Heather’s younger brother James (James Allen McCune) realizes the odds are against a family reunion, but “I need to at least try” to find his sister. They discovered recent spooky video clips, which they’ve posted online, that suggest lost girl Heather from the original Blair trio might somehow still be alive. There are now six trekkers instead of three, two of them being Blair Witch believers Lane (Wes Robinson) and Talia (Valorie Curry). This “real” sequel to the haunted and hunted forest chiller is set some 20 years after the original, once again in the dark woods outside the hamlet of Burkittsville, Maryland (actually the B.C. They remain faithful to the simple original premise of modern kids with a movie camera encountering a horrific ancient entity, a vengeful one with a yen for crafts: those bizarre stick figures and rock piles are back.Īlso back with a vengeance is the dizzying “shaky-cam” effect of multiple lenses that always manage to catch something, even when thrown onto the ground by people running for their lives. Wingard and Barrett aren’t trying to reinvent the wail here, which is mostly a good thing.

It premiered to screams of joy in TIFF’s Midnight Madness program this week and it’s now in regular theatres, beginning with Thursday night sneaks. Two horror collaborators, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett ( The Guest, You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die), announce they’ve been secretly working on a sequel to Blair Witch, called just that, with the blessing of Myrick and Sanchez, now executive producers.

Franchise hopes dissolved faster than the Wicked Witch of the West hit by a bucket of water.įast-forward 16 years. They foolishly sold the sequel rights to documentarian Joe Berlinger, who set about deconstructing the first movie with the DOA Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows in 2000. The film was imitated by many but not by original writers/directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. In this latter category we can place The Blair Witch Project, the 1999 woodlands horror phenom that sparked the “found footage” movie genre and haunted many a dream and camping trip. Many myths are worth busting, such as just about anything that comes out Donald Trump’s mouth.Ī few are worth preserving, if only for nostalgic reasons. Starring James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Wes Robinson and Valorie Curry.

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