Lisa Arlington: Okay, so the Blair Witch. Who is she really?
Talia: Elly Kedward. That's what most people say. She was accused of witchcraft after some of the children in town said that she'd taken blood from them. There wasn't much of a trial system back then. Townspeople took her out to these woods, tied her to a tree and left her to die of exposure.
Blair Witch (2016)
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Directed by: Adam Wingard
Starring: Valorie Curry, Brandon Scott, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, James Allen McCune, Wes Robinson
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Blair Witch is a direct sequel to the events of The Blair Witch Project, with the brother of one of the victims of the original story setting out with some friends and a film student to try to discover their fate. Equipped with cell phones, GPS, video camera, a drone, supplies, first aid kit, etc. as well as better informed, they "should" be able to deal with whatever they might encounter in the Black Hills forest. Soon, however, they are haunted and hunted, scared and tormented by frighteningly familiar elements from the first film and the still-unseen menace (s). While a bit better than Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, the story suffers heavily from its own time-worn tropes and struggles to evoke any good scares. A bigger budget just didn't translate well onscreen, and recounting for the viewer the legends surrounding the Blair Witch only highlights missed opportunities-ANY one of those stories should have been the film. While this might entertain timid young early teens, others might find better frights at a haunted house amusement.
Trivia: Spoilers: At one point during the climax, you can briefly see a creature with long arms and legs barging through a doorway for a split-second. Many viewers assumed that this was the titular "Blair Witch." However, the screenwriter has stated that any creatures/specters visible in the film are meant to be grotesque manifestations of the witch's past victims (with the long-limbed creature presumably being Heather given she's in the place where Heather died), and that as stated earlier in the film by one of the characters, nobody can actually "see" the witch herself.
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