(The 2000 cash-in quickie Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 doesn’t count.) The new Blair Witch–directed by horror-genre whiz kid Adam Wingard, whose credits include segments in two of the V/H/S movies as well as the 2011 home-invasion thriller You’re Next–was shot under the title The Woods, and the public wasn’t aware of its connection to The Blair Witch Project until it was shown at Comic-Con in July.īlair Witch is a true sequel, building on specific elements of the first film, even re-creating rather lovingly the original brushy-gloomy forest vegetation. Until recently, almost no one knew that a Blair Witch Project sequel was coming. If the picture didn’t–and still doesn’t–hang together as great craftsmanship, it at least stands as a primo example of horror gimcrackery, and for better or, more likely, worse, it ushered in the era of the found-footage horror movie. The group disappeared, leaving just a scattering of video equipment: the film was presented as footage recovered from the doomed expedition, and some early viewers of the film took the bait, believing the footage was real. The Blair Witch Project, directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, was a mostly improvised affair in which three characters venture into the woods near Burkittsville, Md., to make a documentary about the legend of a witch who supposedly haunted the place.
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