Blair Witch - Movie Review
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Chris Stuckmann reviews Blair Witch, starring James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Valorie Curry, Corbin Reid, Wes Robinson. Directed by Adam Wingard.
You know the movie is bad when Chris' review starts with how great the director was.
B- is a good grade though
It's not bad, just disappointing. It's "ok"
Nah B- is good, C is ok/meh
Ethe[R] Music I think B is good. B- means "just not good" imo that translates to "ok" xD I'd agree that a C is meh. Maybe ratings should be changed to these kinds of terms :p
B is really good i think. Like thats a solid 7 whereas B- is around 6. 6 is good, what you on
Sticks and rocks are compelling actors.
Sticks and rocks aren't Jamie Fox, but their words can still convince me
Sticks and rocks may break my bones but reviews are merely an elemental part of today's news capable of containing meaning and absurdities and as such can't produce the 5000 Newtons of force per square centimetre required to break the bones of an average human being
Sticks and rocks? Whatever happened to stones?
thanks ice_giant, that certainly covered my daily recommended intake of delicious autistic cancer
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Chris, when are you going to review The Woods?
Or someone doesn't understand the joke >.>
At least I got it. When I read 8Samby's comment I literally went: "Haha".
Looks like 43 people didn't
Henchman 21
You mean 8Samby's original comment (which has 45 likes so far) or Rump Buffalo's (which has 47 like so far)? I figured the likes indicated that people GOT the joke and was giving them the like in appreciation.
I ment the original comment. I was replying to Rump Buffalo but my replies aren't working properly for some reason.
What unsettling about original The Blair Witch Project is how the characters lose themself and started going nuts.
And eating leaves.
Really there was nothing unsetting about any part of it. It was boring from the beginning right thru to the end.
Pacific Fun No the one that i just wasted $12 watching in the theater.
+Pacific Fun As soon as I was watching I already could tell they were all going to die so I wasn't thinking the same. In the movie when you see the witch and the situation they are stuck in well they didn't have a chance.
bunnyfreakz there's a theory that Joss and Mike actually murdered Heather
Chris: "I grew up with Blair Witch as a kid. We go way back."
@@scaryrumpus chris usually says "i grew up with" mentioning something related to the review he's making. Here he said "I grew up with Blair witch" and it sounded as if he was literally friends with the witch, that's why the user added "we go way back"🤣
🤣🤣🤣I do get it
BOO!
Did I scare you?
Blurrpppp
FUCK! you frightened me
Don't do that!
I thought of Deadpool when I read this.
I'm suing you for the heart attack you gave me.
Here's a question: Why are these people only NOW going to look for the original group? It's been fifteen years!
actually 22. the first one takes place in 1994.
+Rebecca Joy This movie is set in 2014 so 20 years.
they mention the fact that they looked for them. the guys friend says he was part of a search group.
20 years
the drone usage ruined it for me. illogical, and it didn't add anything to the story
I saw this video at 666 views, creepy...
that mean the devil is watching you..quick make a jelly sandwich and toss it in the air
JELLY SIDE DOOOOOWN
sometimes my penis tingles
lol you're fucked
Have you met Satan yet or are you still waiting?
JUST got home from seeing this one.. the witch is ruthless in this one.
It's pretty suspenseful, the jumpscares are dumb but overall, I'd say it's pretty intense. Especially that last 10-15 minutes, Jesus.
+AglowBigfoot can you explain it? I'll probably never see it.
Lets just say they weren't afraid to actually show the witch in this film... and she is definitely an unsettling sight to see.
Thanks!
it is not lol
Overall I liked it but fully agree about the jumpscares. I swear there were 10 at least in the first 45 minutes.... To the point I was rolling my eyes.
Favourite movie reviewer by far!
same!
why? this guys lame
Chris don't be a... Blairhead.
I'll see myself out.
I think you should...
We don't serve your kind
So....it completely retreads the original.....huh......sounds a lot like....I don't know......could it be... The Force Awakens!?!? 😜
I facepalmed more at the "I'll see myself out" than the pun itself.
+Geoff Gershon ikr?? I thought the same thing!
This movie was horrible as shit. Fake jump scares, unlikeanle and annoying characters, and just straight boring
wanna tell me what these last 10 mins are about?
@Brudie, the last 10 minutes were genuinely good. I actually felt uncomfortable and tense because the characters are all stuck and the scenes are just them struggling. It looks and feels so real, which made me genuinely tense.
Unfortunately. the movie before the 10 minutes sucked. Real bad. And the jump scares can go fuck themselves.
Lol but tell me what happened
Totally agree with you, didn't care about anything that happened to these kids
just go see it already
Who else thought the Blair Witch Project was a real documentary when it came out I sure did
My dad decided to be an asshole, and claimed that he had taken me up to Burkittsville all the time when I was younger (which, being from upstate NY, was a feasible possibility).
A lot of people forget about the (mock)documentary "The Curse of the Blair Witch" which was shown on public television where I live just before the film came out. We had a Sunday horror night each week on a local TV channel that showed classic horror films then one week they showed the documentary. It was incredibly well done and went into great depth on all aspects of the story and plot which made it seem highly believable. As a young teen I had no experience in mockumentaries, and they had certainly never been used to that effect in regards to marketing and reinforcing the non-fiction of a film. As such it really created the atmosphere of "is this real?" and also thickened up the plot.
I get why many modern viewers don't get the fuss or why it was such a big deal at the time but this film is very different in regards to the marketing being so integral to the overall mystique, immersion and enjoyment of the film.
Here's a link just in case anyone wants to check it out and can therefore understand what all the fuss was about after it just randomly popped up on TV one night for the film to be released a month or two later:
vimeo.com/114798394
You must not have grown up watching documentaries.
idiot. the old movie a worst movie ever made long ago blair witch 2 was real good! underrated! this one stupid too...
TONS of people did, Cole. Don't let the revisionist history fool you. It fooled a shit load of people.
Adam Wingard next year is giving us Death Note. Might be a great anime adaptation.
I hope so but don't have much faith in it after this, unless he can get back to good films like the guest or you're next
To this filmmaker's credit, he picked a film that didn't need to be remade/continued.
+OneMinuteMovieReview Every director had to have made at least one mixed film. Probably the anime adaptation that will come out soon will be good.
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Watch Blair Witch online here => twitter.com/38934c7f527b2b849/status/824645229571551232
Have you seen The Invitation yet, Chris? I found it to be a really refreshing and tension filled thriller that I think you might really like.
Lol no
😂😂😂
I liked it too
The Invitation was FUCKING AWESOME!! I had to learn that by multiple viewings. At first I didn´t like it either, it had to grow on me. But nowadays, I think it´s a masterpiece! A+ movie!!
What I loved the most about The Invitation was:
*_S U S P E N S E ! ! !_*
this movie was so frustrating
Yeah I thought it was just another lame found footage horror
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You sir, are correct.
Your rant on jump scares needs refining, - you can speak about how a scare like that immediately removes all tension in the scene, which then has to be built back up, losing valuable character time. Count the "jump scares" in The Shining.... - How much Tension is in the Shining? All the tension,
The shining is not completly without jumpscares
watch Chris's video called ''The problem with horror movies today'' should answer all your questions
Tension in The Shining? When?
Cheap jump scares actually diminish adrenaline. They're not actually scary, but cause people to have the chemical reaction of surprise over and over again (as you said " then has to be built back up) to a point where they are less scared or surprised when the real shit goes down in the movie.
Personally only jump scares can legitimately catch me off guard other than that I won't flinch because I'm not effected by gore or grotesque imagery that much lol
All i did in this movie was predict jumpscares :/
That's the thing with most horror movies, they are too predictable.
I just Can't understand why people don't realise that tention and eerieness (probs butchered the spelling) is what made horror great not loud sudden noises that break immersion
There was no action or anything scary. Unless people walking thru a dark woods at night in the rain is really scary for you.
The last ten minutes made it all worth while. The MOMENT it starts, you know it. My mouth was wide open with my hands on my face and I was thrilled.
This may sound stupid, but you tell me what it is even though it's a humongous spoiler? I really don't plan on seeing this movie but Chris' constantly bringing it up made me curious
Pacific Fun I need to know. Please spoil that shit XD in sounds cool but I honestly do not care to see this movie
1. they break one of those twig figures from the 1st movie and a girl snaps in half
2. it's raining heavy as shit and it's intense
3. A girl pulls a bug out of her wound
4.there's a hint at a guy being stuck in a house for years even though he only arrived in forest like a day or two ago
5. there's a really well done claustrophobic scene which is probably the best scene in the movie
6. They show a monster but it's not the witch
7. There's a time loop happening and basically the entire movie is probably a time loop
8. They explain what the witch can do with the forest but they don't say it but more show
9. and basically a really weird recreation of the final scene from the 1st movie except this time they're in the attic
and not just a recreation, they take it to the next level, its preety scary
It was great
So you bash this film for being a retread of the original but you give The Force Awakens an A+ when it did the exact same thing as well?
Difference is, The Force Awakens was actually good
Double standards I guess. I personally thought The Force Awakens was equally insipid too. Same old shit, new paint.
The thin g that in Star Wars the formula works and can have minor changes and still works
With the Blair Witch the formula is so simple thet therev is no space for creativity in this one
watch his spoiler review. He addresses it. Also he gave it an A.
+TOTTO9509 The problem with that was it kind of came at the sacrifice of the plot becoming predictable.
When your jacket's lit af
Your thumbnails are so cringe worthy. Why do you have your mouth open in each one like you are surprised?
Why do you give a shit troll?
Well, that is a nice reply.
He is a little "cringey" but he seems like a decent and genuine dude so I got no problem with it.
its called click bait
Because it shows if he liked it
I did try to figure out how jump scares work in a forest. Pretty sure it's almost impossible to sneak up on someone in a forest. snap. crack. crick.
My theory on the Blair Witch ending:
--- SPOILERS ---
The creature you see in the last 10 minutes isnt' the witch..... it's an extraterrestrial being!
Wingard and Barrett reinvented the mythology of the witch with the idea that aliens inhabit in those woods (or use it as a base), therefore every strange phenomenon is connected to them. You can clearly see that it's a humanoid creature and looks nothing like the ghost on an 18 century woman.
Plus this would explain:
1) the disappearence of many children throughout the years (they were actually abducted by these aliens)
2) the time warping/space manipulating abilities that the witch has (alien technology)
3) all those light in the final minutes (why would a ghost send out all those glares??)
4) the weird worm growing in the black girl's foot (maybe it's an extraterrestrial life form brought by them, or one that originated in those woods as a result of a bacterial contamination)
They didn’t reinvent the witch is really a alien it looks like where the wild things are it attacked the black guy and shook all the ground
Worst film of the year so far.
Nine Lives?
Well... 🙃🙃😊😊
I forgot Norm of the North was 2016! Must've been so bad that nobody remembers it.
The movie sucked! What was with the ending? ''Spoiler Alert: Wasnt the girl at the end who looked in the mirror the same girl heather's brother thought was actually heather in the beginning clips they watched on his computer? If so, how does this make any sense?
please explain cuz I don't get it
I'm still a tad bit confused lol
I also got confused with that, but I thought about it and think it's a never-ending loop. In the beginning, it shows Heather in the mirror running away, and in the ending, it shows the main chick in the same exact position. Later on once the found footage is recovered from future teens, they'll go out into the woods looking for clues but will be in the same position, running away from the Blair Witch, making it a never-ending cycle. Hope this all makes sense😂
agreed
B- really Chris that's a bit to nice, More like a C-
I was thinking the same thing. His grades never seem to correspond with what he talks about in the video.
I can believe it. Not all meh to bad movies can be saved within the last ten minutes but usually but twists and stuff can elevate them a letter grade IMO.
The Silver Shamrock Especially this review.
More like dogshit
Yeah more like a D cause any 10 year old with a camera can go running thru the woods at night and pretend there is something chasing them.
Best found footage movies I've seen are still the first two [REC] films by far, the amount of intensity and genuine scares those films contained is unmatched compared to any other film in this genre. I didn't like the first Blair Witch, and I hoped this one would be good, but much to my dismay, it was a beat-for-beat recreation (as you stated), except for the well rounded final act of the film.
Can we address the amount of times where it's unclear whether the characters actually heard a BOOM sound versus the BOOM being a stinger sound to scares the audience?
I'm a fan of the original. The complaints I hear people say about the first one, about how boring it was, how stupid the characters are, how it all led up to nothing, I did not feel about the original at all. This movie, however, is exactly the movie people described the original as: boring, the characters were stupid, and it led to nothing. Along with Chris said, the fucking jumpscares. As for the final ten minutes of the movie, that was the worst part of the movie for me. The tunnel scene was not claustrophobic, nor scary, because, unlike the first film, I did not give a shit about any of the characters in this film, nor did I find it scary because everything that occurred prior to that was pure garbage.
Chris, its a little late at night to release a movie review
I think ur a bitch
Yes it is, but since it is a review of a horror movie it matches.
Not everyone is from the US!
Timezones, pleb.
Do you know how much it takes to upload and renderize a Full HD video?
"Jump scares" are fine, when they're done right, at the right moments and in the right context.
There's a very particular time and place for them, and I gotta say Chris is right, cheap and unearned jump scares that happen at seemingly random times throughout the film have a desensitizing effect on them, in general.
Just like anything good, the initial value decreases SUBSTANTIALLY when not used in sparing moderation.
Not every movie even needs a jump scare just to qualify as a horror or thriller film. Every now and then it's appropriate, and can even be perfect in the right circumstances.
But less is definitely more with those kinds of tropes.
Fewer jump scares, please! And, if your movie just HAS to have one, please at LEAST make it happen at the right moment. We're all being slowly desensitized to catharsis nowadays already, let's try to keep a few things sacred, until we've evolved away from heeding warnings given off by our Amygdalas lol when "fight or flight" is no longer a necessary human trait.
Meanwhile, I saw Blazing Saddles tonight, and I think we know which is the better movie.
So basically only the last ten minutes are worth watching. Rest of the movie is the same movie as the original just "bigger" Surprised you gave this a B- This was just as bad as Chernobyl Diaries.
Yeah, this was like a Blair With follow up to paranormal activity, does everything bad those films do
Why did you enjoy Star Wars then? It's basically a rehash of the original
What people don't seem to understand is that retreading the original is not, itself, a bad thing. What matters is whether the sequel takes the structure and does something different. Chris made a video on this, where he talked about Indiana Jones and how all three movies follow the same pattern. Look at any successful franchise and you'll see the same thing: Terminator, Alien, Back to the Future, etc. The Force Awakens added a lot of new ideas and twists on the old formula. Creed and Fury Road did the same as well. What Chris is complaining about is when they don't add any new ideas or doing it as well as it was before, meaning there's no reason to sit through it if you've already seen the first one. If you've seen the first 2 Terminator movies, you can skip the rest. But watching A New Hope and Force Awakens are still different experiences with different themes and characters.
Danny Malzahn I don't agree. I think the differences lie in the details. If you're looking at it myopically, of course it's similar. It's fucking Star Wars; they're always going to repeat certain ideas and themes. The prequels stole just as much. Sure, they added more, but all of it was bullshit and retarded, so I don't see how that's an even trade.
But it's different because the characters face different struggles and are different kinds of people. That's what makes stories interesting, not the plot structure. Rey is different than Luke or Anakin. She's not interested in adventure or excitement; she just wants her family back. Her struggle is internal, not external. She has to make a choice to accept her destiny, which she does. Luke's struggles in A New Hope were mostly relegated to needing to be saved all the time like a little bitch. He had no real inner turmoil in that movie. That only happened later on in Empire. He even gets over the horrific death of his Aunt and Uncle almost immediately. So, sure, if you want to call her thin, I say Luke was thinner in that movie, and by comparison, Rey has more depth. Same with Kylo. He has an inner struggle. Vader, not so much in IV. He was just... evil. Again, all the depth came later. And nobody had any depth in the entirety of the Phantom Menace, so don't even try to say they did.
All this stupid stuff about who can and can't use a lightsaber to me is ridiculous. The story isn't meant to be take *literally*. It's like a metaphor. Or a legend. Or a fable. It's not a D&D quest. There aren't stats governing all this shit. The hero wins because they're the hero. Good triumphs over evil. Classic storytelling tropes. It has more in common with King Arthur than Star Trek. So complaining about what is and isn't plausible is like a snake eating its own tail. It solves nothing in the long run. And applying any of these standards to the prior six movies makes it seem even more trivial, because all of these people would be dead a million times over if this was a world governed by physics. You can't float a few feet above 1000 degree lava and not burst into flames. Jedi or not, he ain't made out flame-resistent materal. So the plausibility argument is a confirmation bias argument. You accept the premise that the movie is bad, then look for reasons why, instead of the other way around.
kylo ren was shot by a weapon that can send you flying 10 feet away. in fact he was probably fighting with half a kidney. he isn't fully trained and hasn't been fighting jedi in quite a while. rey knows how to use a staff and if she is able to use that then she can use a lightsaber. she was running away from him most of the fight and we don't know if she is one of the pupils of luke skywalker.
Danny Malzahn okay then he was DYING. it is pretty hard to fight when you are dying and having a quarter of your organs burned away and once again we don't know rey's past yet. she probably learned to use a sword first before the staff idk make something up
also he didn't even want to kill rey. he wanted her to join
jump scares is honestly one of the reasons i tend to stay away from the horror genre, but when i stumble upon a horror movie or game that builds upon tension and an intriguing concept there are few experiences that can live up to that.
This movie is weird. I found it very tense and there were some very inventive and imaginative horror concepts in this film. The time displacement, the idea that the sun hasn't come up in 5 days, the drone stuff - it's all great stuff...but the original is super ambiguous with it's approach to the supernatural and that aspect was completely abandoned in this film.
It seems like this film was trying too hard to counter the oversimplified general complaints from the first Blair Witch project film which was that "Nothing Happens."
To me, the Blair Witch Project was all about setting a supernatural horror film in real life. By never showing the antagonist or any actual supernatural occurrences it stands up as the most realistic depiction of supernatural horror to date. This is as real as it gets.
I think this new film had a really difficult job. People are already pretty desensitized to horror, a lot of people disliked the slow pace and (anti) climax of the original film and other people really liked the minimalistic realism of the original. It's hard to balance these but at the end of the day it's still a fun horror flick.
B- Works for me.
It worked for me. Sometimes watching a movie at hike or with a group of things lessens the effect a movie should have. Or like you said you become desensitized to things. But I watched this movie by myself at the theater and there are plenty of moments where the fear starts to creep in and keeps you from looking up at the screen.
So ... if this movie is a lot similar to the first BW movie , is this considered to be a soft reboot ?? Or a *ahem* ...S-A-W-F-T ... SAWFT (for the young WWE fans here) A soft sequel???
omg marry me
Alec Scheller We already are ! Don't you remember that night in Vegas ??
I was really excited for this movie and I was let down. HARD.
I loved the original, and I hated this one. I know it's a sequel and not a remake, but it felt like it was. They just upped the "scare" and incorporated more supernatural stuff, which did not make for a better movie. We also see the witch, and that was a let down. I was beyond bored watching it. It's just a terrible movie.
The less is more approach is what they needed to do, but instead they pushed a unique film into generic big budget horror territory and it was a massive letdown, and yes I completely agree with the witch; she literally looked like a hagraven from Skyrim.
I've watched the Guest at 5-10 times and seriously it doesn't get boring even after watching it so many times.......
Love the music in that film 😍
OneMinuteMovieReviews Ya the soundtrack is awesome , especially that song Annie Antonio.....I downloaded it and keep listening to it .........
u can't grow hair on your chin.
u can't grow hair on your boolsack
u also can't grow hair on your eyes.
That's like me asking you why you're so ugly. There's nothing he can do about it his lack of chin hair, just like there's nothing you can do about being ugly!
Without the jump scares this movie would be awesome
The last 40 or 30 minutes are EXCELELENT
DON'T WATCH SEE THIS FILM, IT FUCKING SUCKS!
I am holding out hope for Wingard's Death Note, but the casting does not bode well.
windgard is going to direct death note?... huh... that... is enough for me to want to at least watch the pilot
Yeah, pretty sure that they made L a black guy... not that I dislike black people, but I just think that it's not a good choice.
Sushiyoda if the directing, acting and scruipt are solid enough, then cast whatever
It's a movie, with Nat Wolff (The Naked Brothers Band, Fault in Our Stars) playing Kira.
That's going to be a disaster.
well I will be waiting for redbox for this movie
Try cinemabox on your phone
or how about you don't break the law and steal from the filmmakers.
I definitely would. Movies take a lot of hard work and money, and even though its a bad movie with a lot of studio interference, you're still stealing.
You're stealing your avatar and your cover picture, no one cares about that.
Who you do define as "the filmmaker"? Anyone who is involved? It takes hundreds of people to make a film, all paid by the studio. And you're taking money from the studio. Maybe I should find out what you do for a living and start stealing from you
This is the first movie in years that actually scared me enough that when I went home, I didn't want to look behind me.
As always I agree with you... the last part was the only good one. And those fucking fake jumpscares! Doing it once now at days is already a sin... but doing it 6 or 7 times!? 90% of this movie was just "LOUD NOISES!!!"
How did the score on rotten tomatoes drop from 70% to 40%?.
Because the first Blair witch was shit and this one is no different
Pacific Fun ok but it started out with great reviews.
Pacific Fun the same thing happened with Sausage Party .the score dropped on that as well.
illuminati
***** Illuminati confirmed?
Half life series!!!!
They ended that series with the words "No, oh god, no, please, dont leave me".
fuck you valve
Wait, what?
did i miss something? did he mention half life?
I loved it. Yeah, it was very similar to the first movie, but we do find out some new things in the main body of Blair Witch. Like the odd passage of time (real time for the main group while days pass for the others), what happens when you break a stick figure, the fact that the sun never rises again once fate has been officially decided by the "entity".... even a blurry, quick look at what may have been the "entity" itself.
Chris please see and review the Korean movie 'Train to Busan'!!! horror/zombie
just saw it INCREDIBLY disappointing. plz don't waste ur money on it. Even the last 10mins honestly Chris I thought were meh
So it's okay for Force Awakens to be a like the original...but its disappointing if Blair Witch does the same???
the difference with that though is that TFA is rebooting the franchise. they were trying to make it more like ANH so that people would have faith for the future movies. it was also not a sequel to ANH whereas this is a sequel to the first film.
This isn't a reboot? Blair Witch has been dead for 16 years. If (when) this will be success, there are sequels coming. So it is a reboot.
TFA is a Sequel though. As in it continues the story of Han, Leia, and to a lesser extent Luke. Its just most of us are willing to overlook it because it star wars.
This movie did not scare me at all. I went with my friend Friday & we were expecting crazy scares especially because it was rated R. But it wasnt like that at all. I laughed more than I got scared lol. But then again I dont scare easily. I have yet to find a movie that really scares me.
So, Star Wars can copy itself, but Blair Witch can't?
Yes because Star Wars is Star Wars 😂
That's no excuse, the new Star Wars was shit
I really hope Chris reads this comment
your opinion, but that doesn't change their box office record 😂 there's no winning in bitching, someone will always be unsatisfied
I did Dan 😂
Jump scares rarely ever work, but there are a few times where I think they're done well. For example in Alien, the cat in that film has a jump scare and it works. But the reason why it works isn't because of the jump itself, it works because there's a tension build up, and when the cat jumps that releases the tension, and that is when the Alien appears. The jump scare isn't the scare, it's the false alleviation of tension that brings about the scare.
Chris, would you ever consider doing a video about The Neon Demon in the same way that you analyzed Drive and Only God forgives?
He said in the review for TND that he considered doing one once he had time to see it again, so hopefully he's working on that.
Whenever he complains about jump scares, I feel like he feels ABOUT the jump scares. If that makes any sense. 😂😂
Lol. Reviewers were like ummmmmmmmmmm. Mommy?
I'm surprised you thought the acting was good. It constantly took me out of the movie to see so much cheesy "Hollywood movie acting". The original Blair Witch Project had much more natural acting, and it sold the whole found footage gimmick. Here, with this new film, it hindered my enjoyment. BW3 was terrible. Enjoyably so at parts, but I think Blair Witch 2 does "so bad, it's good" better, and I'd rather watch that film than this new one again.
but loved star wars the force awaken for doing the same thing
Yeah I feel like force awakens ripped off the first Blair Witch too
+Zach Gerrity 👏👏
He addressed that in the force awakens, so....
He did not love The Force Awakens for recreating Star Wars, he loved The Force Awakens despite recreating Star Wars
Wait so the Force Awakens hate is still going? Interesting.
Love your reviews Chris, but I have to completely disagree on this one. I'd give *Blair Witch* a *C+* at best, it was one of the most unnecessary sequels ever made and rehashed nearly everything that worked in its predecessor to a lesser result.
The premise basically rips off 2009's *Friday the 13th*, the modern technology doesn't make up for the derivative cinematography, and the characters are more annoying than Heather's group. The suspense is mediocre since they copy several scares from the original, and the twist in the finale actually hurts more than it ever could have helped, with plot holes ripe for picking apart. I won't spoil it, but let's just say that the "come full circle" angle really doesn't work in retrospect.
This is exactly why I was against a continuation of the first film, because I suspected it would turn out like this. The problem with Blair Witch as a cultural phenomenon is that there's simply no way to achieve the same influence or reactions as before. However you go about it, a majority of audiences today are adapted to what was considered fresh in 1999.
If the crew truly wanted to pay homage while succeeding in their own right, they should have come up with a totally new type of story within the lore that would stand on its own merits. This film's worst mistake was ruining the ambiguity of the original by blatantly asserting that what's happening is indeed supernatural (the witch herself even appears at one point).
Part of what made the first film scary was that we didn't know for sure what was responsible for the events occurring. Was there a witch, were townspeople were messing with the characters, or were they somehow just losing their minds and the footage we see is edited in a way to support that? Well, consider that psychological edge blown out the window now.
Overall, I personally refuse to acknowledge this as a sequel to or associate it with the first *Blair Witch*.
does Chris have braces?
As always, good review, and thank you for the info. I actually fell asleep during the original Blair Witch. Serious. I'm not making some kind of heightened comparison to "up" my view of the original. I literally fell asleep and honestly didn't understand why people were SO freaked out by the original. There were X-files episodes which I thought were far more gripping and disturbing. "Home" would be a great example. I think that was around the same time. Like you said, if I didn't dig the original I probably won't dig this one. I'll probably sit this one out. Thanks again for the review. Much appreciated, and all the best to ya.
I really get a sense from a lot of recent horror movies that the creators had an idea for a single aweslne scene/sequence, and really nothing else. So what we get is somewhere between 35 seconds to 10 minutes of the director realizing their vision, and it's good, but it's tacked on to a movie that is completely pointless and empty. We saw this in the purge films, where you would get to the really creepy part with the masks, well shot and dramatic and awesome, but the rest of the movie is a snooze fest.
The let ten minutes of Blair Witch was fantastic. But the rest of it was atrocious. The characters could hardly have been more bland if the writers had tried. The jump scares were entirely purposeless. I thought the acting was okay sometimes, but altogether pretty hokey. If you see this movie make sure you understand that you're only there for the last scene.
I think that's the deal with so many movies. Lots of writers say 'oh I got an idea for a scene and I just ran with it' but that doesn't always work out
I really wish they didn’t just confirm that “yep there’s witch’s in the woods or something idk aliens who knows.” The idea of the murder plot in the woods was so much more terrifying, the idea that they murdered a woman taped it that tape got realeased and nobody noticed is chilling
Sorry Chris, D- for me total rubbish I loved the first one I thought it was interesting and different but this was real bad, nearly fell asleep about half way through and the last 10mins does not make a film.
What made you like the original but not this one?
The fact that no one had used the idea of a filming a suspence/horro film like a home video. Complete with close up's and shaking camera, also the fact that you really never see the witch except for a split sec, this left a lot to your imagination, I hope this expalins why i like the first one. The second one just dose not have the same impact and I though the story very weak and nothing I had not see before in other films.
Ohhh, i see, it wasn't innovative anymore.
nope and the story was very weak to me nothing new in it.
This movie was so bad it actually made me angry. That almost never happens. I literally enjoy the worst of the worst. But this was just infuriating. I remember being SO excited when it was still being marketed as The Woods, it looked really tense and interesting. Then it was revealed to be Blair Witch and I was even more pumped! The original still freaks me out to this day, and the trailer for this one looked really promising. Watching the final product however, was just a slap in the face, as someone who's LOVED the found footage genre for years. Adam Wingard man... he makes such amazing films like You're Next, and the segment from V/H/S, just to completely ruin it with garbage like this and the Death Note remake he made. It's frustrating.
When will your review of the new Bridget Jones be up? :)
Sure he can't wait for that, do people in the US even like Bridget Jones
I hear they love it for how quaintly British it is
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what the fuck is bridget Jones.
Yeah I knew that all the 12 year olds in the comments would say that this was boring. Surprise, not every movie nowadays is action packed. Plus the OG Blair Witch was boring but great at the same time
Blair Witch 2016 was awesome, if you actually think about all the time lapsing and actually seeing more than you didn't the original. Deff go check it out its worth it!
I want to see prequel movies, like what happened to Rustin Parr, and Elly Kedwards origin story
Besides the jump scares, this is a decent horror movie and my favorite horror movie from this year (that I have seen). It's definitely my favorite Blair Witch movie. The first one is good, but it doesn't hold up well as time goes on; I don't talk about Book of Shadows. Blair Witch is one of the few good found footage movies I have seen that I like. I give it a 7/10 just because it was a bit too similar to the first and the constant jump scares.
Blair Witch 2016 was awful. Wingard completely missed the point of the original. The mysterious unanswered questions. What does the witch look like? Is it a physical being or is it a spirit? Does it even have an human embodiment or is it just a inter dimensional entity living through the forest? Not a single jump scare. The fear was brought on by the unknowing and the insanity slowly developing in the characters. Finally to lead to the eery visuals of the ending. Arguably one of the creepiest scenes in cinema history.
Instead what we got was non stop jump scares. As if jump scares aren’t cheap enough they were mostly false alarms. Like Chris said the friends jump in the camera and say “Hey”. It’s beyond cheap and one of the cringiest attempts at horror I’ve ever seen. And it only got worse. 17 years of wondering what this witch looks like and she finally reveals herself as a 8 foot deformed monster. Roaring like an Orc and running after the characters. Completely eliminating the mysterious supernatural entity we all loved in the original.
It’s obvious Wingard didn’t have any passion in this project. He just made an extremely cheap shallow movie for stupid people. 0/10 probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Especially as a sequel to a classic horror.
I thought this and book of shadows was the same lol
I don't think so, Book Of Shadows is one the worst sequel ever !
No as in I thought they were the same movie
Wow major spoiler alert... the last 10 minutes of this movie explodes, are very scary and very unsettling. Wow Chris thanks for spoiling all the fun. I'll anticipate all this in the end. No thanks to you.
Blair Witch is a very good movie, eh?
I thought the movie was full of too many cheap jump scares with too many characters that I didn't care for. It felt so scripted, many of the tense moments felt forced, lots of loud generic screechy noises, there were too many characters and cameras, basically it just didn't feel real at all. Also I was annoyed with how they used the cameras, they kept going between the different camera perspectives and many of the shots were too professionally done to feel like an amateur movie while sometimes it seemed like they tried too hard to make the shots seem like amateur footage. Maybe I'm being too negative there but I just didn't feel immersed at all with the story, they just didn't feel like real people to me.
Having said that, there were a few things I liked...
*SPOILERS*
The way that voodoo stick figure thing was snapped resulting in one of the female characters getting her back snapped, I thought that was a cool idea and was executed well. I also liked the twist round about the end where the camera footage seemed to be a repeat of the camera footage found at the start of the movie, I thought that was nicely done and gives you a few things to think about. I even liked the design of the Blair Witch herself, although I much preferred the original where she wasn't seen at all, leaving your imagination to do the work.
That ending scene infuriated me, when that man and woman (I forgot their names) were standing in the corner of the room, but at the same time RECORDING THEMSELVES at a really awkward angle while crying in fear. It seemed a little silly to me, why would you do that in that situation.
I'm not normally so negative, but there was something about this movie I really hated, I honestly thought that this is one of the worst horror movies I have ever seen, for me at least anyway. Maybe it was because I loved the original so much, as it didn't rely on jump scares or sudden loud noises, and also in the original I found the characters to be very real. So perhaps I'm comparing it too much to the original. Anyway sorry for ranting on a bit there.
I had high hopes for this film and ended up being disappointed.
Got dissapointed by this movie cause it's copy and paisted like the original. Yet likes Star Wars 7 even though it's almost Exctaly beat for beat like the Star Wars 4
A B- when you basically didn't have anything good to say about it? I know you like everything Chris, but I'm still disappointed
so basically your saying the movie is crap, but the last 10 mins are awesome. ok thanks.
So much generosity. I would give a C-. But I agreed with the positive points, but I just dont think they redeem the rest of the film.
"Those jump scares, they need to go the fuck away."
Hahahaha, you're the man, Stuckmann.
I find it cute that alot of crybabies in the comments are excusably trying hit on Chris by comparing this movie to the force awakens.
I am getting tired of all these found footage movies, yes Blair Witch is the matriarch of the genre. But horror has just been stale for me..I want the slasher genre to return.
I actually find jumpscares scary. The ones in this movie don't sound scary at all.
Chris, you gotta review Train to Busan! I would love to see your opinio on that film. Please?
Is there a thumbnail where your mouth isn't open?
No, he has to make stupid face expressions for some reason, no matter what movie.
As usual, great review Chris. As a film-buff-father, your review actually made me extremely happy. My 14-year old daughter and I watch everything we possibly can. Well...not everything. That could get weird. Either way, if we finally find time to sit through the first one, and then Ema will demand we see part too-dumb that I haven't even seen it yet. At this point, the movie will most likely be on VOD. Like other genres, there are some horror flicks you just HAVE to see in the theater!
Blair Witch sounds like the perfect combo, all-in-one film. What are your thoughts on trying to sway her out of seeing the first two? Is Blair Witch an okay starting point?
Thanks for what you do!
So I read the plot on Wikipedia and I don't understand the last part anyone wanna explain what was scary at the end to me?
did anyone listen to that sound when he says at the beginning of the review "shit happens" at 0:59 ?
creepy...
B.O.R.I.N.G. movie.
I only made it 4 minutes into this movie before realising it was going to be utter garbage.
In all fairness, if a lot of people and their friend groups were out in the woods, there will always be that one person who does go for the jump scare. Usually you let them get away with it once, punch them in the arm, and then laugh it off. It usually doesn't happen again because everyone knows that the second person who decides to be lame and tries it will get clobbered and be ostracized for the rest of the trip.
Wonderful review though, I'm definitely curious about the film now, since I am also a part of the generation that was just the right age when the original came out.
Maybe I'm the only one who felt nauseated throughout the movie
i hated the original blair witch but i actually really enjoyed this one
I found this just to be another generic found footage horror, at the start when they had all the camera gear and drones I thought they could do something cool with it but no, just another fake jump scare filled mess