Review of Blair Witch (2016) by Jarhead335 — 19 Sep 2016

I give it a 3 because I feel this movie is more deserving of being in the negative than mixed category.

It's essentially the first Blair Witch with more jump scares and less innovative cinematography for its time, rife with plenty of moments that make little sense.

Seriously, the entire premise of the movie confounds me. Here are the highlights of confusion:

In his search for his missing sister of 15 years, our protagonist decides to pursue the mystery of her disappearance with a glee-filled, boozed-up romp in the woods she died in? Okie doke. Appearance of a strangely infested wound that looks for all the world like Alien is about to jump out of it, only to have the character die in a completely unrelated manner and never give us an explanation for what the heck that worm she pulled out of her leg was? Check. A strange ability for the video tape being captured before our eyes to warp through time and be the exact video tape that spurred our heroes into action in the first place, thus putting them in pursuit of their own deaths right off the bat, just to have that ending walked back without any explanation of how the video we're watching was also watched by the characters?! HALLELUJAH! Save your money and watch 2015's It Follows instead. That's actually a good movie.

And seriously, filmmakers, don't show us the damn witch. That ruins 90% of what made the original compelling.