Blair Witch is a 2016 American found footage psychological horror film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. It is a direct sequel to The Blair Witch Project and stars James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Wes Robinson and Valorie Curry. The film follows a group of college students and their local guides who venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of James Donahue’s sister Heather. Initially, the film’s connection to the Blair Witch franchise was kept secret with filmmakers shooting the film under a fake title.
Movie Details :
- Directed by : Adam Wingard
- Produced by : Keith Calder, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Jessica Wu
- Screenplay by : Simon Barrett
- Starring : James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Wes Robinson, Valorie Curry
- Music by : Adam Wingard
- Cinematography : Robby Baumgartner
- Edited by : Louis Cioffi
- Production company : Room 101, Snoot Entertainment, Vertigo Entertainment
- Distributed by : Lionsgate
Plot :
College students James Donahue, Lisa Arlington, Ashley Bennett and Peter Jones, and local residents Talia and Lane venture into the Black Hills in Maryland to find James’ sister, Heather, who many believe is connected to the Blair Witch legend after her disappearance twenty-two years before. As they travel further into the woods, a series of strange occurrences and supernatural forces reveal that the legend is all too real.
Blair Witch Movie Review :
Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Variety
Setting up a number of promising kinks in the now-standard found-footage formula, as the seemingly spooked forest begins to close in its hapless victims, Blair Witch disappointingly casts most of them aside for a finale that does little to advance the series’ existing mythos.
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Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The Verge
Wingard and Barrett add a creepy body horror element to the mix early on, and thanks to the forceful sound design there’s a greater sense of some massive, physical thing in the forest than the first film ever had — but Blair Witch is at its best when it’s honoring what has come before.
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Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The A.V. Club
Maybe it’s unfair to hold a new Blair Witch to the standards of the old Blair Witch, an experiment very much of its early-web, pre-viral-video time. And yet like a lot of fan-servicing reboots, the film is so intent on reminding viewers of what it’s riffing on—of playing on their nostalgia for the property—that unflattering comparisons are inevitable. Blair Witch will make popcorn fly. But it won’t make anyone believe.
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Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The Wrap
The ideal audience for “Blair Witch” is probably anyone who never saw “The Blair Witch Project,” but that’s not the best target demographic for a found-footage horror movie. This new batch of unhappy campers might be more comfortable with taking selfies than their predecessors, but their wilderness survival skills certainly aren’t any better.
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Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Empire Online
Effectively scary and occasionally inventive, Blair Witch is a solid genre film both helped and hindered by its franchise’s place in cinematic history.
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Rating : 3/5
Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The Guardian
Ultimately, the only thing mustier than the Blair Witch herself is the found-footage format. Nothing about this film feels found. It’s been carefully and manipulatively packaged, marketed and sold to make a buck with a young, impatient audience. If The Blair Witch Project signalled a new dawn of horror, Blair Witch is the loud death rattle of a once exciting sub-genre, disappearing into the darkness.
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Rating : 2/5
Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By New York Daily News
An even bigger crime is that “Blair Witch” isn’t particularly scary, maybe because it’s hard to take any of it seriously when it’s just treading so much similar ground as the first movie. With nothing new to add to the “Blair Witch” mythos, this is one found footage movie that should have been left lost in the woods.
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Rating : 1/5
Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Roger Ebert
What’s scarier—someone yelling boo or the sound of someone, or something, whispering it in the distance? “Blair Witch” has plenty of yelling, but not nearly enough that gets under your skin.
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Rating : 2/5
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Blair Witch (2016) Hollywood Movie Review
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