“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” Movie Producers: What idiot said that crap?
They should just go all the way: In the end James becomes pissed off at the Witch's hocus-pocus trash, so he tears off his shirt revealing his sculpted body and yells "Common bitch, lets rumble in the jungle!". "Down with the Sickness" from the band "Disturbed" starts playing while the witch and James fight like people with years of martial arts experience. All this happens while Lisa reads Latin to dispel the witch. James side-thrust kicks the witch into a spike and exclaims "Game over, blair bitch!" He grabs Lisa and they start making out. The sun rises again, que credits.
About that one spoiler.... Time travel in the Blair Witch mythos isn't exactly new. In the Blair Witch special that aired on Sci-fi, they said they found the footage in the foundation of an old building, but it was placed in such a way that it had to have been placed there when the building was being built. Like it got taken back in time. And while I'v never played the Blair Witch PC games, I've read that they include time travel as well. The reason the bodies of the original three were never found was because they where sent into the past.
Hahaha. The way you did the voice for the characters jump scaring each other reminded me of that "Cape Fear" episode of The Simpsons. The one where they're in a boat house and Bart is anxious but trying to go to sleep and Homer bursts in with a knife screaming about brownies, and then comes bursting in again wielding a chainsaw and screaming about his new hockey mask. HAHAHAHA.
LOL funny you say that. For the second jump scare I was going to put the picture of Homer with his new hockey mask and chainsaw but wasn't sure if anyone would get it in the context.
Serious question (not serious) Do the directors/writers now what a witch is? Cause the monster in this movie is more reminiscent of T-Rex or a boss from a silent hill game. Witches are old women who cackle and hunch over, not a 10 foot tall behemoth that can throw trees around like a silver back gorilla.
But wasn't the actual witchy witch also in the movie? I remember, that when James was looking for Heather in the Rusin Parr's house, in one of the rooms for like 1-2 seconds the witch appeared in front of him in person (and clearly it wasn't Heather's ghost)... I'd say that if the forest is cursed by the Elly Kedward's powers, then it'd be reasonable she wouldn't manifest her appearence only as a stereotypical old hag...
director actually said that in this movie you never really see the witch, and that creature is something "else". fans usually speculate that the creature is actually heather from pt.1 that went throught some unexplainable transformation. the witch in this film is probably represented only with abstract white light the protagonists see through the attic in the end. some even say that actually means that there is no witch at all, but that those woods are hounted with aliens instead. but everything is open to interpretation, and that is why this movie is fucking good, and showing the tall creature for 2 seconds didn't ruin the mistery at all. do your research, cunt.
I feel like you'd be the type of guy to have a podcast/Skype call just debating/plotting about the original Blair Witch Project for hours. Good work, man. Glad you like the original as much as I do.
Is it possible that the movie has been "Book of Shadow-ed" - i.e. Adam Wingard's original version, while still a found footage film, might not've included the additional demonic screams, the constant jump scares, or the Blair Witch herself. Those seem like studio head notes.
Its very possible. Many of the things I didn't like about the film could have been done in post. (ridiculously loud noises, overuse of shaky cam, horrible edits, digital noise)
I actually really liked this movie. It was familiar, but had some new elements and expanded on some things from the original. It had what I wanted, and it was fun. I'd go for another Blair Witch film after this, and I'd like to see some more of this universe and this forest. I really didn't care for the jumpscares though. They can fuck right off.
I really enjoyed it too though now they have re-established the universe, if they do a sequel to this I think they need to evolve the series more and change things up. Repeating it yet again would become redundant. Do a prequel or something set in oldie times showing the events of coffin rock or something.
I think you have missed the most brilliant aspect of this film, it is not the theatrical release that is truly terrifying found footage, but the behind the scenes features about the uninspired decisions behind the film. I think you will find the screenwriter explaining how cool his ideas were, especially chilling.
You make many solid points here. At the end of the film I walked out of the theater feeling quite underwhelmed. My major gripe was I could not have cared less about any of the characters. They were so bland and generic. The original made me care what happened to the involved characters and the tension and psychological distortion only grew as the film progressed. Not terrible I suppose, just didn't live up to what I was hoping for.
I think instead of directly showing the supernatural stuff, they should have brought back Josh and have him as the villain. Say that he started hearing voices like Rustin Parr and that he killed Heather and Mike at the end of the first film (which could be why Mike was standing in the corner at the end.) And they shouldn't have had any time travel stuff (the stuff with the tape traveling through time didn't even make sense. The guy who posted the youtube video only had that short clip, but when the tapes and cards were "found" they had the complete footage. How does that work?) There were elements that I liked, and I'm glad they incorporated the Blair Witch lore (Eileen Treacle, Coffin Rock, Rustin Parr) but yeah, overall it kind of disappoints.
correct. also note the way he mocks the character by saying "why you believe in dis stuff?" in a stereotypical black dude voice (even though the character he's representing sounded nothing like that--but he is black! so... ?).
Yeah, showing the ongoing complete and total misunderstanding about why people have and fly confederate flags. People are apparently supposed to think "he has a confederate flag? Well he must hate black people and support slavery", but of course that's not the case at all. Actually, a person flying a confederate flag, has nothing to do with slavery or black people! But then again, people these days think the whole Civil War was fought over slavery and that that was the reason for all of it, so.......
The trailer for this "movie" told me everything I needed to know. This review only re-inforced my impression of the movie. I wonder if they were trying to go for a record in how many jump scares it`s possible to do in a 2 minute trailer?
Excellent review! I literally just got home from the movie, and the first thing I had to do was watch your review (avoid all reviews before I got to see it); even when we disagree, I always find your opinions and views excellent and interesting. I am happy to see that other massive BW fans were as letdown as I was by this.
Showing the witch makes the entire film pointless, especially when it's just a generic demon design almost akin to a Pumpkin Head rip off. If you're going to show the witch then why not stay true to the brief description given in the original of an extremely elderly woman who was covered in thick animal hair all over her arms, legs and chest.
AMEN. Not to mention the part of her feet never touching the ground. What I always pictured in my head from that description beats anything some lazy studio could throw together on a computer.
Yeah the only problem is Hollywood would interpret "her feet never touched the ground" as her flying all over the place in awful CGI instead of the subtle image of her just sort of hovering less than an inch above the ground.
SpeedBoost the director said that the monster we saw isn't the witch which makes me think the forest itself is the witch since she can change anything there
I don't know how much this directors opinion really matters as they've completely screwed up the simple Blair Witch lore established by it's creator's with this mess of a movie. If that awful monster isn't the witch that's even worse, as that means it's just a monster that they threw in to the movie for no reason. What made the first movie so effective was the ambiguity of what was happening, this new version is worse than The Book of Shadows as it introduces terrible cliches and a convoluted story instead of creating actual scares.
Gee, a remake of a popular horror franchise with tons of hype behind it failing to meet expectations because it's a needless rehash hackjob by otherwise competent directors/writers? I've never seen this happen before.
To be fair, there's time travel in the first movie too. That's how Rustin Parr's house (which was demolished decades ago) is still standing in the film, and probably why they couldn't find the road (it didn't exist in 1941).
It was never said for sure though if it was Rustin Parr's house or that there was time travel, it was open to interpretation. In this, the time travel element is idiotic. Spoilers The video they see in the beginning is the one they are shooting. So the witch has them send the video they shoot in the future into the past so they lure themselves into the woods.
One thing that bothered me about this movie immediately from the trailer was how it seemed like there would be a lot of obvious supernatural stuff being thrown around the whole time, like that scene where the tent flies up in the air, and I feel that one of the primary things that made the first film so effective was that nothing shown couldn't be explained scientifically. It gave the film a sense of authenticity that's still rare in found footage movies. The second film managed this as well by not letting the characters capture anything obviously supernatural on video and accompanying it with the statement: "video never lies, but film does".
There were supernatural elements in the original but they were very dialed down as to make them ambiguous. Was it a witch or something else? In this, there was no doubt whatsoever and they made that clear pretty much the entire film.
Its much worse in this. SPOLIERS The footage they captured was the footage they saw in the beginning of the movie. So, the witch made them send the footage of themselves in the future to themselves in the past in order to get them into the woods.
We're talking about a witch that can manipulate the woods to make people travelling in a straight line for in circles. I'm sure recreating a house would be within her abilities as well.
I always turn off when you go into your spoiler zone, but this seems like such a let down that I let the video run. So dissapointing. Blair Witch 3 should really have been a film like The Witch. I actually said on the IMDB boards that I thought it worked as a prequel to Blair Witch.
It's part of a Hollywood trend that's going on right now that I compare to the "rumors" about Spielberg actually directing Poltergeist. They bring someone with a modicum of indy cred like Garreth Edwards to a project like "Jurassic World" or Star Wars 50 and suddenly the fans are appeased that a "good director" is on the film so maybe it isn't reheated garbage. Then, sure enough, every time, that original director's voice is completely gone and the reboot is a studio produced scene-for-scene, completely safe hack job. Stop supporting these financially and they'll go away.
I know no insider information, but based on what you said, it sounds like this had a lot of studio interferences. I loved You're Next. It's one of my favorite modern horror movies. This is such a shame. Can't wait to see his next film
I’ll say this: My theatrical experience of watching Blair Witch was FUCKING terrifying. The 5.1 surround involving the Woods in the night felt so claustrophobic and every SNAP and brush of a twig and leaf made me jump, because the foley department did their job TOO well. It reached a point where I literally felt cold watching the movie as if I was out in the dark deep woods at night. That experience stays with me to this day and taught me two things: Theater experience is unparalleled And AMBIENCE is fucking key.
I agree with you completely, I've loved the lore and had a fascination in the blair witch since i was ten and saw it. I had a slew of the young adult novals about the drowning ghosts and the murders. And I write I've been a writer since the 6th grade and I have so many ideas from the lore that could be drawn from the blair witch, there's so many angles you can go to with a lineage and lore like this and I felt like they wasted and amazing opportunity. That being said, Barret on Twitter said that the figure we see in the forest and chasing the girl in-fact WAS NOT the blair witch, but in fact a "victim" of the witch heavily implying maybe it's heather. Heather was originally supposed to make an appearance by the actress wanted nothing to do with the project....so idk. If the thing we saw wasn't the witch then maybe it could be argued we still arent sure if she's a presence or an actual being, or spirit.
I love your reviews! Yes to everything you mentioned and also: Blair Witch Project worked so well because it looked real and felt real, Blair Witch felt incredibly superficial. Every character was a stereotype played by perfectly-coiffed-CW-looking actors. Every word out of their mouth felt scripted. Painful dialogue. So painful.
Seeing the trailer, i had a gut feeling it wouldn't be good. I saw it with some friends when it first came out and none of us were scared by it. Agreed, the jump scares were pretty laughable and, me personally, i never got invested. So just like Blair Witch 2, this is another movie they should have just left alone. They should have just done that one movie, and just let people guess what happened. Instead...well, at least they gave us a good laugh.
I'm noticing a mild trend for this movie. Reviewers who normally like these movies dislike it and those that usually dislike it are favorable towards it.
I agree with your review, but there is one thing I am confused on. Outside of two quick shots towards the end (witch chasing Lisa and some kind of stick monster behind Lisa at the end), where else did we see the actual witch? I remember James chasing a woman who he thought was suppose to be Heather.
When you spend 1 and a half minutes talking about how much you love the director/series/actor I know that there is gonna be a shitstorm coming. Keep up the good work!
The brother-sister dynamic of the film doesn't make much sense. Peter was supposed to be 4 when Heather disappeared. He remember a little bit about her, but he wouldn't know her enough to know it's her in the house at the end of the movie.
Except for the fact that in-universe, they have found the footage shot by the three filmmakers and thus eventually after the police did nothing about the supernatural occurrences and wrote it off as a hoax and finally released the film footage out of police custody as evidence, Heather's Mother went to Artisan to put the footage out into theaters hoping someone out there could figure out what happened. So in a sense he WOULD have seen that movie and would recognize his sister's voice.
This review is pretty spot on. I'll say this, I loved the last 10 minutes of it. the witch was crazy looking. I still have faith in Adam Wingard, YN, TG were fantastic movies. keep up the great work! one last thing, what does facing the corner help them out with? and when they found their friends facing the wall.
The movie essentially tried to get across that you CANNOT look the Blair witch or whatever it was IN THE EYE. Cornering yourself would keep it away. Not gonna lie, it KINDA makes sense but by that logic it turns from Blair Witch to BIRDCAGE.
I agree that it was dumb that the girl with an injured foot decided to climb a tree in the dark. However if you were in a very desperate situation and saw a possible glimmer of hope in the drone being able to find you a way out, maybe you would make that dangerous choice to climb up and try free it.
The time travel didn't really bother me. The first movie had the scene where they walked all day just to find themselves at the same river crossing. If there is no witch, they just got turned around and didn't realize it. If there is a witch, that could imply that she power over reality. The second movie, the characters kept seeing visions, usually moving backwards. Plus there's the whole aspect of truth only existing on film. So having the witch cause her victims experience time at different speeds, directions, etc. I didn't think it felt that out of place.
The tall skinny monster you see alot isn't the witch. The director stated that she is a privious victim. And it's logical to think that she is actually Heather having to have gone through the same torture as kelly edward.
No we never see the witch Wingard himself as stated that the thing at the end of the film everyone says is/mistakes for the witch IS NOT ELLY KEDWARD/THE BLAIR WITCH
If you notice when the Heather screaming it wasn't the same scream as the first one she was screaming mike on the first one this one she is just screaming
When i heard there was a new BW film coming out i was really excited and looking forward to it, i read all the early reviews saying it was really scary and a fitting sequel. Everything looked so promising. What made the first one so great (among many other things) is that they kept just the essentials, it was very minimal. As Heather herself said in the BWP she didn't want any cheese. Well, sadly this outing for the Blair Witch is saturated with high-fat cheese. It really is just another generic big-budget studio horror-movie like any other with lots of noise, and sound effects, fast panning and editing, it has zero subtlety which is one of THE things which made the first so eerie and creepy.. It is in no way the spiritual sequel to The BWP As mentioned in the video the character of Peter was a major flaw in this film, such an obnoxious, one dimensional character who's only role it seems was to mock and laugh at everything, the guy was a total and utter twat. Such a major disappointment. The directors of the original must know that this was an opportunity wasted and i'd like to have seen them do a 'proper' CHEESE-FREE sequel, hopefully one day we'll see that film, not anytime soon i expect.
I love both the original and this film. Is it perfect? No. Is it the most original? In many ways, no. But I enjoyed it for being similar, yet the opposite to the original. Also, it did meet my expectations, which wasn't what many had, I guess.
I didn't hate the first movie, but I didn't think it was scary, except for the end when they got to the house. I guess it didn't scare me because I don't believe in ghosts. I don't need to see any monster, to be scared. The Babadook was a great scary movie. Haven't seen the new one yet, but I've seen the other two, and I'm curious.
the first one was something that you had to be there in a movie theater, in 1999. If you are watching for the 1st time in 2016 in your cell phone, you probably will not like it. I love it, reminds me of a simpler time.
With regards to the jump scares: One of the main characters has a line stating that the other characters need to stop popping into frame. It's almost like they were playing the jump scares straight and then in post recorded a new line to turn them into a joke.
I think I've seen at least 150 maybe even 200 of your posts and each one has, at most, 15-20 dislikes. This has 60. People must have really liked this schlock. I'm with you...big cash in, mostly trash. Mildly entertaining at best. BTW totally wanna see more good-bad games, hook us up bro. Love your stuff, keep it up.
Totally agree with this review. Also, were they implying aliens in this film? The weird parasite in the woman's leg, the lights outside of the house and the long-limbed CGI thing in the woods?
I enjoyed the movie, although, the jump scares were pretty annoying, and the digital noise and "malfunctioning" of the ear cams was also frustrating. Im not sure what direction they could have gone with this film to make it as scary as the first with out it being a complete copy. I suppose if they left out the visual of the witch and maintained the 'is there really a witch, or are they just losing their minds' approach, it would have been more genuine and played with your mind more.
I love your reviews and for once i have to say I disagree for the most part. Bar the added noise to heather's death, and the constant stupid fake scares in the mid third and the audio noises that were trying to be scares. I actually found the movie genuinely terrifying. The scene with the breaking of the stick man was a severe wtf as well as the whole ending shock of the footage. Sure the witch showed off more of her powers but that was foreshadowed by the stories Laine was telling as well as the sign on the tree next to the gate, but you only actually see the Witch twice and that wasnt very clear either, but her appearance again was mentioned by Laine :) Also Pete's antagonism with Laine and Taila wasnt just for no reason, he actually justifiably felt that they were praying on his friends belief in the legend and his sister. He may not have believed, but he was there for his friend no matter what
Actually, Wingard said after the fact, that the thing you see throughout the final act is NOT the witch. The thing in the house had its limbs stretched out like the legend, so I guess people are thinking that was Heather? Who had her body manipulated by the witch and turned into her minion? I dunno, I liked the movie a lot more than you did. Mainly cuz the final act was super tense and fun. And I liked the quick glimpses of the creature. You still made good points about the negative aspects of it tho. I really wanna know what that damn long limbed bastard is! I also believe Wingard stated it was one of the witch’s victims. I also thought the manipulation of time was a nice addition too. And that tunnel scene! That was intense.
I honestly didn't find the first one scary at all. However, I can't deny how happy I was that an original film idea, made independently for less than $200,000, did so amazingly well. I find, however, that few horror movies truly frighten me. Or rather, few feature length ones. Most of the films I find terrifying are of the short film variety, and of them, only a handful. The only two feature films, oddly enough, that truly frightened/disturbed me, as in, they got in my head and wouldn't leave, were the original The Haunting, and Mary Reilly.
Wait... They brought a drone to help keep them from getting lost? Have they... not heard of GPS? GPS is accessible anywhere on Earth, in any weather conditions -- even when mobile internet isn't available to superimpose GPS coordinates over a graphical map, you can access latitude-and-longitude coordinates to guide you wherever you need to go. Way back in the 90's, my family had an early GPS unit, and you'd just 'mark' your current coordinates in it before going on a hike and, that way, if you got lost, you could just walk back toward those coordinates...
Thank you for being in the school that once you see the monster it's no longer scary. House on Haunted Hill remake was the scariest movie I'd ever seen, all the way up till its comical black mist ending.
i didn't hate the first one but I did almost fall asleep back in 1999. I thought this was an improvement. I liked how it played with mythology but overall this was disappointing as an Adam Wingard movie.
Yeah, my parents don't like the first Blaire Witch because you never see it. The thing that confuses me is the fact that my dad loves the classic Frankenstein and Dracula films.
There's a reason for that. Those people like being spoon fed lazy uninspired loud noise jump scare bullshit and don't want to actually think about what their watching. Those people are brain-dead morons who are the reason the horror genre is so decimated these days.
The Blair Witch went from... psychologically messing with people and making them do things on their own, to suddenly JUMPSCARE CITY with bright lights that look like a UFO landed outside the house instead of letting organic scenes flow of people talking like real people as they struggle with a situation beyond their control. This is how the original movie would've been made if the Studios interfered like they did Book of Shadows.
A lot of people I hung out with back in 1999 hated The Blair Witch Project. They all said the same thing "Its just three people in the woods the whole movie.". I thought the movie was scary as balls.
That makes me so very sad. I had high hopes for this movie, and was genuinely looking forward to seeing it. Oh well. Question though, where did you see the directors cut of Blair witch 2?
Well I have watched your exploring blair witch 2, and I remember seeing it in theaters just being confused. after your exploring it really opened my eyes to what the project could have/should have been. what a shame that this was a dud. I had hoped maybe they would have reinvigorated the franchise instead of what they did. truly disappointed.
But I’d like to know what your ideas would’ve been to make it better or to not make it a complete rehashing this story has a specific setting and specific things that would need to be kept the same in the lore it’s easy to say it’s bad (which is true it’s not as great as the 1st but i don’t think it could be) but it’s a lot harder to say what could’ve been done better
In Jaws they wanted to show the shark alot. But it broke down ALOT. Spielberg figured out, less is more. It's scarier what you DON'T see. Your imagination filling in the blanks could be scarier than what you see.
I actually liked the part where the youtube uploader guy and girl reunited with the group -had a scifi vibe - there should have been so much more than jump scares - was the movie INCREDIBLY loud for anyone else? a persons voice in this movie was the same audio level as rustling in the distance
I just watched this again and I enjoy the Drone footage and I enjoy the footage from the ear cameras how they matched where everyone was looking and accounted for
Another great review. Congrats on 100,000 subscribers. I know you'll hit it soon. As for the things you remembered after recording. "All of 1 day", that Lane guy said he was out there for 5 days so I guess that's what he gets for making fake stick men.
I just camed back from watching it and it is a really disappointing film to the fans of the original!! I think its time for you to review the Phantasm sequels!!
The writer supposedly said that wasn't the witch we saw in the movie leading some people to theorize that it was Heather in demon form being controlled by the witch . I said in another video that i feel there was a parallel dimension where the witch resides and once you cross over you can't find your way out the woods, it's like that reverse world they mentioned in Blair 2 . I was thinking the light was a door to the light side,/ our physical world opening up, it's the only way to escape the realm of the blair witch , which that crazy guy and his girlfriend did but only because the witch let them . 5 days in that realm is the equivalent to one day on the real side, maybe it's like a gravity thing , how on other planets where a day for us may be one month there but instead of physical gravity it's a spiritual gravity . I loved it , def not as scary as the original but i was still totally invested in what was happening and i enjoyed how they expanded on the myth . It could be a film that people learn to appreciate as more time passes much like the second movie . Hope there are some deleted scenes or a longer cut of the film , i have a feeling there were some key elements that were cut out .
In 2012 a Q&A with the original cast of The Blair Witch Project, actor Michael Williams who played "Mike" mentioned how the executives at Artisan didn't like how the movie ended and decided to do a few reshoots. They tried multiple endings, from having Mike covered in blood, too having him being nailed to a giant stickman. he mentioned that this was the studio's attempt to have a more hollywood ending.... but the directors were insistent on keeping what they originally shot. It seems the 2016 sequel was under complete control of the studio. it's evident by the over-the-top special effects and treating the viewer like they are a complete idiot with having to re-explain the origin story throughout the movie .
The 'found footage' genre has been done to death now. Its time to put an end to it NOW!! Don't get me wrong, there's been some decent ones (Project Almanac, the first Paramormal Activity, Chronicle to name but a few) but its lost that spark.
That wasn't the witch that was a victim of the witch which is implied and speculated to be Heather whom had the same treatment as the Blair witch did when she died limbs outstretched and left in the woods. It's Heather chasing the people and knocking shit over. For someone who loves the Blair witch lore you sure missed a huge point that makes this movie awesome
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
Movie Producers: What idiot said that crap?
So completely true.
Make Horror Lovecraft Again
That's part of what made to first one so affecting. They did SO much with SO little.
This can be further condensed. The ultimate unknown is death.
So every fear is the fear of death when broken down.
They should just go all the way: In the end James becomes pissed off at the Witch's hocus-pocus trash, so he tears off his shirt revealing his sculpted body and yells "Common bitch, lets rumble in the jungle!". "Down with the Sickness" from the band "Disturbed" starts playing while the witch and James fight like people with years of martial arts experience. All this happens while Lisa reads Latin to dispel the witch. James side-thrust kicks the witch into a spike and exclaims "Game over, blair bitch!" He grabs Lisa and they start making out. The sun rises again, que credits.
Bad ass!!! Lmao!!!
ahahah
You forgot the part when the witch has him pinned and heather comes out of no where and power stomps her until he's free
That would have been actually kind of amazing.
strydom666 and peter comes back to life since that dude was funny as fuck
Your re-enactment of the jump scares had me in tears 😂
About that one spoiler....
Time travel in the Blair Witch mythos isn't exactly new. In the Blair Witch special that aired on Sci-fi, they said they found the footage in the foundation of an old building, but it was placed in such a way that it had to have been placed there when the building was being built. Like it got taken back in time.
And while I'v never played the Blair Witch PC games, I've read that they include time travel as well. The reason the bodies of the original three were never found was because they where sent into the past.
Soooooooo so the witch is a weeping angel???
Heck, wasn’t the cabin thatself supposed to have burned down? The ending’s impossible enough already.
Hahaha. The way you did the voice for the characters jump scaring each other reminded me of that "Cape Fear" episode of The Simpsons. The one where they're in a boat house and Bart is anxious but trying to go to sleep and Homer bursts in with a knife screaming about brownies, and then comes bursting in again wielding a chainsaw and screaming about his new hockey mask. HAHAHAHA.
LOL funny you say that. For the second jump scare I was going to put the picture of Homer with his new hockey mask and chainsaw but wasn't sure if anyone would get it in the context.
@@GoodBadFlicksomg you should have, that would have been hilarious 😂😂😂
"if you like jumpscare filled found footage films..."
...people like those?
Serious question (not serious) Do the directors/writers now what a witch is? Cause the monster in this movie is more reminiscent of T-Rex or a boss from a silent hill game. Witches are old women who cackle and hunch over, not a 10 foot tall behemoth that can throw trees around like a silver back gorilla.
The witch is actually Harambe
But wasn't the actual witchy witch also in the movie? I remember, that when James was looking for Heather in the Rusin Parr's house, in one of the rooms for like 1-2 seconds the witch appeared in front of him in person (and clearly it wasn't Heather's ghost)... I'd say that if the forest is cursed by the Elly Kedward's powers, then it'd be reasonable she wouldn't manifest her appearence only as a stereotypical old hag...
Agreed. The witch was way overpowered, to the point of ridiculousness. Made it silly instead of scary.
director actually said that in this movie you never really see the witch, and that creature is something "else". fans usually speculate that the creature is actually heather from pt.1 that went throught some unexplainable transformation. the witch in this film is probably represented only with abstract white light the protagonists see through the attic in the end. some even say that actually means that there is no witch at all, but that those woods are hounted with aliens instead. but everything is open to interpretation, and that is why this movie is fucking good, and showing the tall creature for 2 seconds didn't ruin the mistery at all. do your research, cunt.
@@imaretard6876 Your name..........just wow! I understand now
I feel like you'd be the type of guy to have a podcast/Skype call just debating/plotting about the original Blair Witch Project for hours. Good work, man. Glad you like the original as much as I do.
Is it possible that the movie has been "Book of Shadow-ed" - i.e. Adam Wingard's original version, while still a found footage film, might not've included the additional demonic screams, the constant jump scares, or the Blair Witch herself. Those seem like studio head notes.
Its very possible. Many of the things I didn't like about the film could have been done in post. (ridiculously loud noises, overuse of shaky cam, horrible edits, digital noise)
youre next is one of those sleepers. i watched it simply bcuz i was too high to change the channel, and ended up loving the movie lol
I actually really liked this movie. It was familiar, but had some new elements and expanded on some things from the original. It had what I wanted, and it was fun. I'd go for another Blair Witch film after this, and I'd like to see some more of this universe and this forest. I really didn't care for the jumpscares though. They can fuck right off.
I liked the film and how the forest itself gave off this twilight zone kind of alternate universe vibe
I completely agree with you. It expanded on the first one pretty well. The jump scares were the one thing I wasnt fond of. Besides that I liked it.
I really enjoyed it too though now they have re-established the universe, if they do a sequel to this I think they need to evolve the series more and change things up. Repeating it yet again would become redundant. Do a prequel or something set in oldie times showing the events of coffin rock or something.
God damn I love your style of reviewing and editing. Thank you for creating this channel and producing a hell of a lot of content. You are the man.
Thank you so much!
I think you have missed the most brilliant aspect of this film, it is not the theatrical release that is truly terrifying found footage, but the behind the scenes features about the uninspired decisions behind the film. I think you will find the screenwriter explaining how cool his ideas were, especially chilling.
I was more scared of the behind the scenes than the actual film itself.
Sleep with the lights on, my good friend...
Any idea where to find that cuz that sounds interesting.
You make many solid points here. At the end of the film I walked out of the theater feeling quite underwhelmed. My major gripe was I could not have cared less about any of the characters. They were so bland and generic. The original made me care what happened to the involved characters and the tension and psychological distortion only grew as the film progressed. Not terrible I suppose, just didn't live up to what I was hoping for.
I think instead of directly showing the supernatural stuff, they should have brought back Josh and have him as the villain. Say that he started hearing voices like Rustin Parr and that he killed Heather and Mike at the end of the first film (which could be why Mike was standing in the corner at the end.) And they shouldn't have had any time travel stuff (the stuff with the tape traveling through time didn't even make sense. The guy who posted the youtube video only had that short clip, but when the tapes and cards were "found" they had the complete footage. How does that work?)
There were elements that I liked, and I'm glad they incorporated the Blair Witch lore (Eileen Treacle, Coffin Rock, Rustin Parr) but yeah, overall it kind of disappoints.
Sounds like a good concept. Better than the film we ended up getting. There's a theory out there that says that Josh and Mike murdered Heather.
Now the director can go back to making good original movies...
100% Agreed. Sadly his next 2 movies are remakes.
I'm so sad....
Have you seen I Saw the Devil (Korean)?
death note is not a remake... it's an adaptation
He's directing the remake I Saw The Devil.......I know he's good, but he's not topping the original and Death Note adaption meh, I will wait and see.
ahahha love how you explain the redundant jump scare. so funny XD
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4:20 I thought Peter was hostile because of the Confederate Flat.
correct. also note the way he mocks the character by saying "why you believe in dis stuff?" in a stereotypical black dude voice (even though the character he's representing sounded nothing like that--but he is black! so... ?).
Yeah, showing the ongoing complete and total misunderstanding about why people have and fly confederate flags. People are apparently supposed to think "he has a confederate flag? Well he must hate black people and support slavery", but of course that's not the case at all. Actually, a person flying a confederate flag, has nothing to do with slavery or black people!
But then again, people these days think the whole Civil War was fought over slavery and that that was the reason for all of it, so.......
I think I'm the only person who really likes this film
I loved it.
I thought it was okay. Not terrible (I’ve seen worse movies), but it was passable
It was good. Not groundbreaking or anything but good.
Do you like the first one too?
You’re not. It ruled!
They showed the Witch "a lot"? Did I miss something, because I only saw her for MAYBE three seconds out of the whole movie.
You missed something.
A FEW times.
I counted at least five times you got a good look at her, in the woods and especially at the climax of the film.
According to guys behind the movie that wasn't the witch but tormented victim made to do her bidding.
rafioooo exactly
I liked it tbh
@@rafioooo, pretty sure that's supposed to be Heather driven mad.
The trailer for this "movie" told me everything I needed to know. This review only re-inforced my impression of the movie. I wonder if they were trying to go for a record in how many jump scares it`s possible to do in a 2 minute trailer?
Excellent review! I literally just got home from the movie, and the first thing I had to do was watch your review (avoid all reviews before I got to see it); even when we disagree, I always find your opinions and views excellent and interesting. I am happy to see that other massive BW fans were as letdown as I was by this.
Thanks! I left the theater completely bummed. I was so excited for this, I can't believe how bad they fumbled.
I 100% agree about the excessive jump scares. It just got annoying after a while.
Showing the witch makes the entire film pointless, especially when it's just a generic demon design almost akin to a Pumpkin Head rip off.
If you're going to show the witch then why not stay true to the brief description given in the original of an extremely elderly woman who was covered in thick animal hair all over her arms, legs and chest.
AMEN. Not to mention the part of her feet never touching the ground. What I always pictured in my head from that description beats anything some lazy studio could throw together on a computer.
Yeah the only problem is Hollywood would interpret "her feet never touched the ground" as her flying all over the place in awful CGI instead of the subtle image of her just sort of hovering less than an inch above the ground.
SpeedBoost Lol yeah you're probably right about that.
SpeedBoost the director said that the monster we saw isn't the witch which makes me think the forest itself is the witch since she can change anything there
I don't know how much this directors opinion really matters as they've completely screwed up the simple Blair Witch lore established by it's creator's with this mess of a movie.
If that awful monster isn't the witch that's even worse, as that means it's just a monster that they threw in to the movie for no reason.
What made the first movie so effective was the ambiguity of what was happening, this new version is worse than The Book of Shadows as it introduces terrible cliches and a convoluted story instead of creating actual scares.
Gee, a remake of a popular horror franchise with tons of hype behind it failing to meet expectations because it's a needless rehash hackjob by otherwise competent directors/writers? I've never seen this happen before.
To be fair, there's time travel in the first movie too. That's how Rustin Parr's house (which was demolished decades ago) is still standing in the film, and probably why they couldn't find the road (it didn't exist in 1941).
It was never said for sure though if it was Rustin Parr's house or that there was time travel, it was open to interpretation. In this, the time travel element is idiotic.
Spoilers
The video they see in the beginning is the one they are shooting. So the witch has them send the video they shoot in the future into the past so they lure themselves into the woods.
What. Lol. Yeah, okay, I see what you mean. Thanks for saving me the cost of admission.
One thing that bothered me about this movie immediately from the trailer was how it seemed like there would be a lot of obvious supernatural stuff being thrown around the whole time, like that scene where the tent flies up in the air, and I feel that one of the primary things that made the first film so effective was that nothing shown couldn't be explained scientifically. It gave the film a sense of authenticity that's still rare in found footage movies.
The second film managed this as well by not letting the characters capture anything obviously supernatural on video and accompanying it with the statement: "video never lies, but film does".
There were supernatural elements in the original but they were very dialed down as to make them ambiguous. Was it a witch or something else? In this, there was no doubt whatsoever and they made that clear pretty much the entire film.
Since Rustin Parrs house burned down in the 40s time travel was kind of insinuated in the original too.
Its much worse in this.
SPOLIERS
The footage they captured was the footage they saw in the beginning of the movie. So, the witch made them send the footage of themselves in the future to themselves in the past in order to get them into the woods.
We're talking about a witch that can manipulate the woods to make people travelling in a straight line for in circles. I'm sure recreating a house would be within her abilities as well.
I always turn off when you go into your spoiler zone, but this seems like such a let down that I let the video run. So dissapointing. Blair Witch 3 should really have been a film like The Witch. I actually said on the IMDB boards that I thought it worked as a prequel to Blair Witch.
"The Witch" is a totally different level of filmmaking. My favorite modern-horror since "The Babadook" and "Under The Skin".
It's part of a Hollywood trend that's going on right now that I compare to the "rumors" about Spielberg actually directing Poltergeist. They bring someone with a modicum of indy cred like Garreth Edwards to a project like "Jurassic World" or Star Wars 50 and suddenly the fans are appeased that a "good director" is on the film so maybe it isn't reheated garbage. Then, sure enough, every time, that original director's voice is completely gone and the reboot is a studio produced scene-for-scene, completely safe hack job. Stop supporting these financially and they'll go away.
I know no insider information, but based on what you said, it sounds like this had a lot of studio interferences. I loved You're Next. It's one of my favorite modern horror movies. This is such a shame. Can't wait to see his next film
It was so bizarre. It felt like they made the movie for people who hated the original. It was all the things crammed in that fans didn't want.
I’ll say this:
My theatrical experience of watching Blair Witch was FUCKING terrifying. The 5.1 surround involving the Woods in the night felt so claustrophobic and every SNAP and brush of a twig and leaf made me jump, because the foley department did their job TOO well.
It reached a point where I literally felt cold watching the movie as if I was out in the dark deep woods at night.
That experience stays with me to this day and taught me two things:
Theater experience is unparalleled
And AMBIENCE is fucking key.
I agree with you completely, I've loved the lore and had a fascination in the blair witch since i was ten and saw it. I had a slew of the young adult novals about the drowning ghosts and the murders. And I write I've been a writer since the 6th grade and I have so many ideas from the lore that could be drawn from the blair witch, there's so many angles you can go to with a lineage and lore like this and I felt like they wasted and amazing opportunity. That being said, Barret on Twitter said that the figure we see in the forest and chasing the girl in-fact WAS NOT the blair witch, but in fact a "victim" of the witch heavily implying maybe it's heather. Heather was originally supposed to make an appearance by the actress wanted nothing to do with the project....so idk. If the thing we saw wasn't the witch then maybe it could be argued we still arent sure if she's a presence or an actual being, or spirit.
love your review as always. your rant on jumpscares made me choke!
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I love your reviews! Yes to everything you mentioned and also:
Blair Witch Project worked so well because it looked real and felt real, Blair Witch felt incredibly superficial. Every character was a stereotype played by perfectly-coiffed-CW-looking actors. Every word out of their mouth felt scripted. Painful dialogue. So painful.
probably one of the most intelligent critics have ever listen to I'm probably still going to go see it I love me some slack
Thanks!
Seeing the trailer, i had a gut feeling it wouldn't be good. I saw it with some friends when it first came out and none of us were scared by it. Agreed, the jump scares were pretty laughable and, me personally, i never got invested. So just like Blair Witch 2, this is another movie they should have just left alone. They should have just done that one movie, and just let people guess what happened. Instead...well, at least they gave us a good laugh.
I'm noticing a mild trend for this movie. Reviewers who normally like these movies dislike it and those that usually dislike it are favorable towards it.
I agree and I had a feeling that fans of the first would dislike this one but I found it enjoyable
ChiGuy251 exactly
The first Blair Witch movie had it figured out - Less is more.
I agree with your review, but there is one thing I am confused on. Outside of two quick shots towards the end (witch chasing Lisa and some kind of stick monster behind Lisa at the end), where else did we see the actual witch? I remember James chasing a woman who he thought was suppose to be Heather.
When you spend 1 and a half minutes talking about how much you love the director/series/actor I know that there is gonna be a shitstorm coming. Keep up the good work!
The brother-sister dynamic of the film doesn't make much sense. Peter was supposed to be 4 when Heather disappeared. He remember a little bit about her, but he wouldn't know her enough to know it's her in the house at the end of the movie.
Except for the fact that in-universe, they have found the footage shot by the three filmmakers and thus eventually after the police did nothing about the supernatural occurrences and wrote it off as a hoax and finally released the film footage out of police custody as evidence, Heather's Mother went to Artisan to put the footage out into theaters hoping someone out there could figure out what happened. So in a sense he WOULD have seen that movie and would recognize his sister's voice.
This review is pretty spot on. I'll say this, I loved the last 10 minutes of it. the witch was crazy looking. I still have faith in Adam Wingard, YN, TG were fantastic movies.
keep up the great work!
one last thing, what does facing the corner help them out with? and when they found their friends facing the wall.
The movie essentially tried to get across that you CANNOT look the Blair witch or whatever it was IN THE EYE. Cornering yourself would keep it away.
Not gonna lie, it KINDA makes sense but by that logic it turns from Blair Witch to BIRDCAGE.
Ah, yes. The film that missed every mark on what made the original terrifying, and instead became "Grave Encounters 3"
I agree that it was dumb that the girl with an injured foot decided to climb a tree in the dark. However if you were in a very desperate situation and saw a possible glimmer of hope in the drone being able to find you a way out, maybe you would make that dangerous choice to climb up and try free it.
The screenwriter confirmed that the entity we see in the end was not in fact the Witch, but one of the Witch's victims.
The time travel didn't really bother me. The first movie had the scene where they walked all day just to find themselves at the same river crossing. If there is no witch, they just got turned around and didn't realize it. If there is a witch, that could imply that she power over reality.
The second movie, the characters kept seeing visions, usually moving backwards. Plus there's the whole aspect of truth only existing on film.
So having the witch cause her victims experience time at different speeds, directions, etc. I didn't think it felt that out of place.
The tall skinny monster you see alot isn't the witch. The director stated that she is a privious victim. And it's logical to think that she is actually Heather having to have gone through the same torture as kelly edward.
3:10 I think I just spitted my drink. lol
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GoodBadFlicks You seem to have a good taste in films. I like you. :3
No we never see the witch Wingard himself as stated that the thing at the end of the film everyone says is/mistakes for the witch IS NOT ELLY KEDWARD/THE BLAIR WITCH
Dude, you always feel like you're right on the money with your reviews, love watching your vids, thank you
It's exactly what I expected a modern version of Blair Witch to be like. I didn't expect the whole time travel powers nor did I understand the point.
If you notice when the Heather screaming it wasn't the same scream as the first one she was screaming mike on the first one this one she is just screaming
When i heard there was a new BW film coming out i was really excited and looking forward to it, i read all the early reviews saying it was really scary and a fitting sequel. Everything looked so promising.
What made the first one so great (among many other things) is that they kept just the essentials, it was very minimal. As Heather herself said in the BWP she didn't want any cheese. Well, sadly this outing for the Blair Witch is saturated with high-fat cheese. It really is just another generic big-budget studio horror-movie like any other with lots of noise, and sound effects, fast panning and editing, it has zero subtlety which is one of THE things which made the first so eerie and creepy.. It is in no way the spiritual sequel to The BWP
As mentioned in the video the character of Peter was a major flaw in this film, such an obnoxious, one dimensional character who's only role it seems was to mock and laugh at everything, the guy was a total and utter twat.
Such a major disappointment. The directors of the original must know that this was an opportunity wasted and i'd like to have seen them do a 'proper' CHEESE-FREE sequel, hopefully one day we'll see that film, not anytime soon i expect.
I love both the original and this film. Is it perfect? No. Is it the most original? In many ways, no. But I enjoyed it for being similar, yet the opposite to the original.
Also, it did meet my expectations, which wasn't what many had, I guess.
Reckon you'll do an exploring of this if any info comes up about it's production? May have been troubled. I mean considering Wingard's track record
I didn't hate the first movie, but I didn't think it was scary, except for the end when they got to the house. I guess it didn't scare me because I don't believe in ghosts. I don't need to see any monster, to be scared. The Babadook was a great scary movie. Haven't seen the new one yet, but I've seen the other two, and I'm curious.
the first one was something that you had to be there in a movie theater, in 1999. If you are watching for the 1st time in 2016 in your cell phone, you probably will not like it. I love it, reminds me of a simpler time.
With regards to the jump scares: One of the main characters has a line stating that the other characters need to stop popping into frame. It's almost like they were playing the jump scares straight and then in post recorded a new line to turn them into a joke.
I actually read somewhere that was actually not the real witch. They were setting it up for an sequel but it tanked at the box office.
"nothing happened, this is stupid" in the greatest Homer Simpson impression in movie reviews realm.
I think I've seen at least 150 maybe even 200 of your posts and each one has, at most, 15-20 dislikes. This has 60. People must have really liked this schlock. I'm with you...big cash in, mostly trash. Mildly entertaining at best. BTW totally wanna see more good-bad games, hook us up bro. Love your stuff, keep it up.
I never saw the original Blair Witch, but I'm wondering wich was the ending? Was it the basement scene, it her with a runny nose with the POV shot?
The basement scene was the ending and the running nose scene took place before the ending.
Jacob Martinez Ah , thank you
I can't find pictures of the witch. did they actually show her? I'm curious
Totally agree with this review. Also, were they implying aliens in this film? The weird parasite in the woman's leg, the lights outside of the house and the long-limbed CGI thing in the woods?
I enjoyed the movie, although, the jump scares were pretty annoying, and the digital noise and "malfunctioning" of the ear cams was also frustrating. Im not sure what direction they could have gone with this film to make it as scary as the first with out it being a complete copy. I suppose if they left out the visual of the witch and maintained the 'is there really a witch, or are they just losing their minds' approach, it would have been more genuine and played with your mind more.
Love this channel. Keep up the great work.
Thanks!
And I thought the whole 'don't look at the witch' was irony in that, as the viewer, if you look at the witch, your faith in the material dies.
I love your reviews and for once i have to say I disagree for the most part.
Bar the added noise to heather's death, and the constant stupid fake scares in the mid third and the audio noises that were trying to be scares.
I actually found the movie genuinely terrifying. The scene with the breaking of the stick man was a severe wtf as well as the whole ending shock of the footage. Sure the witch showed off more of her powers but that was foreshadowed by the stories Laine was telling as well as the sign on the tree next to the gate, but you only actually see the Witch twice and that wasnt very clear either, but her appearance again was mentioned by Laine :) Also Pete's antagonism with Laine and Taila wasnt just for no reason, he actually justifiably felt that they were praying on his friends belief in the legend and his sister. He may not have believed, but he was there for his friend no matter what
Actually, Wingard said after the fact, that the thing you see throughout the final act is NOT the witch. The thing in the house had its limbs stretched out like the legend, so I guess people are thinking that was Heather? Who had her body manipulated by the witch and turned into her minion? I dunno, I liked the movie a lot more than you did. Mainly cuz the final act was super tense and fun. And I liked the quick glimpses of the creature. You still made good points about the negative aspects of it tho. I really wanna know what that damn long limbed bastard is! I also believe Wingard stated it was one of the witch’s victims. I also thought the manipulation of time was a nice addition too. And that tunnel scene! That was intense.
Why did they do this!? Just show everything off with effects, showing the witch and JUMPSCARES!? You gotta be shitting me.
Pretty much, sadly
"!!hay whut u lookin fer!!?" lol
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Biggest Film disappointment of 2016 hands down.
I honestly didn't find the first one scary at all. However, I can't deny how happy I was that an original film idea, made independently for less than $200,000, did so amazingly well. I find, however, that few horror movies truly frighten me. Or rather, few feature length ones. Most of the films I find terrifying are of the short film variety, and of them, only a handful. The only two feature films, oddly enough, that truly frightened/disturbed me, as in, they got in my head and wouldn't leave, were the original The Haunting, and Mary Reilly.
I enjoyed the first movie, and I enjoyed the new one just as much.
My only complaint was the jump scares.
Wait... They brought a drone to help keep them from getting lost? Have they... not heard of GPS? GPS is accessible anywhere on Earth, in any weather conditions -- even when mobile internet isn't available to superimpose GPS coordinates over a graphical map, you can access latitude-and-longitude coordinates to guide you wherever you need to go. Way back in the 90's, my family had an early GPS unit, and you'd just 'mark' your current coordinates in it before going on a hike and, that way, if you got lost, you could just walk back toward those coordinates...
Thank you for being in the school that once you see the monster it's no longer scary. House on Haunted Hill remake was the scariest movie I'd ever seen, all the way up till its comical black mist ending.
Oh I've seen people who hated the first Blair witch like this movie
i didn't hate the first one but I did almost fall asleep back in 1999. I thought this was an improvement. I liked how it played with mythology but overall this was disappointing as an Adam Wingard movie.
Yeah, even my gampop even complain that in the first Blair Witch where they show people's noise.
Yeah, my parents don't like the first Blaire Witch because you never see it. The thing that confuses me is the fact that my dad loves the classic Frankenstein and Dracula films.
People are stupid.
There's a reason for that. Those people like being spoon fed lazy uninspired loud noise jump scare bullshit and don't want to actually think about what their watching. Those people are brain-dead morons who are the reason the horror genre is so decimated these days.
The Blair Witch went from... psychologically messing with people and making them do things on their own, to suddenly JUMPSCARE CITY with bright lights that look like a UFO landed outside the house instead of letting organic scenes flow of people talking like real people as they struggle with a situation beyond their control. This is how the original movie would've been made if the Studios interfered like they did Book of Shadows.
Blair Witch: Days of future past
HEY WHAT'RE LOOKIN FOR!?!?
Dude, i laughed :P
A lot of people I hung out with back in 1999 hated The Blair Witch Project. They all said the same thing "Its just three people in the woods the whole movie.". I thought the movie was scary as balls.
I wanted to leave the theater halfway through but I stuck it out. I had a splitting headache by the time I left.
That makes me so very sad. I had high hopes for this movie, and was genuinely looking forward to seeing it. Oh well.
Question though, where did you see the directors cut of Blair witch 2?
I had to make it myself using the original script and notes taken from the director's commentary.
Well I have watched your exploring blair witch 2, and I remember seeing it in theaters just being confused. after your exploring it really opened my eyes to what the project could have/should have been. what a shame that this was a dud. I had hoped maybe they would have reinvigorated the franchise instead of what they did. truly disappointed.
But I’d like to know what your ideas would’ve been to make it better or to not make it a complete rehashing this story has a specific setting and specific things that would need to be kept the same in the lore it’s easy to say it’s bad (which is true it’s not as great as the 1st but i don’t think it could be) but it’s a lot harder to say what could’ve been done better
In Jaws they wanted to show the shark alot. But it broke down ALOT. Spielberg figured out, less is more. It's scarier what you DON'T see. Your imagination filling in the blanks could be scarier than what you see.
I actually liked the part where the youtube uploader guy and girl reunited with the group -had a scifi vibe - there should have been so much more than jump scares - was the movie INCREDIBLY loud for anyone else? a persons voice in this movie was the same audio level as rustling in the distance
I just watched this again and I enjoy the Drone footage and I enjoy the footage from the ear cameras how they matched where everyone was looking and accounted for
Another great review. Congrats on 100,000 subscribers. I know you'll hit it soon. As for the things you remembered after recording. "All of 1 day", that Lane guy said he was out there for 5 days so I guess that's what he gets for making fake stick men.
Thanks! Well, he was there for 5 days (and more later) because of the time travel but the rest of them were there for a day. UGH.
I just camed back from watching it and it is a really disappointing film to the fans of the original!! I think its time for you to review the Phantasm sequels!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
I found your channel through the original movie review, and now I'm at a binge. Great reviews 👌(Italian hand)
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The writer supposedly said that wasn't the witch we saw in the movie leading some people to theorize that it was Heather in demon form being controlled by the witch .
I said in another video that i feel there was a parallel dimension where the witch resides and once you cross over you can't find your way out the woods, it's like that reverse world they mentioned in Blair 2 .
I was thinking the light was a door to the light side,/ our physical world opening up, it's the only way to escape the realm of the blair witch , which that crazy guy and his girlfriend did but only because the witch let them .
5 days in that realm is the equivalent to one day on the real side, maybe it's like a gravity thing , how on other planets where a day for us may be one month there but instead of physical gravity it's a spiritual gravity .
I loved it , def not as scary as the original but i was still totally invested in what was happening and i enjoyed how they expanded on the myth .
It could be a film that people learn to appreciate as more time passes much like the second movie . Hope there are some deleted scenes or a longer cut of the film , i have a feeling there were some key elements that were cut out .
Are you going to do a review on the toxic avenger? I love bad and low budget films so I loved this series. U should really review these
In 2012 a Q&A with the original cast of The Blair Witch Project, actor Michael Williams who played "Mike" mentioned how the executives at Artisan didn't like how the movie ended and decided to do a few reshoots. They tried multiple endings, from having Mike covered in blood, too having him being nailed to a giant stickman. he mentioned that this was the studio's attempt to have a more hollywood ending.... but the directors were insistent on keeping what they originally shot. It seems the 2016 sequel was under complete control of the studio. it's evident by the over-the-top special effects and treating the viewer like they are a complete idiot with having to re-explain the origin story throughout the movie .
Wasn't it suggested by one of the film makers that the figure at the end may have been a victim of the witch or Heather herself.
Just one thing, Peter wasn't being a dick to everybody, he sees a confederate flag at the couple's house and gets pissed, that's why he acts that way.
Your Blair witch 2 review doesn't work in Canada :(
The 'found footage' genre has been done to death now. Its time to put an end to it NOW!! Don't get me wrong, there's been some decent ones (Project Almanac, the first Paramormal Activity, Chronicle to name but a few) but its lost that spark.
That wasn't the witch that was a victim of the witch which is implied and speculated to be Heather whom had the same treatment as the Blair witch did when she died limbs outstretched and left in the woods. It's Heather chasing the people and knocking shit over. For someone who loves the Blair witch lore you sure missed a huge point that makes this movie awesome
I figured Peter was mocking the situation out of fear. I thought it was a fairly realistic disposition for a character in that situation.
If this wasn't a remake of Blair Witch and was titled the Woods, would you rate the movie differently?