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Why would Heather still be alive?

posted 8 years ago by holymbv
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Honestly I didn't ask myself this until the movie ended. But it's been over 10 years since she went missing... How would she survive without food?

I'm open to an explanation or two.

And why didn't he believe that the witch is a real thing after watching the video? How much of the documentary did he see? Because as soon as he sees the hanging stick symbols he's ready to leave. Did he not see that part of the doc?

Again, I'm open to an explanation or two.

[–] ADBruns 8 years ago

Because they needed a plot device. Ridiculous how they act like there's any way she'd be out there, alive, and suddenly seems like she became the Blair Witch, but they're still cool with it. And dumb how they killed the brother earlier and kept the final girl longer, typical gender norm in movies. Heck, they should've just made the little brother a little sister, also named Heather haha.

[–] robertmrosado 8 years ago

And dumb how they killed the brother earlier and kept the final girl longer, typical gender norm in movies.

Nah, in this case, it made sense. Throughout the film, Lisa was written as the more rational of the pair.

And even if they did keep her alive longer, it was only for 30 extra seconds. 💀

[–] mrpink92-2 8 years ago

Honestly I'd have probably killed of the brother first. He was far and away the dumbest of the 4 characters. Well, him and the other girl, but at least she has the excuse of having a severe infection, a parasite, and a high fever, so her doing dumb stuff like trying to get the drone kind of makes sense.

[–] joeishotterthantimberflake 8 years ago

I'm just surprised they didn't bone at some point. I kept waiting for someone to barge in on the tent and see them doing it.

[–] shanepealow 8 years ago

I think he was more looking into how or why she died/went missing rather than actually finding her.

Also I always believed that Heather was actually a witch her self and through the course of the 1999 film she is becoming the witch. But this new one solidified the fact that there was actually a witch the whole time.

[–] juampilescano 8 years ago

The weakest plot point of the entire movie. You have said it my friend. Even if she hadn't got into the house, and kept on running for days through the woods, she was being *beep* by the same hellish force that killed James. On TBWP we learned that the witch had timewarping abilities, and that's how she feeds on her victims. She draws them to another time/dimension, makes them confused, scared and desperate. And when she gets tired of playing with her food she mercilessly finishes her victims.
So, Heather had two options, get killed or starve to death and then die in the woods. This only goes to prove that James is a dickhead. He dragged his friends to a certain death just for his selfish desire of learning what the *beep* happened to her sister.
Where were his parents at? I mean, someone must have tried to convince him that the idea of hunting down a malevolent force is stupid. His sister did it, and she ended up disappearing in a house that doesn't exist anymore.

[–] Wartle 8 years ago

On TBWP we learned that the witch had timewarping abilities, and that's how she feeds on her victims.

No...No we did not. There were fan theories that suggested that possibility, but there's nothing in the movie that actually states that's what's happening. This new movie is jumping off from fan theories that have built over the nearly 20 years since the original film's release and has adopted that theory as being in continuity, but the original film did not say word one about time travel nor is there actually anything in the film that suggests that's really what's happening.

[–] Firebolt102890 8 years ago

Where were his parents at?

I thought about this too! They have spent the last twenty years haunted by the traumatic disappearance of their daughter in a really disturbing and possibly supernatural way, and now the exact same thing happened again to their other kid...

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[–] apriloish 8 years ago

its just being optimistic he cares for his sister so hes just holding out

[–] ADBruns 8 years ago

Hard to understand that though. I mean, on one hand, yeah, I understand hope and familial love. But on the other hand, he was what, 4, when she disappeared? Twenty years ago. How greatly can he really remember her or care on a personal level? Not to say he doesn't care, I'm sure he does, but I felt more like he was using his personal history in an exploitative manner in the hopes of getting more attention for his own project.

[–] Blonde2291 8 years ago

In another movie, Grave Encounters II, the lost guy was alive for 7 years by eating the rats. I guess Heather also did something similar. She ate rats, ant eggs, small insects. They are all full of protein.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. - Charles Dickens

[–] juampilescano 8 years ago

Yeah and the guy lived, if I remember correctly, hiding from the monsters in a ventilation tunnel somewhere inside the hospital. Where the *beep* would Heather live in a forest? On top of a tree? Jumping from one tree to another like a monkey?

[–] Blonde2291 8 years ago

The OP did not ask about the dwellings. But there have been real world examples of people living in the wild for decades. In 2013, they found a son and father living in Vietnamese forests. The father and son ran into the forest during the Vietnam war. They were living there for 41 years eating wild corn, wild fruits and hunting small animals like rats. They made small sheds out of the wood.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3681086/Forced-live-rats-make-loincloths-tree-bark-Man-spent-41-YEARS-living-jungle-fleeing-Vietnam-war-makes-emotional-return-former-home.html

Of course, in the case of Heather she had a witch to worry about. But her brother never believed in any witch in the first place. So he could be thinking that she ran away, ended up in the forest and perhaps was still living there.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. - Charles Dickens

[–] juampilescano 8 years ago

Yeah. And those people you just mentioned were running away from fighting grounds. Now, let's focus on Heather. Why would she want to run away and live like a wild animal in the forest hunting *beep* down like rats or eating berries? I mean, she had no good reason to do it. She was about to graduate as a film director, she was making her thesis on the blair witch, she seemed to love drinking whiskey, *beep* smoking cigarettes and pot, doing normal stuff like a regular twenty-something. Implying that she ran off to live like a hobo in the woods means that she was mentally ill. She didn't struck me as a crazy person at any time throughout the entire film at all. Maybe I should re watch the stuff again. But...

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[–] Wartle 8 years ago

It's been 20 years by the movie's own continuity. Keeping in mind that the original narrative is that the trio from the original flick went missing in 1994. So the answer is... She wouldn't, the movie is built on a plot foundation that's remarkably stupid.

[–] xantny84x 8 years ago

I only saw the film once, but, I'm pretty sure his main thing is to find out what happened to her - not so much thinking she's definitely alive out there. I think one of the characters even asks him "What if she's dead?" and he responds "I still need to know what happened."

I could see if her body were found, him going in the woods would be kind of dumb. But, considering her and her friends were never found, no trace of them, except the videos that were found, maybe he thought he could find something the authorities overlooked.

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[–] juampilescano 8 years ago

Still, that makes him a *beep* What would he be able to find exactly? Going on a camping trip on a creepy forest with six persons? Literally, he deserved what he got. He is a paramedic, not a detective or an experienced cop. If a rescuing party made of hundreds of people couldn't do *beep* what would he do? Even though I only feel bad for the rest of the crew, except for Lane. He and James were two idiots, one knowing the true danger of the forest decided not to warn anybody about the *beep* they were about to experience for spending one single night in the woods. The other one was a selfish prick who thought that his sister still might be alive after twenty years of being missing. The movie itself hints you that the house where Heather died was not in that forest, or even worse, the house didn't even exist. Yet, he ignores the fact that he doesn't know a *beep* thing about protecting yourself from dark magic or surviving in the woods in case that he or his friends get lost.