Indeed, fans of the original will recognize the shallow creek known as Coffin Rock, where something bad happens to one of the characters here.
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Lest you dismiss the movie as a whole lot of mindless running around, we reassure you that there is a surprisingly well-constructed story amidst the melee, which ties in seamlessly with the original while establishing a clearer order to the hauntings. To reveal any further details would be spoiling the thrill of not knowing what to expect, but let's just say that there is a nice midway twist that divides the group into two camps and leaves each more vulnerable to the hauntings later on. But Lane only agrees to show James where the video was found on one condition – that they bring him and his girlfriend Talia (Valorie Curry) along for the hike, which James eventually acquiesces to despite Peter's objections. Their first stop is the home of 'Darknet 666', aka Lane (Wes Robinson), who had uploaded the video and having grown up in these part of the woods, Lane shares stories of the Blair Witch legend, including one where a father of seven children in the 1940s kills his whole family after claiming to have heard her voice and another where a mother says a hand reached out from under the river in the woods to pull her daughter in. Joining James on his quest to locate his sister are his filmmaker girlfriend Lisa (Callie Hernandez), his best friend Peter (Brandon Scott) and Peter's girlfriend Ashley (Corbin Reid). Rather than going for the convenient of assembling yet another bunch of foolhardy adventurers to go back into the forest, Wingard chooses to establish a much emotional (and logical) raison d'être for flirting with danger – an online video of the house which was last seen in 'The Blair Witch Project', and a fleeting glimpse of a figure which James (James Allen McCune) believes to be that of her missing sister Heather Donahue, one of the three student filmmakers who went missing two decades ago. It would seem folly therefore for any filmmaker to attempt a sequel, let alone reboot, the original and yet, despite our initial skepticism, we were quickly won over by director Adam Wingard and his regular writing collaborator Simon Barrett's tense, gripping and even nail-biting follow-up that stays true to its predecessor while expanding on the mythology of the Blair Witch. That it eventually achieved a lifetime box-office gross of US$250 million made copycats inevitable, but no other horror film since then – aside from the first 'Paranormal Activity' – has been able to replicate its formula to the same winning effect.
Made on a micro-budget of US$60,000, it complemented its then-novel found-footage format with clever marketing which positioned the film we would see as 'recovered footage' shot by the three student filmmakers who had gone missing in the Black Hills Forest of Burkittsville, Maryland while making a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. Who knows what truly happened during their creepy five-day journey into the mouth of madness? Was there, indeed, an intangible supernatural presence in the dark woods that led to the team's disappearance? Either way, the missing trio must have seen something.Love it or hate it, there's no denying that 'The Blair Witch Project' was a landmark film for the horror genre in terms of technique and marketing. Now, one long year later-after that fateful October of 1994-there's still no sign of the student filmmakers, apart from the raw footage they left behind. In search of a local legend, three bold amateur documentarians-director, Heather cameraman, Josh sound recorder, Mike-hike into Burkittsville's gloomy Black Hills Forest to find a shadow: the fabled Blair Witch. Could the nightmarish myth be real? -Nick Riganas Who knows what truly happened during their creepy five-day journey into the mouth of madness? Was there, indeed, an intangible supernatural presence in the dark woods that led to the team's disappearance? Either way, the missing trio must have seen something.
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