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Same Old Witch, Different Day
Chris Kavan - wrote on 12/21/2016
You know the scariest thing about Blair Witch? The fact that the main character says he was four years old when his sister went missing - because, man, does that make me feel old. In 1999, The Blair Witch Project became the first found footage horror film (a genre that didn't really take off until Paranormal Activity) that I remember most fondly for the last five minutes - but everything leading up to it was questionable at best.
It only took 17 years, but Adam Wingard, in a bit of stealth film making (we didn't even know it was about the Blair Witch until two months prior to its theatrical debut), takes us back to the woods. This time our characters are armed with GPS, drones and walkie-talkies but, come on, you know it's not going to help. It seems all the new-fangled technology in …
