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TLHGSep 17, 2016

First of all, I think this is definitely worth the ticket! Those who saw the Blair Witch Project at the time it came out, just don`t feed great expectations - you want see nothing that stands apart from general horror movies of the currentFirst of all, I think this is definitely worth the ticket! Those who saw the Blair Witch Project at the time it came out, just don`t feed great expectations - you want see nothing that stands apart from general horror movies of the current decade on Blair Witch (which was definitely a quality of the first one back when it was released). Younger audiences who are being exposed to the franchise through this new movie might have a better time, although, although this movie does not stand alone as a much more interesting experience compared to REC or even the Paranormal Activity movies.
About the flick itself, it is very similar to the first one, but with a much better work in terms of sound editing (very good for any movie standard) and a much better ending, but not so interesting and mysterious first and second acts. Very scary and fun! It could benefit from better characters and actors - they are so stupid that after a while you just want to see them die!… Expand

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sandbornSep 27, 2016

Infinitely better than 'The Blair Witch Project', I was pleasantly surprised at how well-made this movie is. It doesn't drag, and there are hints of a real witch along the journey. Yes, there are needless jump scares but that's just a minorInfinitely better than 'The Blair Witch Project', I was pleasantly surprised at how well-made this movie is. It doesn't drag, and there are hints of a real witch along the journey. Yes, there are needless jump scares but that's just a minor criticism. There's a big payoff at the end, and I really enjoyed the twilight zone aspect of it.… Expand

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C3realkillahSep 18, 2016

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Shock and awe...that's what i experienced during the 90 min runtime of one of the best and effective horror movies I've ever seen next to grave encounters! As the credits rolled i sat and stared smiling as if i was in aBlair witch review:

Shock and awe...that's what i experienced during the 90 min runtime of one of the best and effective horror movies I've ever seen next to grave encounters! As the credits rolled i sat and stared smiling as if i was in a trance, trying to wrap my brain around what I've just seen. I won't go into to much detail as i don't want to spoil anything but i will say this... yes it's a good horror movie and yes it does the blair witch series justice. In fact i think it is shot and written better than the original as it doesn't waste time to get to the good scary stuff and man is it SCARY! it doesn't rely heavily on jump scares altnough there are a few sprinkled about. The real scares come from the unknown and the great filming and sound effects and creepy music work from the director and rest of the movie staff. This movie got under my skin and freaked me out and overall i enjoyed it more than the original. In the end this is one of the few good horror movies to come in a long time. It's scary, interesting, and just a fun watch i recommend it to fans of the original and can say proudly to just forget book of shadows ever happen. This is the true sequel the series deserves and i hope to see more of it in the future. 9/10… Expand

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stone_houseSep 16, 2016

I seem to be in the minority here. I saw this during Tiff's Midnight Madness a week prior to its release, and was able to formulate an opinion prior to the onslaught of negative reviews pouring in from audience and critics alike. I disagreeI seem to be in the minority here. I saw this during Tiff's Midnight Madness a week prior to its release, and was able to formulate an opinion prior to the onslaught of negative reviews pouring in from audience and critics alike. I disagree with anyone saying that the creators, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, were simply cashing in on the franchise. They were clearly obsessed with the original and wanted to continue exploring the concept, in the wake of the disappointing Book of Shadows. They wanted to create a genre film that jolted their audience, one that followed in the footsteps of the original as closely as possible, while expanding on a few key ideas and ramping up the intensity. I thought they were very successful in that regard.… Expand

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SinisterVortexSep 19, 2016

Blair Witch 2016 is cast in exactly the same form as the original. As a stand-alone movie, it think BW2016 accomplishes everything that it tries to do. It is about a group of people stranded on a haunted forest who are subjected toBlair Witch 2016 is cast in exactly the same form as the original. As a stand-alone movie, it think BW2016 accomplishes everything that it tries to do. It is about a group of people stranded on a haunted forest who are subjected to increasingly sinister (and interesting) supernatural occurrences. I would say that said occurrences are more intriguing than those of the original film, and that the reason this one is receiving such low reviews is mostly because it came out after the original. If this version and the first had switched places, I think that this version would be the classic and the other would be the one saddled with the lackluster reviews. Indeed, the movies are extremely similar to each other, both in their premise and content. But setting both side-by-side and judging by which one I found to be more entertaining, I would pick this one (barely) because the stuff which happens in it is just more interesting. In conclusion, I liked it. It definitely could have been better, but as a stand-alone I think it's a fine movie. The reason it's gotten so much flack is because everyone is comparing it to the first movie, which set a very high bar for this one to reach. In any case, I hope a sequel of this is made and that Blair Witch is finally turned into a franchise. I don't know how likely that is to happen, but I would be fine with it if it did.… Expand

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RoadToZionSep 24, 2016

This has to be the most scariest horror film I ever seen, especially the 360 view and the trailers after when It was known as "The Woods", My favourite soundtrack was Hackmarrja by N.K.V.D

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mmmpepsiSep 26, 2016

I wasn't sure what to expect going in with the so-so reviews it's been getting. I did see the original movie, but I was pretty young when I did and remember it being boring, but hey, tastes change as you get older. Went and saw it and II wasn't sure what to expect going in with the so-so reviews it's been getting. I did see the original movie, but I was pretty young when I did and remember it being boring, but hey, tastes change as you get older. Went and saw it and I thought it legitimately had some scary points. It does start slow and take a little while to get going, but once it does it stays at a great pace. I recommend it. Maybe it is a retread of the original, but since it's so long since I've seen that I can't really say. Besides, there's only so much you can do with the premise anyway. Better than other horror movies this year (like The Conjuring 2 which i found to be more funny than scary with the hilariously bad effects. Sometimes less is better.) Worth seeing.… Expand

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finnigan37Sep 21, 2016

I thought this film was a success. Yes, it was similar to the original, but it also did a good job of building tension and doling out just enough of the looming threats to keep the audience wanting more. In this regard it was actuallyI thought this film was a success. Yes, it was similar to the original, but it also did a good job of building tension and doling out just enough of the looming threats to keep the audience wanting more. In this regard it was actually substantially more generous than the original, which keeps it tense and satisfying even though you know what's coming. I think it's being underrated here and is better than a majority of cheesy horror films released every year. If you want a nice fall kind of movie, you could do worse than Blair Witch… Expand

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CaillouPettisOct 13, 2016

Blair Witch may have far too many false jumpscares, but its loud sounds, creepy feel, and dark atmosphere is what makes this movie a great continuation to the Blair Witch Project.

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unmetacrittorSep 21, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Hi, saw this yesterday on big screen. Let's just say..at the end of the
movie, on a half-full theater, all I could sense on people's face was a
certain indifference, a certain disdain, a certain 'what the f...did I
just watch ???', a certain 'this is an utter piece of sh...', and a
certain 'nice. enough...but not so nice - too much.....Nexxxt.' It was
truly a mixed-bag, but more worse than bad. I even heard, when the
end-credits started rolling, a man from a few seats behind say word for
word ''This is sh*t''. Myself, I was neutral, I liked it, enough, but
had a 'missing something' inside feeling, I fell more into the 'hype'
of it and was a bit left 'wanting' more. And for the scary scenes, one
woman was laughing wild (that was quite strange! loll...like some
person laughing at a funeral - awkward), I mean, no one was laughing
(but her)..it was serious matter and scary (people dying in the
movie...and there this woman is laughing at the ridiculness of it all,
I was thinking 'huh...wtf??loll...this isn't funny... but then I
thought to myself...Oh...I understand, she's laughing all the way
because the movie s*cks so bad (for her I mean), she just can't connect
- at all.. I may reveal some spoilers (warning to not read further if
you do not wish I spoil your viewing already). I feel this movie is a
bit of an underdog, again. They shouldn't, but they do, because people
have seen so many (horror or other genre) movies. Blair witch (the
original was incredible (original scary 'woods' story) if a little
exaggerated but that turns out to be scary by 'make belief'of a story
of 'scary witch'that existed in these woods and old lore. The
difference between the original and this one, is mostly budget (while
more budget works in favor some times (more money into story/script),
here it doesn't), the crudy 'NTSC cheap camcorder homevideo' look of
the first one/great story telling/tight acting with a small budget
(60,000$) vs 5 million dollars for this new one. Here, Blair Witch, waits extremely long before the scares come in, way too long; I was getting impatient. last 20 minutes of the movie were the best but SO late in the movie that everyone in the room was 'disconnected' of the
characters' plight. We could not 'engage' and care about any character
because it was too late that they face the 'ordeal' (the witch). The
first part is long and draw out; and does work to bring the 'dread'
factor. There is mystery and the film does a fair job of building
mystery around the lore. The acting is good and 'real'. The witch
itself is never shown and for that it is terryfying (less is more,
showing less monster increases audience imagination and 'wanting to see
it anticipation', hiding the monster is always scarier than showing
it), we hear noises creaks trees and branches cracking to
'reveal/suggest' its presence, it's scary - but it's so late in movie
(about an hour into it) - we can't connect with characters' emotions to
those scary stimulis. Thus, we don't feel tense or sadness when one
character dies by the witch or some deadly hidden force in the dark
woods. The sound design - sadly was non-existent, no musical
atmospheric building, only diegetic forest sounds. Good but made it
lackluster, it would have helped, like this it is sonically flat -
outside of the witch encounters themselves. But the witch's sound were
utterly terrifying (described as like the earth quaking and the trees
trembling like a tree fallingon the ground with a screams of death,
hard to explain, you know this Evil is UTTERLY Evil, it's the demon
pure), far scarier than in The Blair Witch first movie, which the truly
scary moments where when the actors were scared themselves (very well) and when the tent was moving. I have to hand it to the post-production, editing, compositing and CG witch compositing team - d*mn, what a job this was...compositing on this is a compositor's worse nightmare come true - the camera was shaking so much. The final drag of the last surviving woman is quite tense and you do feel for her, and her boyfriend, who tries his best in this. The most other nuisance and it's a killing point that drags the movie down immensely, is the 'home video look' it is taken way too far...assaid the camera does - not - stop - shaking violently (so much it's a total blur, we can't see/make anything but a saccade of blurred pixel colors!). At a certain point I almost had a headache, this is too much shaking, running, video home movie amateur 'shaky cam' 'low reality TV' feel, it ruined the potential (while in first film they dosed it, it was a novelty. One more thing, the last scary scenes show a lot of 1st POV of the camera of the survivor, people generally don't like (I noticed) 1st person point of view of the character, because they can't relate to the character (by not 'reading' the facial emotions in those crucial scenes in terms of emotion), thus they feel these shots seem like a video game 1st-person FPS shooter..rather than a film (this hampers t… Expand

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Lukedabadass267Nov 2, 2016

I'm not a big fan of the old "found footage recorded tape" films but this was suprisingly good it mainly focuses on things that aren't there and the people hearing stuff but if there is somthing on horror scenes it would be had to see I hateI'm not a big fan of the old "found footage recorded tape" films but this was suprisingly good it mainly focuses on things that aren't there and the people hearing stuff but if there is somthing on horror scenes it would be had to see I hate the firs time Blair witch but at its time it was extremely popular… Expand

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Stephanie555Sep 22, 2016

Unlike most of the reviews, I chose not to listen to when deciding to go see this movie, I LOVED it. Granted, it wasn't as good as the first in my opinion, but def held it's own. I took 2 people with me who absolutely are not BlairUnlike most of the reviews, I chose not to listen to when deciding to go see this movie, I LOVED it. Granted, it wasn't as good as the first in my opinion, but def held it's own. I took 2 people with me who absolutely are not Blair Witch fans , and they walked out loving it. If you go into this movie thinking that it will be better than the first , you may be disappointed for sure..... but who can out do the first one??? No one. However this one is scary, fast moving and well worth the watch! i recommend it !… Expand

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infinDec 30, 2016

I loved the first movie, it was so innovative for its time but 2016 is scarier for different reasons. Good horror/suspense taps into the viewer's fear of the unknown and a variety of standard phobias i.e. claustrophopbia (you will beI loved the first movie, it was so innovative for its time but 2016 is scarier for different reasons. Good horror/suspense taps into the viewer's fear of the unknown and a variety of standard phobias i.e. claustrophopbia (you will be terrified in one part), darkness, noises. This film had them all. It does follow the first film's format quite closely but the the thrills are different. I didn't feel as close to the characters.… Expand