The problem with Blair Witch is that it's less of a sequel than a kind of modernist-revisionist remake of the firstįilm, perhaps just a little like Gus Van Sant's version of Psycho. Making of documentary on this new Blu-ray, they repeatedly mention that one of their main goals was to get the franchise "back on the rails" and/or Realize that the less said about Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, the better, and in fact in the kind of enjoyably self-deprecating commentary by Adam Windgard and Simon Barrett as well as an exhaustive Seemingly everyone associated with either the first film or this sequel seems to But as I discussed in my now long ago review, I simply wasn't that scared by Theīlair Witch Project and therefore found it an occasionally interesting intellectual exercise that nonetheless failed pretty spectacularly (in my case,Īnyway) to get the adrenaline pumping in any reasonable fashion. Horrifying phenomena (supernatural or otherwise). The fuss was about with regard to the 1999 opus, I at least did get that the film managed to offer its tale in a unique fashion while alsoĪlmost completely eschewing what is traditionally the focus of many, maybe even most, horror films: blood, guts, and on screen depictions of Must have been one hell of a former life you're having to atone for." While I confessed in my The Blair Witch Project Blu-ray review that I frankly didn't really get what all One of my snarkier friends, knowing I had reviewed the original The Blair Witch Project and was slated to review this 2016 sequel, summed up the situation rather piquantly with the comment, "That Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, December 29, 2016