As a huge fan of the original, I've been pondering how there could have possibly been a better sequel. Not saying this particular version of the film couldn't have improved, but for those saying that it just outright sucked...
What should have the plot been?
How could it have possibly topped or equaled the original?
I think if one person, possibly Lisa had made it back to the vehicles would be a better ending for this film. After watching her crawl through the tunnel and kill Lane it looked as if she would become the heroine of the plot rather than being killed just like everyone else. If she had made it back and had to live with what happened it would be a more sufferable ending.
No. Having people survive just for the sake of a feel-good moment is stupid.
They shouldn't have done the creature reveals. That pretty much ruins the mystery. Even if the spindly creature here ISN'T the witch herself, showing it relegated the psychological horror to a physical form. Something that can be outrun or out-thought. It becomes the archetypal man in a rubber suit. Hell, Lisa pretty much out smarted it by using her camera. From hereon, just wear a pair of VR goggles, or whatever... Immunity from being killed. Yawn!!!
The whole time travel thing. REALLY!? So, if anyone ever does escape, we can look forward to them turning up in newspaper articles of years ago, telling the world at how they time traveled back by witch magic? Yeah, but... no, scrap that plot point yesterday. (see what I did there?) This ties in with my point of survivors for the sake of it. It's bad... Just, NO!
Including gadgetry for the sake of it. Yes, drones are the next big thing to PISS the FAA off with (after laser pointers), but using it to find a single house in a not-clear-at-all clearing in a vast forest? Have you even seen Google Earth? The fact that satellites in orbit struggle finding such things in densely packed woods should tell you a drone flying at a millionth the height will show you *beep* all! Add to that, that Google maps (using its offline maps feature) can be used in the first place..?
And... AND! Since Heather's brother was joining in the search parties for the original group, and the original footage was found under the exact same house he's looking for, why the crap didn't he just ask the other search party members where it was? You know, because there's more than just a slight possibility that even if none of the volunteers knew, there's a *beep* absolute certainty that the police officers leading the searches would know!
And, finally (though I could go on), just don't bother making this rema... Er, sequel! That goes for "Book of Shadows" as well. The original film might not be a masterpiece, but it captured the imagination of the audience. It had a brilliant marketing campaign, and at the time, was fairly original in concept. The sequels added nothing to its story, took away the originals mystique. They featured shallow stereotype characters, shot-for-shot reshots of certain scenes, *beep* AWFUL ACTING, and (at the time of release) a tired concept. In the case of BoS, the idea of people studying the original film while acknowledging it wasn't real, was a decent attempt conceptually, but it was executed poorly.
The whole time travel thing. REALLY!? So, if anyone ever does escape, we can look forward to them turning up in newspaper articles of years ago, telling the world at how they time traveled back by witch magic? Yeah, but... no, scrap that plot point yesterday. (see what I did there?) This ties in with my point of survivors for the sake of it. It's bad... Just, NO!
And... AND! Since Heather's brother was joining in the search parties for the original group, and the original footage was found under the exact same house he's looking for, why the crap didn't he just ask the other search party members where it was? You know, because there's more than just a slight possibility that even if none of the volunteers knew, there's a *beep* absolute certainty that the police officers leading the searches would know!
I'm pretty sure in the original, it was stated the footage was in a backpack buried under the old remains of a house. My point is simply that, if this is true, there are better ways to re-find that house. Instead, the film-makers decide to sweep that logic aside in favour of using drones. Because, drones are new and sparkly!
The original search party never found the house, huh? Well, sorry, but... if any half responsible police authority was given this pack and footage, and if the person finding that backpack wasn't able to lead them to it, they would be doing more than just waving it off after a while. We're talking 3 missing people, with evidence showing menace and possible murder. They'd be forming wall to wall lines of volunteers meters apart going end to end to find the only lead in the case.
Its fair to say this is a plot hole in itself, unless the film-makers are trying to tell us the time travel or alternative reality bollocks stretches to making the house or its foundations dissappear.
And if so, how did the person originally finding the backpack leave the wood to return it to the police anyhow?
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I apologize, you were right, Heather's backpack is found in the ruins of the house (I just looked it up online; it's been a while since I've seen the first movie.)
I was talking about the footage we are shown at the beginning of the movie that Lane uploaded online: the tapes he finds at the base of the tree. As we find out at the end, the tapes he found actually contain the footage that Lisa was recording throughout the entire movie - hence why we see the person in the mirror, both at the start and end of the movie, while she's running through the house.
I'm not saying it's perfectly logical, but that's just what the film seems to imply: that the witch is able to control the warped reality and, in doing so, can make the house re-appear by having it go back to a space in time when the house did exist.
But... I can't say with absolute certainty. I'm just trying to make sense of it based on the information given from the movies. Films that feature time loops always do my head in just thinking about them.
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To start , stop the shake camara already, it wasn't good in the original one
and is not good in this one, for me it doesnt add anything to the movie.
Then, don't rely so much in loud sounds effects to make people jump.
And finally expand the lore of the witch, let the characters at least get to
a point where they uncover at least some of the mystery surrounding the
supernatural events in the woods.
The loud sound effects got annoying quickly.
shareTo be honest, the original Blair Witch was kind of a lightning in a bottle movie. I know it wasn't the first found footage horror movie, but they hadn't been done to death at the time and worked as a novel idea made more interesting via some killer marketing. That can't be replicated. Not saying that you can't make a decent sequel, but I just don't see how those circumstances can be replicated, so the experience will never live up to the first time.
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Yeah, there's not much you can do with the "Blair Witch" anymore, because the whole idea behind it is to keep her mysterious and unrevealed. Once you make her a Jason/Michael Myers/Chucky type horror villain where she is an established character who is objectively revealed for viewers, it ruins the mystery and suspense of the first movie.
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This was fantastic. they kept true to the original and it had some great tension. excellent sequel
shareThe idea of a possessed Heather living in the woods for 20 years and then transferring the evil spirit possessing her to her baby brother, that's terrifying. The Blair Witch turning out to be some stilt-limbed Silent Hill reject is not.
shareI did enjoy this sequel. I wish that if they were going to make another Blair Witch movie that they would've allowed Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick make the prequel they wanted to, though. It would've been interesting to see a period piece with Elly's life leading up to her death and the events after. "The Witch" was a pretty big hit by horror standards so I think it could've done well. The sequel we got isn't bad, though.
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