The premise of the film revolves around James, who is the sister of Heather from The Blair Witch Project.
For some reason, many call this film a remake, but it's very clearly a sequel set in the same universe as The Blair Witch Project.
Despite what many of the reviews say, Blair Witch is actually a pretty solid take on the franchise's original idea.īefore Halloween and Candyman retconned their franchises with direct sequels to the first film set many years later, Blair Witch did it. When a film is divisive like this one is, with some calling it the worst of the year and others saying it's one of the best, it's begging for a second look. Some people, though the minority, actually really liked it. However, there is a smaller, more quiet, crowd singing the praises of Blair Witch. Currently, it only holds a 38% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was criticized for bad writing, and for rehashing the original film but doing it in a worse way. RELATED: What Was The Monster In Trick 'r Treat?īlair Witch was, much like Book of Shadows, generally not well received at all. After the failure of Book of Shadows, it took 16 years for the franchise to be touched in movie form again, and was done so in Adam Wingard's 2016 film Blair Witch. The intentions feel very muddy, and it just comes off as rushed and inauthentic.
It's maybe not quite as horrendous as people make it seem, it is entertaining, but by no means is it a good movie. The Blair Witch Project's first sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 deserves most of the hate it gets. It spawned two of them and, likely not to anyone's surprise, both were destroyed by critics and audiences. Because of its intense success, of course, there had to be sequels.
It was a unique film, credited with both popularizing the found footage genre as well as being one of the first movies to go viral. The 1999 horror film The Blair Witch Project is an extremely well-known film, not just in the world of horror but of cinema in general.