 Okay, so now I know more of less. Hey guys, I'm reviewing the Blair Witch here. I'm kind of on a little vacation now. Here go the background and this teeny little cup. But I had to spew spare hours, so I watched the Blair Witch. And there was two reasons why I wanted to see this. One is because I actually kind of respect the aspect of the original film because it came out in 1998 and that was the beginning, really kind of the beginning of all the handheld footage. And it was oddly enough that it was never really used again until the late 2000s with the Blair Witch Project movie, I'm sorry, with the Paranormal Activity movies. I'm a real big fan of the director of this film, Adam Wingard. He did The Guest, which I saw last year, which was a really cool film. He also did the Eyeball segment from Record 2. I also met him when he was filming the film in my hometown. And what was funny too is I'm pretty sure where they were filming was the Old Town Elementary School and that's where most of the film takes place. I believe they shot a lot of it, at least when they get to the house at one point. They definitely shot it in the school's gymnasium on the set or whatever they made. I don't know, maybe. So one thing I'll definitely admit is I was pretty spooked through this film. There's a trait that I do when I know that I feel that a jump scare is coming. I do this. I think my left hand was on my ear almost the entire movie. I don't know why I do it, I just do. Either way, it definitely was able to keep this tension. The beginning of the film is kind of standard. Ooh, documentary group, blah, blah, blah. Gotta go find my sister, blah, blah, blah. So they go out there and they meet with these other guys who have some connection, some information about the whole Blair Witch thing. The whole point is this one guy is looking for a sister and this girl wants to make a documentary on it. And then two expendable black people in the film will also go with him. So when they go out to the forest, everything's kind of okay and then we start to hear things and then the atmosphere starts to get scary. People start getting kind of disappearing. But the one thing that this film does, even though it does it better than the last one, it still does it, is you don't know what's going on, really. There's noises, there's stomping, all these sort of horror noises, but really we have the exact same vagueness from this film as we did with the original film, albeit a higher production value. So that part was cool, but at the same time it was a little bit nicked because I wanted to have more, a little bit more depth in this film than the last one. The last one had as little depth as it did because of the budget. That's when you had a little bit more. You could go into things more. And there was a few camera shots that I thought were going to be kind of interesting, but there were setups. There's just one camera that's watching the campsite for the night, and then they wake up and they see all these things all around the campsite, and I'm like, oh, I'd love to see what happened with the footage that they set up, and then conveniently the battery's gone. I'm like, okay, the Blair Witch is some evil spirit demon that's able to set up all these giant, these big wooden figures all around the campsite, but also have the ability to know to take out that battery of that Sony camcorder. However, now this is when I start to get a little bit nipped with this film, is the jump scares are absolutely everywhere in this film. At one point there's a jump scare where the guy opens up his tent, looks out, looks to the tent on the left is where this girl, the documentary girl's with him, she's supposed to be there, then he looks right, then he looks left again, and she's in front of him. So what did she do? She got out of her tent, went behind his tent while he was looking to the left, and then as he's looking to the right, she comes around him again. That doesn't make any sense. Why would she have done that? That jump scare was totally pointless. There's a few other jump scares that happen in this film that are purely for the sake of jump scares. The logic behind them is just so stupid, and that's the problem is this film starts off as something kind of intelligent, but then it starts to kind of dissuade into normal, very standard stuff. And that's the thing that I thought that was probably the biggest flaw of this film, is that it's standard. We've seen this before. The only thing that was really interesting was when the girl's going through the tunnel that scene is totally pointless, but it actually was a bit scary because of the whole costophobia thing. In the end, the Blair Witch is just something very standard. It has a really cool concept to it, but again, just like the last film, it doesn't really... It tries to speculate on a few different things. I'll admit the last five minutes was absolutely gut-wrenching. I thought that end sequence was really cool. Also, I thought there was a bit of smarts to it. If anyone notices, something that's shown at the very beginning of the film also reappears at the very end. If you notice that good on you, because I was like, oh, that's actually kind of an interesting aspect, but you're not going to talk about it at all, are you? No, you're not. So in the end, I'm going to give the Blair Witch a 4 out of 7. It's an interesting film, but it doesn't really capitalize on one it should have used. The atmosphere is really spooky. I'll give it that, but for a rewatchability sort of sake, it's got nothing, almost nothing to it, except for that one little thing. Anyway, guys, that's all from me. I hope to see you guys next time.