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Blair Witch

2016 Directed by Adam Wingard

There's something evil hiding in the woods.

Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

James Allen McCune Callie Hernandez Brandon Scott Corbin Reid Wes Robinson Valorie Curry

Alternative Titles

Šuma, ブレアウィッチ, The Woods, Bleiro ragana, The Blair Witch Project 3 - Blair Witch, Blair Witch: La bruja de Blair, La légende Blair, Blair Witch 20 let poté, Bruxa de Blair

horror thriller

90 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by Lucy ★½ 15

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

a 17 year wait to finally see the witch and she looks like some kind of flying demonic string cheese noodle ass. i quit
Review by womanimal of the juicy brained persuasion yes, i hate men and if it applies that means you! ❤ ★★½ 124

im not sure if it would do anything to improve anyone's chances of survival but regardless i feel like someone really ought to apologize to Ms. Blair Witch. she was tortured to death by shitty colonists and now all she wants to do is live her death peacefully in her fixer upper in the middle of the woods and meddling kids won't leave her alone!! im sorry blair witch. i love and respect you. i won't bother u.
Review by nathaxnne (No War With Iran!!! <3) ★½ 87

Of all the things a movie about a witch-haunted woods must do, especially a movie which grounds itself materially in the documentation process, the provenance by which notice of this haunting is delivered or transmitted to the viewer, the recipient of this transmission, to be haunted itself and in turn to haunt the viewer is the most vital, most important task of such a movie. For what are movies but hauntings themselves? A spectral emanating from the past which attaches itself to a viewer, binds itself and becomes part of. If such a movie is constructed as to resist its own propensity to haunt, and instead is actively cast aside, unhexed even during the viewing, it undoes itself, undoes the pact, the covenant, between the viewer and itself.
Review by DirkH ½ 20

Oh just fuck off, will ya?

But, it's a sequel/reboot! We have to pay homage to the original!

Listen Mr You've-directed-the-guest-so-you-deserve-some-slack-but-you're-awfully-close-to-being-called-mr-Wankard-from-now-on, paying homage does not mean basically copying everything and simply updating it. And how the fuck are you paying homage if you TAKE AWAY EVERY SINGLE BIT OF MYSTERY THAT MADE THE ORIGINAL SO TERRIFYING? (to me, that is. I scare easily.)

But but we've got all these cool cameras and stuff

THAT YOU ONLY USE TO INDUCE EPILEPSY!!

But we've got a drone

FUCK OFF!!

But we're totally expanding the mythology around the Blair Witch

NO YOU'RE NOT YOU DAFT WANKER YOU'RE DESTROYING IT BY ACTUALLY SHOWING EVERYTHING. MY IMAGINATION IS MUCH MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THAT SILLY GENERIC MONSTER DESIGN YOU SHAT OUT!!

but our movie is really

OH JUST FUCK OFF ALREADY!
Review by Arielrocks5 ★ 14

Adam Wingard, if you want to make a "Scooby Doo" movie, go to Warner Brothers and just tell them you want to make a "Scooby Doo" movie. Don't go and waste our time/money by bastardizing a horror classic for the sake of shock value and cheap, Blumhouse worthy scares.

For a film that takes so much pleasure in recreating the most famous sequences in "The Blair Witch Project", it sure does miss the point of the original so much it makes you wonder if they actually saw it or went through the clip notes.

Part of what made "The Blair Witch Project" freaky for many (including myself) is how it starts out as a regular project for a bunch of…
Review by Matt Singer ★★ 4

Next time my wife tries to get me to go camping, I’m just gonna show her this. Camping is unnatural, guys. If men were meant to camp, there wouldn’t be Blair Witches out in the woods making people stand in the corners of dilapidated houses.

Full review at ScreenCrush.

Recent reviews

Review by sgpiccione ★★

There is something evil hiding in the woods, indeed. But, it's not the Blair Witch. It's cheap jumpscares and studio executives. Blair Witch (2016) follows a near identical plot to The Blair Witch Project (1999), but with the addition of jumpscares and spooky color grading. The cast is decent, but the characters that we are supposed to sympathize with feel like little more than cannon fodder. Much like the brief appearance of sunlight in the Witch's hosue, the last few minutes of the film is where it shines. Unfortunately, it is not enough to salvage the mess of this ultimately bland reboot.
Review by Michael Packner ★★★★

I was so excited for this when it was called The Woods or whatever, and then when it was announced that it was a direct Blair Witch Project sequel I flew through the roof with excitement. Add in that Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett were attached and you couldn't keep me from this film. Maybe my expectations were too high and I need to rewatch it with tempered expectations now having already seen it. Don't get me wrong; it's fantastic, but I just feel like it could've been better. The eternal night concept didn't quite sit with me. I don't ever remember that being a thing. The original was so realistic even in it's supernatural basis. This felt more supernatural…
Review by chirpofhorror ★★

It gets an extra star simply because of the final house scene. The movie was otherwise unbearable.

The first two acts felt deeply unplanned, rushed (yet somehow dragged on for a thousand years), and hilariously poorly written with a script hardly fitting of its cast. There were a few interesting ideas thrown in (ie. the temporal shifts for the townies after they wandered off from the main group) but it ultimately felt dull and utterly predictable.

THAT THIRD ACT THO. Callie Hernandez does an incredibly realistic job of portraying the near paralyzing but I-need-to-keep-moving kind of fear befitting the situation and our claustrophobic time spent with her stuck in the basement tunnel almost made the rest of the movie worth…
Review by Matthew Saponar ★★½ 4

nothing new to say about this wack ass haunted house-ization of one of the best horror films EVER but i will take this moment to say stream ALL MY HEROES ARE CORNBALLS by JPEGMAFIA actually wait hot take the netflix DEATH NOTE movie is adam wingard’s best movie and if u disagree ur forgetting that this dude kind of actually sucks a lot of ass and we’re just letting him get away with these movies because dan stevens was hot in THE GUEST??? ONCE??? filthy .....
Review by Mostafa Moharram ★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

My friends are probably dead, I'm alone, wounded and lost in the woods with something creepy hunting us one by one. So, I'll get out my working phone and try to connect to the drone so I can make it fly over the trees and fight an exit from the woods in the absolute darkness of the night.
Review by Ivan Sandoval ★★★½

I don't get why this film was so badly received. It's not really original, and there are a couple of weird story choices, but the creepy atmosphere was perfect and the acting was decent. It's an honest good time.
Review by Marko Virtanen ★★★½

"Heather? Is that you?"

First time when I saw this at the cinema, it was 8,5/10. The more I watch this, less I like it. Still enjoyable ride.

7/10
Review by Arthur ★★★

كعادة افلام الرعب اول نص ساعه مملة بس بعدها يبدا الرعب في تصاعد لين يوصل الى النهاية الرائعه والمرضية
Review by Tyler ★★★★

Not only do I think this is the best Blair Witch movie, I think it's not even close. This one is actually scary, has likable characters, has a satisfying and scary climax, and it expands on the lore of the original without damaging its legacy in any way. I truly don't understand why people didn't like this one, I truly, truly love it.