She starts picking off the terrified campers one by one in the time-honored manner, but all of this seems more like overripe parody than any serious attempt at horror. She also, like some form of Special Forces operative, has the additional talent of putting the woods in perpetual darkness. Horror formulas typically involve rustic locals who are true believers in ghosts and witches here, these are Lane (Wes Robinson) and Talia (Valorie Curry).īefore long, the witch is creating eerie noises and tormenting the campers with her talisman - stick men in the dense foliage. Her brother James (James Allen McCune), convinced that Heather’s still alive, organizes an expedition with college gal pal Lisa (Callie Hernandez), who thinks she can make it a graduate documentary project, and they bring along friends Ashley (Corbin Reid) and Peter (Brandon Scott). It has been 17 years since Heather disappeared in the Black Hills Forest while hunting the Blair Witch.
It’s just that the witch outsmarts them at every turn. The video technology has improved, and the intrepid campers even have a camera drone. Director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett don’t even try to do much with the “found footage” conceit of the original, which added considerably to the claustrophobic terror of a single girl armed with only her video camera.
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