Blair Witch

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Blair Witch

R

2016

1h 29m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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A young man and his friends venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mystery surrounding his missing sister. Many believe her disappearance 17 years earlier is connected to the legend of the Blair Witch. At first the group is hopeful, especially when two locals act as guides through the dark and winding woods. As the night wears on, a visit from a menacing presence soon makes them realize that the legend is all too real, and more sinister than they could have ever imagined.

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Critics Consensus

Blair Witch doles out a handful of effective scares, but aside from a few new twists, it mainly offers a belated rehash of the original -- and far more memorable -- first film.

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Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Complex

02/27/2017

Blair Witch is probably fascinating for young viewers who had never seen the original movie and didn't live through that hype, but for those familiar, it offers nothing new.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

12/28/2016

2/5

The multiple camera angles ensure that just as dread surges -- the waiting was always the hardest part in The Blair Witch Project -- we cut away to something less nerve-wrecking.

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Scott Tobias

GQ

12/05/2016

The microphones on the tiny digital cameras shouldn't be picking up much, but verisimilitude be damned, because Blair Witch renders every snapped stick, crushed leaf, and distant guttural noise as an ear-blistering assault.

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Jane Schoenbrun

Filmmaker Magazine

6d

Nothing will work because we don’t want another Blair Witch movie, really. We want to recapture that flicker of what made it feel special in the first place.

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Zach Pope

Zach Pope Reviews

08/07/2023

The Best Blair Witch Film yet that will be looked at in the future as a great footnote for found footage horror movies.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

05/12/2023

4/5

Takes the franchise back to its roots with its filmmaking foundation, trading in the subtleties of that debut film for abject terror for a roller-coaster ride of a film.

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The W

@TheWagners Jul 4

What a shameless sequel/remake, whatever this monstrosity is. It shows what the last movie didn't, the monster which is supposed to be secret. It plays with time which is cool too bad it's wasted on characters we could care less about. Don't watch this movie, just rewatch the first one. Apparently another one is coming out, they won't let this series die.

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Timothy P

@timop1919 Jun 29

Somehow even worse than the first one, which already sucks. These actors are annoying. Really strange that this is so bad considering how much better found footage horror has become.

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TWMax65 T.

@RT38199094 Jun 27

This movie was very tense and kept me interested the whole time, especially watching it with my friends. It had good twists and turns with its plot and like Jaws, it uses the same technique of hiding the main monster/antagonist but still making it feel scary and suspenseful for everybody involved. I was pleased and I already want to watch it again! GREAT directing and filmmaking!

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Alex S

@ArchDraft Jun 7

It's a pretty entertaining movie. I felt like the buildup over the course of the movie had a pretty good payoff at the end.

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Dean F.

@DFtheTruth Apr 13

High-key terrible. Doesn't come near the original and the entity is so aggressive so fast. I like the couple shots we see of the entity but that's pretty much it. The characters learn absolutely nothing and overall just not a great time.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Apr 9

The worldwide gross is $45,173,154.00 over a production budget of $5,000,000.00. Almost 10 times the production budget.

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Synopsis

A young man and his friends venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mystery surrounding his missing sister. Many believe her disappearance 17 years earlier is connected to the legend of the Blair Witch. At first the group is hopeful, especially when two locals act as guides through the dark and winding woods. As the night wears on, a visit from a menacing presence soon makes them realize that the legend is all too real, and more sinister than they could have ever imagined.

Director: Adam Wingard
Producer: Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Keith Calder, Jessica Calder
Screenwriter: Simon Barrett
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Vertigo Entertainment, Lionsgate Films, Snoot Entertainment, Room 101 Inc.
Rating: R (Some Disturbing Images|Language|Terror)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 16, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 3, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.7M
Runtime: 1h 29m