was I wrong. This movie seems to completely misunderstand everything that made the original terrifying and replace it with dumbed down horror for brainless fans. Then again, when I see the younger reviewers on this site tear apart the original BLAIR WITCH as boring and 'unscary', then maybe I get a better understanding of the adderall-fueled legions that this movie was trying to target. Whether you liked the original film, or not, it definitely starts out with a much more interesting cast.
The trio in the original have their annoying habits, but they are likable people with personalities. The characters in this one are as cardboard as it comes.
The tragic hero looking for lost loved one. The weird stoners. All we're missing is the slut. Now, take these boring people and stick them out in the woods with no building sense of dread, at all.
Replace that with instant terror that takes almost no time to build right, then endless shots of the characters walking around screaming each others names. Now, replace all of the subtlety of the original for loud noises and witches who have now become X-men villains, capable of ripping tents up out of the ground and knocking over trees. All of it leads to a house in the middle of nowhere, with a camera-shaking chase through random scenes of horror, more loud noises and crashes and tantalizing glimpses of a bad monster that we're probably better off having not seen in its' entirety but since viewers seem to be too unimaginative now to see a movie and have to imagine the monster rather than see it, we have to be given something. I'm sounding a lot grumpier than I intended to, but this movie makes me mad. It's an all too perfect example of the sort of garbage horror that gets brought to the big screen while terrific movies go almost unnoticed on some streaming site that a few hundred people get to see. It's a reminder that Hollywood is completely afraid to back original horror and this mockery of the original doesn't deserve the Blair Witch name.
Here I was, expecting a continuation to a truly scary 'lost in the woods' simulator. What I received was a couple of American teenagers getting picked off one by one by the supernatural - as usual in low effort horrors. The Blair Witch Project (1999) was good, because it was trying to be realistic. Heather, Josh and Michael for all their faults weren't lacking chromosomes, unlike the protagonists of the sequel/reboot. James, Lisa, Ashley, Peter, Lane and Talia - each one of them makes 12 y.o children look like master tacticians.
One terribly stupid decision follows another. Let me kick around parts of my tent, because I'm a choleric who can't put it up in 5 minutes. Let me just go gather firewood alone, in the middle of the night, losing line of sight with the camp.
Let me climb this tree, even though I could barely stand 10 minutes ago, because of the fever and leg wounds. See a creepy dolls hanging around? Oh, look at this one - not only it looks like a human being, but also it has some hair of this crying, scared out of her wits girl. I see no reason I shouldn't snap it in half, dealing with a witch and all. When I saw the preparations - GPS, drones, portable radios I thought I was in for a great, well-written story that despite the wonders of technology will show how helpless a man can be versus nature (and a curse).
I wasn't wrong about the last part, but I didn't expect the witch to be a REC-zombie rip-off walking EMP. You know that electronic devices known for their reliability in survival situations? They don't work anymore. F. you, that's why. It's extremely hard to watch. I considered leaving the theater mid-session, because I felt insulted by just watching it, but I managed to endure it to the end.
I felt relief when the last survivor got picked off the same way her friend was few seconds ago. She SAW it happen and then she did the same thing herself nonetheless. 'I'm free now' I thought 'and nothing of value was lost'. The only reason I didn't grade it with 1 star, is because of my respect for Blair Witch Project (1999). Yeah, it started the whole 'found footage' fad, but it was original and scary for someone who lived near the woods for most of his life.
Remember the first Blair witch movie? Yeah, then you don't need to see this. It's an updated version, but without the hype and sound design (oh, there are creepy sounds in this one too, so many in fact that they stop being creepy after a short while) that made the first one successful although not good, and slightly frightening. But sure, if you like to hear people scream names of people you don't really care about, and enjoy the tiresome jump-scares, and shaky cameras, and annoying frightened breathing noises, then you might enjoy this movie.
A lot of hate for this movie, its not really that bad. Yeah most people are right, there are a lot of jump scares which are annoying, and a lot of the suspense of the first movie has been replaced by loud banging noises, but still, I found it fairly enjoyable. Plenty of suspense, and plenty of scenes where I was shaking my head, thinking 'dont go in there' or 'dont do that' with uncomfortable laughs followed. All up, if you liked The Blair Witch then you will like this one as well, if you hated the Blair Witch, then there is no point seeing this movie.(which baffled me in a lot of reviews, people saying they hated the first one and then hated this one???? Why would you bother, of course you wont like this one).
Guys, I saw that movie yesterday. I think that I have to warn you (people who have not seen that and are planning to watch it some time in the future) about two major things: Warning 1: 95% of the movie is night close shots with a shaking camera to either persons or tree leaves and bushes, shots that will not make you understand anything. Warning 2: 95% of the movie script is just calling out loud the names of the heroes: PETER! I would like to write more but I think there is everything included in the two warnings above.
Conclusion: It seems that I eventually lost one and a half hour of my life. Meaningless things. Better be more cautious next time.
I did see the original movie years ago when it was released on DVD, and while I don't remember a lot about it, I do remember that I couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about it. Even at its best, it was more interesting than scary. So I'm not sure why I decided to watch this follow-up, apart from the fact that I got it for free from my local library. Well, I could go on for quite some time about why this follow-up is so unsatisfying, but I'll just list my main complaint about it.
If you have seen the original movie, there is no reason to see this follow-up. It plays more like a remake than a true sequel.
Oh, there is some new technology, and it's a little slicker than the original movie, but it just feels so tired and familiar all the same that you'll be several steps ahead of whatever is going on at any moment. In short, it's an utter waste of time, not just for the audience, but for the people who made it as well.
It's 16 years too late for most people, but this was EXACTLY what I wanted from a Blair Witch sequel. I found it very effective and I loved the story. With the exception of the unethical marketing campaign, it has everything that made the first movie effective and then some. (Yes, I know the marketing is MOSTLY what people found effective about the first film, but that magic can never be captured again, so let it go.) My only complaint is that there were too many false jump scares. If you're not burnt out on found footage and you're open to the idea of a Blair Witch sequel, give it a shot. There's not much else to say without spoilers. I just wanted to stop by and offset some of the hate.
Found footage films are more often than not boring and irritating. Some are good and try and give the audience something different.
Sadly Blair Witch doesn't even attempt to offer anything new. All this movie offers is lots of shots of trees by flashlight and one of my particular irritations - the cheap jump scare. This is the jump scare that has no pay off, such as one character turning round and there is another character that appears out of nowhere and BOOM! - leading to the first character saying 'don't do that!'
If your idea of fun is watching a group of boring people running around in the dark for over an hour, screaming then this is the movie for you. How I laughed at the skinny naked woman briefly seen now and then. Its like a computer game monster.
The Blair Witch seemingly has the ability to bend time at her will. Seemed to work on me too, I thought this turkey would never end. What were people expecting? The same movie as the original, or something extremely different? As for me, I thought Blair Witch was a pretty good modern take on the series. Is it perfect?
Is it the same as the original? Well, they become quite tonally different halfway. In the second half, the new one tries something different at the cost of people moaning about it revealing too much now. I personally am glad the new Blair Witch is not exactly the same. I thought it was logical for the sequel to build up from its simplicity to something more intense. The last 20 minutes in particular was quite nerve-wracking, and the ending is no worse than what the original Blair Witch Project did. I think the problem is that when The Blair Witch Project came out, it was a groundbreaking low budget film that made its scariness effective though simplicity.
The new Blair Witch didn't want to retread the 'exact' same ground the entire time, so they tried to make the second half different to try and appease the people who found the first film boring as hell. The result is mixed on people saying it's too different from the original, or too similar to other found footage films.
I think they got the balance just right here, and the characters for the majority of the time made reasonable decisions and had good equipment with them to justify all of the recording and situations they were in. If there's a significant flaw I can point out with it, then the 'jump scares' were maybe done too much to the point where a character says to stop doing that. However, make no mistake, this movie is pretty terrifying. I still prefer the original though, but of all the found footage movies I've seen, Blair Witch has quite a significant amount of effort put into it.
I fully understand the reasonable popular criticisms of 'Blair Witch' (2016). But I'd be lying if I said I didn't really enjoy it — I'd give it an 8 out of 10.
Yes, it's largely a retread of the first film in 1999. This putative sequel is effectively a remake, given how closely it parallels the original. (And there are a lot of people who hated that movie to start with.) There are other problems too.
A subplot's non sequitur segue into body horror is entirely out of place, for example, and we have at least two characters who are so irritating that we can't care much about their fate. And then there are some missed opportunities involving technology. (Much attention is paid to a drone that the ill-fated protagonists bring along in their trek into the woods, but it is underused later in the story.) Still this still worked for me. I have always really liked found- footage horror movies, and I also like stories featuring local legends. (They're just more engaging to me than yet another slasher film or third-rate, no-budget zombie movie.) And there are a couple of moments of brilliance. The scariest has already been spoiled by the film's trailer (seriously, f. you, Lionsgate marketing department).
But there are other nice touches one is the dread- inducing, reality-bending story arc of the two locals who accompany the main protagonists. (And weren't these two supporting characters the most fun and interesting, anyway?) And we indeed finally get glimpses of the titular Blair Witch! They are brief and few, but they're a damned effective, scary payoff. All in all, this is still an offbeat horror outing in the same vein as the original, and I think the better parts made it a decent viewing. I was surprised when the mysterious woods movie turned out to be a direct Blair Witch Project sequel and this excited me. After literally starting a genre with the original on no budget I figured they'd perform miracles with 5 million dollars! Trouble is, they really didn't.
In fact I'd say they really really really REALLY didn't. Blair Witch follows the same formula as the original, in that the movie is 90 minutes of found footage, poor character development, thinly veiled storyline, shaky camera fleeing and lots and lots of screaming.
If you are expecting further additions to the Blair Witch mythology you will be sorely let down as this is essentially more like a higher budget remake of the original than a sequel and damn near nothing happens yet again. I figured that regardless this could never be as bad as Blair Witch 2: Book Of Shadows but incredibly I was wrong as this is truly unconditionally dire.
James Donahue finds a recently-uploaded video, containing an image which he believes to be his sister Heather who disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while investigating the legend of the Blair Witch. Believing she is still alive, James makes plans to head into the woods, accompanied by friends Peter Jones, Ashley Bennett, and film student Lisa Arlington, who wants to make her own documentary based on James' search. Local residents Talia and Lane, who uploaded the footage from a video tape they found in the woods, join them on their search. Upon entering the woods, Ashley cuts her foot while the group is crossing a shallow creek. Setting up camp for the night, Lane and Talia discuss the disappearance of Heather's film crew, as well as other mysterious occurrences in the region, all of which they ascribe to the Blair Witch. After hearing noises in the woods during the night, and after inexplicably oversleeping until 2.00pm, they find strange stick figures twined together hanging from the trees surrounding their camp.
Unnerved, the four friends elect to head home, despite Lane and Talia's reluctance. Lisa notices a roll of twine in Lane's backpack and accuses him of crafting the stick figures as a prank.
Lane and Talia are kicked out of the group, after admitting to the ruse. After several hours' walking, the four arrive back at their original campsite, their GPS information proving to be inaccurate. Lisa sends up a drone to obtain an aerial fix of their location, but it malfunctions and crashes into the trees. Ashley develops a fever and becomes bedridden. The team is forced to camp again as night falls and Peter goes to gather firewood. After hearing strange sounds, he is chased by an unseen force which causes a tree to collapse, gravely wounding him. James, hearing Peter's cries, searches for him but only finds his flashlight by the collapsed tree.
During the night, James and Lisa hear more sounds outside their tent. Moments later, Lane and Talia emerge looking haggard, claiming they have been wandering in the woods for five or more days without a single sunrise. Believing that he is hallucinating, Lane runs off while Talia begs for food and then sits by the fire and stares blankly. The following morning, James and Lisa are stunned to find that the sun indeed has not risen.
Emerging from their tents, they discover many stick figures, much larger than those crafted by Lane, surrounding their camp. Talia recognizes clumps of her own hair tied to one of the stick figures.
Ashley awakens and, devastated by the news of Peter's disappearance, blames Talia for their plight, spitefully snapping her stick figure in half. Talia then crumples to the ground, her body grossly mangled, twisted and broken, before an invisible presence attacks and causes them to flee in blind panic. Ashley gets separated and removes a strange object out of her leg, inexplicably embedded in her wound. She falls to her death trying to recover the drone, stuck high in a nearby tree. The camera shows her body being dragged out of the frame by an unseen force.
A rainstorm envelops the woods as Lisa and James stumble outside a house which matches the one seen in Lane's video. James looks up and believes he spots his sister in an upstairs window. Despite Lisa's pleas, he enters the house and becomes trapped in an upstairs room. Lisa is terrified by the brief sight of an emaciated entity and runs inside, ending up in the basement. She finds a crazed and now heavily-bearded Lane, who traps her in an underground tunnel. Lisa forces herself through the narrow and muddy crawlspace and emerges back in the basement and stabs Lane in self-defense.
Chased by the entity she glimpsed outside, Lisa runs upstairs, seeing the same reflection in the mirror that James thought was his sister. She reunites with James and they flee to the attic and lock the door behind them.
A bright white light passes through the cracks and windows of the attic before the door is forced open. James tells Lisa to face the corner of the room. He desperately apologizes to Lisa for their fate before the Blair Witch causes him to think that his sister is speaking to him.
James turns around and dies. Lisa uses Lane's camcorder to indirectly view what is behind her and begins walking backwards in the hope she can escape. She hears the witch imitate James' words of apology again and, believing him to be alive, turns around before being attacked off-screen.
The camera abruptly drops to the floor. The screen cuts to black. I was and still am a huge fan of the first original 1999 film and when I saw the previews for this one it seemed the writing was sticking to the original's story which got me excited. The initial sequels back in the early 2000's were terrible which also made me go into this movie with doubts.but boy was I wrong.
This movie is sticking to the roots of limited budget and total isolation which made the first such a great film. Both the original and this new Blair Witch have a unique realistic feel of total isolation which makes the film instantly creepy. There are 3 things which make this a perfect horror movie. Build-up/Anticipation': This movie and also series has perfected building up their horror such as the likes of Alien, which follow the idea of only showing the 'creature/evil entity' only a few times or if at all until the vary end and even in the end only show it a few times.
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This style makes it much more frightening as your uncertain of the whereabouts of it and also when it will appear next. The original 1999 version didn't even show a witch which still left people guessing on whether or not it was actually a witch or possibly something else like a crazy man or themselves turning on each other. But the 2016 version solidifies that it was in fact a witch and also that they were turning on each other in both the 1999 and 2016 groups. Total Isolation': Being completely isolated with no one able to come across you or with no ability to send word for help in a dire situation is scary enough even if its not a horror movie, so its no coincidence that a movie based on people being lost in the woods would garner fear.
The Black hills forest in the movie is isolated in two ways, one is the fear of the local population to venture in it due to its reputation, and two the witches curse on the woods keep small groups trapped by interfering with their navigation and manipulating time. Helplessness': Being utterly helpless or giving up and excepting your situation is helpless is a bitter pill to swallow and will break many people, for example getting your leg trapped under a rock while hiking or being surrounded and besieged during war.
This helplessness becomes more and more apparent as the movie goes on, some of the cast give up and serve the witch and others continue to fight till their deaths. You really see the horror of this helplessness when Lisa is in the tunnel trying to escape and gets stuck, this is a very good scene as she almost breaks down and gives up but keeps fighting. Other characters such as Lane and James give up entirely and serve the witch. Despite us the viewer cheering for Lisa or Heather in the two movies to finally make their way out of the forest it is hopeless and makes true that all who venture alone or in a small group into the Black hills forest will not make it out alive.
Though this one wasn't the box office hit its original was, it still made back 25x its budget, when we have beautiful, terrifying films that sometimes just break even. Backpacking on a story that wasn't even theirs, with characters i'm not even sure we're meant to care about, and decision making that will have you rolling your eyes into the back of your soul, The Blair Witch falls flat on its back, and doesn't get back up. The movie has its moments, sure, where we are truly wondering what is going on in those mystical woods.
It took the idea of the neverending night from many movies in the past but I wasn't even sure if I liked that, as it didn't happen in the first movie at all, but it is a definite visceral scare to think about an everlasting night so at least they tried. I didn't like the whole medusa idea like if you look at it you die. Hmm then what were those guys doing on coffin rock with their entrails gashed out of them all tied together?
THE DECISIONS THESE GUYS MAKE LOL STOP IT. 'I think my seesters in there!' 17 years later in an old broken down house after watching a video where she clearly died. Worst part about this movie was the most scares you got were always jump scares from the people scaring each other because apparently they walk silently and don't know how to tell their friends they're there.
Please stop with the blair witch remakes unless you can really nail it without the gimmicks, I want this hour and a half of my life back. I've never written a review on IMDb before so it says something that I am for this movie b/c i've seen lots of negative reviews. First off, I can't guarantee you'll like it, duh.
Like the original, it's all subjective. Some people like to pick this movie apart. I personally hated the original because it was hard to watch and boring. This one is more 'Hollywood' in that there's better cameras and actors and more visuals. It was far from perfect but I got such a feeling of anxiety and unease unlike any movie has done to me.
That's no B.S. I almost walked out at one scene b/c it was giving me such unease but I'm glad i didn't. I've never wanted a movie to end so that my brain could stop watching the honorific scenario I was presented.
The last thirty minutes, in my opinion, are absolutely hellish. If you love horror you may hate it, but you also may love it. I give it a 9 b/c no movie has made me so uncomfortable.
My girlfriend thought Don't Breath was more horrific so it depends on what you personally find hellish. Give it a shot if you like horror. I went to see this with reservations, after the first ten minutes I thought I was going to get what I'd expected, but as it opened up I was very surprised, a film full of real scares and some truly dark moments. The first film was very unique, and also full of scares, at least until French and Saunders spoofed it that is.
This long overdue follow-up built on the successes of the first and even managed to take the franchise up a notch. I felt they did a great job at not going over the top, the fact that the witch wasn't fully observed was a great idea, it helped maintain a level of suspense and allow for more in the future. The acting was good, and some great special effects, particularly those scenes set in the house. The thing in the foot scene has us all squirming as if we hadn't enough scares to deal with.
Some will argue I'm sure that there were the usual horror stereotypes, but aren't they the reason we all love the genre. The latter part of the film was truly relentless, a must for horror fans.
Blair Witch took the right approach as a follow-up to the original Blair Witch Project. It continues the story as Heather's younger brother, who was four at the time of his sister's disappearance, sets out with a larger search party to find some answers. You don't need to have seen the first film to enjoy this one though: all the backstory is summed up in the first few minutes. As a stand-alone movie, Blair Witch is superior to most mainstream horror being released today and as a sequel, it carries the torch well, offering fans new insight into the hauntings in the Black Hills.
Intriguing elements open up more discussion whether the Witch is real, imagined, or something altogether different. The film even touches on a weird mind-bending alternative that I was not expecting.
Like the the original, nothing is blatantly explained, but left to audiences to interpret. We had a fun and lively discussion after the movie tossing about various theories.
Cons: Blair Witch didn't build a sense of dread the way the original did with its interviews of local townsfolk. After introducing the cast, this story gets us right to the woods. Plus, with a larger cast this time, it was harder to identify with the characters. Overall, this is an outstanding film to get your heart racing. The last half hour is intense, scary, and should have you on the edge of your seat.
It was a lot of fun! I'm not sure why so many people gave this negative reviews. It would have been perfect except for some of the characters were really annoying. But this is genuine horror at its best!
It had tons of jump scares, body horror, atmospheric horror, high tension, and was visually terrifying! Yes it was predictable at times but it's one of those movies where you know what's coming but you hope it won't happen. The jump scares in this movie are enough to give you a heart attack.
And we finally get to see the witch! Who was so scary! Please see this and support this film! Adam Wingard is an amazing director! He has really evolved with each film he does. So don't listen to the nay Sayers and go see this!
This movie was absolute trash. The first hour is nothing but predictable crap. It doesn't even have any scary scenes! People die yeah, but they don't even show how they died they just scream and then their on the floor. Its not scary at all. And there are only TWO scenes where the cameras capture some spooky stuff.
And they turn out to be just 1 second views of the 'witch'. This movie was a major letdown and i am not impressed at all. I was literally doing commentary of some parts of the movie where i would have changed it and added WAY more scary stuff. If you're looking for a movie using home tapes and cameras, i suggest paranormal activity.
It is way better than this movie. I question how this movie got out into theaters. Should have gone straight to Netflix or Hulu. The production value was weak. I loved The Blair Witch Project.
There is something fundamentally unnerving about deep dark woods, you never really know what is hiding just out of site. The BWP understood this, and did a great job building dread in what should have been a beautiful place. It was a slow burn that culminated in one of the scariest endings in the genre. In terms of the forest Blair Witch picks up almost where the BWP left off.
It completely skipped out on the beauty aspect of the woods and went right into building dread. As the characters hike deeper, and deeper the mood gets darker. This is where the Blair Witch really succeeds. By their second day in the woods I wanted them to get out of there.
Once the attacks started I found myself not wanting to even see what was hunting them. By the third act I was getting goosebumps and was tempted to leave the the theater. The creepy setting, the witch, and certain environmental anomalies, combine to create a extremely unnerving experience. If you can get yourself in the shoes of the characters this is one of the scariest movies in a long time. In terms of the 'attacks' the Blair Witch went in a different direction. The BWP kept the witch at a distance.
Blair Witch brings it much closer, and much louder. There is a lot more jump scares, but I don't feel that it takes away from the movie. This is a sequel, it isn't supposed to do exactly what the original did. Blair Witch is more of a modern horror movie, when compared to the slow burn the was the BWP.
Both have their pros and cons but I believe they stand well together. In the first act, the first person viewpoint is really distracting and poorly executed. However once they get out into the woods it gets a lot better. The movie did tread a little too close to the original for my taste. It added to the myth, and did things differently, but I would have liked it to differentiate itself more from the BWP.
In the end it is another group of people trapped in an endless forest who meet very similar fates. Even with some flaws, Blair Witch is a fitting sequel. It's not the original, and it scares the audience in different ways. If you go in expecting something as great as the Blair Witch Project, you will be disappointed.
But as long as you realize that this is a sequel you likely will enjoy it. On the other hand if you never saw the BWP and are just looking for a scary movie you wont go wrong here. Great follow up to The Blair Witch Project. Heathers brother and 5 friends head into the woods to see if he can find his sister. If you loved the original you will love this too. The pure creepiness of the woods and those scary stick figures and piles of stones only add to the tension. And the end is a nerve wrecking ending.
Is Heather trapped there or not? The Rustin Parte house is even scarier now. Just pretend Book Of Shadows doesn't exist. Do you see the witch or not? I love how the movie starts then just speeds up as it goes along. Can't wait for the next movie in the franchise.
I wish they would do a prequel. I think it would be great to show Elly Kedwards story.
You know when a horror movie has a quote saying 'One of the scariest movies ever made' attached to its trailer and then you see it and feel as if you were cheated by that movie because it wasn't actually scary at all? Well, that's so not the case with Blair Witch, the surprise sequel to The Blair Witch Project, a movie that redefined the horror genre back in 1999. Now, I'm no horror aficionado but Blair Witch is one of the most terrifying experiences I've had in the cinema. Twenty-two years after his sister and friends disappeared while documenting their trip to investigate the Blair Witch legend, James Donahue (James Allen McCune) plus three of his college friends and two local residents venture into the same woods to try and find them. Strange occurrences and a strong supernatural presence makes them come to the realisation that the legend of the Blair Witch is true and their lives are now the ones in danger. First things first, I love how nobody knew anything about this being a sequel to The Blair Witch Project until barely two months ago at San Diego Comic-Con, having been filmed and marketed under the name The Woods, leading to a lot of talk and buzz about Blair Witch prior to release. It's great to see a director like Adam Wingard take on the challenge of making a sequel that isn't just a carbon copy of its predecessor, instead choosing to take elements and build upon them to create a sequel that, I think, surpasses the original.
Blair Witch once again plays out in the found footage style that the original made so popular however, with the advancements in technology, there are more devices the filmmakers could use such as drones and go pro cameras rather than just the hand-held models. It makes for a much more intense and fear inducing experience when the cameras used to capture the footage offer more stability. There are a few really good sequences throughout because of this, including a few nailbiting first person shots that will leave you on the edge of your seat. The use of sound too plays a pivotal part in building the audience's fear, Wingard showcasing that he knows how to make an effective horror flick, the moments of silence proving unbearable at times.
The performances and script are always key in the difference between a good and bad horror movie. In Blair Witch, both are good enough for the audience to buy into the story. The stand-outs for me were either James Allen McCune or Callie Hernandez as Lisa, who has to do a lot of terrified close-ups in her role. Blair Witch's strongest asset, like its predecessor, is the fear of the unknown. I said it about The Blair Witch Project and I'll say the same about Blair Witch; it's so good to see a horror movie willing to not blow its load early and keep the audience in the dark as much as the characters.
My pet hate in horror films is jump scares. You could stick a loud and unexpected noise in literally any film and get the same result. That doesn't make it scary. Blair Witch is the worst culprit of this I have ever seen. The actors are poor, the plot is non-existent, and the first half is laughable. However.it does improve a lot. When things turn south it definitely gets quite creepy.
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The high point is the ending. It was like a ghost train ride as they ran around the house, and I loved every minute of it. They shouldn't have shown the witch though. So much more disturbing without a corporeal form.