Blair Witch is incredibly faithful to the original film in terms of how it goes about getting under the audience’s skin: the sounds of wood creaking in the forest the piles of rocks those mysterious bundles of sticks that show up in the trees. They’re small details, but they pay off throughout the movie, the latter giving Wingard the opportunity to use new angles and more traditional cutting techniques while still hewing to the found footage concept.īut that’s all finesse, and what a film like this has to deliver on in the most basic sense are scares.
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Setting up a modern found footage movie requires going through some pretty rote beats, but Barrett and Wingard make it as painless as possible by establishing some strong character dynamics - there’s a great will-they-or-won’t-they aspect to James and Lisa’s chemistry - and adding some flashy additions like a drone and a futuristic earpiece camera to the usual assortment of camcorder and GoPro-style footage we’re used to seeing. Its scares are incredibly faithful to the original The gang is generally skeptical of the legends, but their two gothed-out guides (Wes Robinson and The Following’s Valorie Curry) are true believers, and after spending a night in the woods, the familiar creepy noises and stick bundles start showing up.
His friend Lisa (Callie Hernandez, next up in Damien Chazelle’s La La Land) is a film student that needs a subject for her documentary, and decides following James as he investigates the forest - along with their friends Ashley and Peter (Corbin Reid and Brandon Scott) - is the perfect fit. James Allen McCune ( Shameless) plays James, who’s intrigued when new footage is found in the Maryland woods that show someone that could be his missing sister. Obviously, things go very wrong from there, but Blair Witch does one thing undeniably right: reminding the audience why they were freaked out by this franchise in the first place. A direct sequel to the first film, it picks up as the younger brother of one of those original missing documentarians becomes convinced his sister may still be alive somewhere in the woods. That’s the legacy that writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard ( You’re Next, The Guest) are working with in their latest collaboration, Blair Witch. It was raw, scary, and a massive hit that seemed to kick off an unstoppable force - until a rushed-out-the-door sequel killed the franchise dead the very next year.
Back in 1999, filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez terrified audiences with a film that was purportedly cut together from footage shot by three would-be documentarians that vanished in the Maryland woods.
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Movie trends run in cycles, and perhaps the most fascinating thing about the torrent of found footage movies that have assaulted audiences over the past decade is the one franchise that’s been missing: The Blair Witch Project.