The confusing perspectives, the anxiety-inducing camera work, the absolutely manic acting, the sublime set design. No matter how you feel about the movie, it's clear he succeeded.įrom a filmmaking perspective, I firmly believe the original Blair Witch Project ending will never be topped, especially not in the found footage subgenre.
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During an interview, Simon Barrett, who wrote the script for the 2016 picture, told me (in an aside that never got published) that he specifically wanted to write a "Blair Witch" movie for the die-hards, the people who knew and respected the lore. Though that film takes artistic liberties and creates new conventions for the "Blair Witch" universe to play in, it is clear that it is a direct continuation and heavily influenced by the maddening magic of the original's breathtaking ending.
He enlists three of his friends to join him in setting out to find her-including one friend who is, shocker, a documentary filmmaker-and they end up in a terrifying mess that harkens back to the film that started it all. In director Adam Wingard's continuation, lead character James is Heather's younger brother, who becomes obsessed with finding her in the Black Hills forest after seeing a clip of what appears to be lost footage of Heather's potential last moments in the Rustin Parr house in 1999. In fact, the movie's entire premise hinges on one of the 1999 chiller's final moments. We don't speak of the utterly abysmal sequel "The Blair Witch Project 2: Book of Shadows," but the newer, more honorable installment, 2016's "Blair Witch," spent its 89-minute runtime making homage after homage to the original film. It's hard to understate the utter star power of this ending and how it still holds its own in 2021.
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