While the original played so successfully on the idea that it was all real, that's hardly a luxury the sequel can afford. This is very definitely a sequel to the first film and not a remake, referring to the original mythology, not just from the movie but the expanded world of Blair Witch developed online since the original's 1999 release (though the actual sequel, the disappointing Book of Shadows, is skirted over). Armed to the teeth with the latest technology – GPS, a drone, walkie-talkies, a range of top quality cameras with backup batteries and more flashlights than you can shake a stick at – they plan their mission sensibly, starting out the search with a couple of locals who claim to have found an abandoned tape showing blurred footage from a mysterious house that could possibly be Heather.īut once they're in the heart of the forest things start getting weird. With his friends Ashley, Peter, and Lisa, a documentary student, they plan their investigation. It's scary, twisty, fast and fun.ĭecades on and Heather Donahue's brother James, now grown up, is still tortured by the unresolved matter of what happened to his sister who went missing in the Black Hills with her documentary crew all those years ago. Yet for a franchise ripe for rebooting, this absolutely won't disappoint.
But then Blair Witch just isn't competing on the same terms – the original Blair Witch Project remains a landmark in guerilla filmmaking, not to mention marketing.
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