Review of Blair Witch (2016) by Jacob S — 23 Sep 2016

Blair Witch tries to live of the same type of social media campaign as the first film but at the end of the day, it's simply a very cheap effort at a cash grab. They don't really try anything new except for the update in technology which turns out to be worthless anyway as we know no one is surviving.

Perhaps if this was a different year, I could give this movie credit for being a decent soft reboot of the original. But in a year where horror has had a pretty good run of quality films, I can't help but feel that Blair Witch is just a rehash of tropes we've seen done better.

Ultimately Blair Witch is a decent found footage horror film but it comes at a time where the genre needs a rest not a reboot.