Instead of having a group of characters going into the woods to investigate about the legend, we have a group of characters going into the woods to find Heather, the main character from the original, who happens to be our protagonist's sister. One of the main problems is that it plays out almost exactly like the original Blair Witch Project, albeit a bit more souped up. It is simply an average horror film and in my opinion the worst offering from the directing/writing duo so far. In fact, it's nothing much to write home about at all. Blair Witch isn't a bad film, but it's certainly no game-changer. Unfortunately I came out extremely disappointed. I avoided all trailers and decided to pop over and see it on opening day, hoping to watch a genuinely scary found footage horror film. People were calling it a game changer for horror films and one even went so far as to say that the film will wreck you, so of course I was sold. Early Reviews came out and I suddenly became very excited. I love the Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett duo and so I was looking forward to their next project, The Woods which of course turned out to be a secret pseudonym for a sequel to The Blair Witch Project.
So when Blair Witch was revealed, I wasn't exactly excited like a lot of people were. There's no big payoff, nothing is ever shown and mostly I just find very boring and tedious. Despite a creepy final ten seconds and an intriguing set-up of the Blair witch legend, the film is basically 80 minutes of people arguing in the woods over a lost map. Personally, I'm not a fan of Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's original film. Love it or hate it, The Blair Witch Project is an essential piece of filmmaking and a masterpiece of movie marketing which popularised the found footage sub-genre.
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