Review of Blair Witch (2016) by Alexkillsdie — 01 Jan 2017

Blair Witch isn't just a bad film it is also an insult to the far greater original. Amature, forgettable performances clumsily act out a found footage film that drowns in its own redundancy long before the halfway point.

The rushed character development is bad enough, but the unintentionally dislikable characters and gross overacting will have you sighing with boredom when any of them is in any real danger. Oh, and let's not forget the jump scares that are thrown in to compensate for the complete lack of any genuine frights, the hallmark of a truly impotent horror director.

"Why are they filming this!?" is something you will be asking yourself a lot, time after time the characters seem to have zero self awareness as to why they are recording, seems like a strange priority if your life's in danger for a significant amount of time, no? Overall this is a poorly written, poorly directed, poorly acted, poorly edited disgrace to filmmaking that doesn't even come close to capturing the greatness of the original.