The mystique, wonderment, and ultimate dread that should be lingering just isn’t there because all of the things we see are too familiar. But, in 2016, it feels like we’ve seen every type of found footage film and this is just another one of those.
The original was revolutionary and changed the way horror movies were made with its take on the found footage genre. The biggest problem with the new “Blair Witch” is that there is a sense of forcing something down our throats that doesn’t need to be forced. All of this being said, the film grossed over $248 million worldwide with an estimated budget of just more than $500,000.
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Half of the audience found the film disturbing because they truly thought they were seeing a real documentary that somehow got into the hands of a movie studio (however that now seems ridiculous.) The other half found the film boring and lacking a real plot with no scares until the final scenes.
That’s why Myrick and Sánchez’s film was polarizing to audiences. This was an age where the internet had just begun so we couldn’t instantly ask Siri something to find the answer to a question, we were still taking most things at face value. In 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez wrote and directed one of the most successful independent films of all time when they made the critically acclaimed “The Blair Witch Project.” Now, seventeen years later, director Adam Wingard helms a new generation’s “Blair Witch” story which doesn’t veer too much off the course of the original story and still falls to the main criticisms of the first film.įor those of you not around at the time of the release of “The Blair Witch Project,” I’ll give you some background.
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