Blair Witch

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Blair Witch

R

2016

1h 29m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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A young man and his friends venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mystery surrounding his missing sister. Many believe her disappearance 17 years earlier is connected to the legend of the Blair Witch. At first the group is hopeful, especially when two locals act as guides through the dark and winding woods. As the night wears on, a visit from a menacing presence soon makes them realize that the legend is all too real, and more sinister than they could have ever imagined.

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Critics Consensus

Blair Witch doles out a handful of effective scares, but aside from a few new twists, it mainly offers a belated rehash of the original -- and far more memorable -- first film.

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Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Complex

02/27/2017

Blair Witch is probably fascinating for young viewers who had never seen the original movie and didn't live through that hype, but for those familiar, it offers nothing new.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

12/28/2016

2/5

The multiple camera angles ensure that just as dread surges -- the waiting was always the hardest part in The Blair Witch Project -- we cut away to something less nerve-wrecking.

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Scott Tobias

GQ

12/05/2016

The microphones on the tiny digital cameras shouldn't be picking up much, but verisimilitude be damned, because Blair Witch renders every snapped stick, crushed leaf, and distant guttural noise as an ear-blistering assault.

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Zach Pope

Zach Pope Reviews

08/07/2023

The Best Blair Witch Film yet that will be looked at in the future as a great footnote for found footage horror movies.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

05/12/2023

4/5

Takes the franchise back to its roots with its filmmaking foundation, trading in the subtleties of that debut film for abject terror for a roller-coaster ride of a film.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

04/11/2022

2.5/4

A few neat ideas and effective jump-scares might entertain audiences, but the film feels like too little, and more than a decade too late.

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Benjamin W.

@Code70 6d

It’s entertaining enough and could’ve been worse, but it falls far short of the first one.

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Peyton W

@CCHS_Football_2834 Jan 20

If your 16+ to see this movie it's pretty good but not good for minors to watch.

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Lloyd S

@Lloyd93 Nov 24

Garbage movie like the first. Don't waste your time watching it, it's exactly the same. Same elements, same story. It was supposed to be a sequel but it sucks so much that it fails.

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Dylan C.

@Dylanthebiguy Nov 3

Could've been worse 😅

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Denny B

@aidenb002 Oct 1

This isn’t a perfect remake of the Blair Witch Project but I actually enjoy it and admittedly, I watch it more often than the original movie. The only things I really don’t like about this is that the cinematography looks way too clean and not gritty enough. The first half of the movie is slow and the color grading isn’t good. The greenery of the forest looks too saturated in color and the characters are not interesting either. But once the action kicks in it’s great. The second half is very dark and I love it, the visuals of the abandoned house are awesome. I also didn’t mind how they physically showed the witch either. I always imagined her as more of a ghostly nun, but I really dig this grey alien-like appearance.

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Demented N

Sep 30

They milk the gimmick from the first movie and never recaptured the magic. 6 Paranormal Activity movies later they decided to jump back on the bandwagon of that style of movie to see if there is any cash left in the cow by making a sequel! I personally hate the whole home video style movie... it was great for the first one but enough....... terrible acting, terrible writing, basically terrible camera skills as well it would have been great if they were watching the found footage and trying to piece the puzzle together. They're trying to solve the mystery but they're also making more found footage for another movie..... because the audience hasn't seen enough never heard of the actors before then again a list stars very seldom star in horror movies.

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Synopsis

A young man and his friends venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mystery surrounding his missing sister. Many believe her disappearance 17 years earlier is connected to the legend of the Blair Witch. At first the group is hopeful, especially when two locals act as guides through the dark and winding woods. As the night wears on, a visit from a menacing presence soon makes them realize that the legend is all too real, and more sinister than they could have ever imagined.

Director: Adam Wingard
Producer: Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Keith Calder, Jessica Calder
Screenwriter: Simon Barrett
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Vertigo Entertainment, Lionsgate Films, Snoot Entertainment, Room 101 Inc.
Rating: R (Some Disturbing Images|Language|Terror)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 16, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 3, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.7M
Runtime: 1h 29m

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