By Emilio Frenk
Director: Adam Wingward
Cast: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernández, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson and Valorie Curry.
Rating: Poor.
“Blair Witch”, sequel of the 1999 film “The Blair Witch Project” hit the theaters this week and is one of the worst horrors films I´ve seen in a while.
Again the movie takes place in the woods of Maryland and narrates the story of a girl who was investigating the legend of the Blair Witch and dissapears.
Later in the film the brother of the girl named James (James Allen McCune) discovers online footage of the girl who claims is his sister and is determined to make this trip to the woods. In this journey he will be joined by Lisa Arlington (Callie Hernández) a filmmaking student and his closest friends Peter (Brandon Scott) and Ashley (Corbin Reid) who will try to help him find his sister.
Once they arrive to the woods in this journey will be joined by the locals Lane (Wes Robinson) and Talia (Valorie Curry) and try to find Jame’s sibling.
Nothing works at “Blair Witch”. The movie not only is boring from beginning to end but it´s doesn´t scare at all.
There are moments that you jump out of the seat but that is pretty much it. The main problem was in terms of screenplay and the psychological effects I didn´t see them in this sequel.
The first part of 1999 it was one of the things that really scared people was the fact that the psychological element was present in all the movie from the beginning to end and it was more enjoyable and of course real.
I was not impressed of the cast of the film and the direction of Adam Wingward was not effective and created only a carbon copy of the first film and became repetitive.
This year has been remarkable for the horror genre with movies like “The Conjuring 2”, “Lights Out” and “Don´t Breathe” but there are exeptions of movies of the genre that look fake and this was the exact case here.
From the beginning of the movie I was completely alienated and I wanted to leave the theater because nothing happened. There was not a single element that caught my attention in this film.
I don´t understand why even this movie got made in the first place. With “The Blair Witch Project” I think the message was very clear and this movie was completely unnacessary.
With that being said “Blair Witch” is one of the worst films of this year and one of the worst thrillers I´ve seen in a while.