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Things that didn't make sense.. (spoilers)

posted 8 years ago by blairbitchproject
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All in all, I enjoyed this movie for what it was, keeping in mind it's virtually impossible to measure up to a 90s zeitgeist like The Blair Witch Project. A few things in the movie did bother me though and I'm gonna need some explanations...

1 - So... this movie never actually happened? Since that was them in the footage they found, thus giving them no reason to venture into the forest? Or are they trapped inside some purgatory which causes them to relive their deaths? Are they now missing?

2 - What was up with that insect that crawled inside her foot? Did the witch do it? Or was it just a random insect from the water?

3 - WHY DID THEY NOT ALL STAY INSIDE THE SAME TENT? If there's strange noises going on and your friends are vanishing, why the hell wouldn't you all stick together inside the same tent? They left the injured girl all alone, wtf?

4 - What was up with those UFO lights? Is the witch actually an alien?

5 - Why did they remove their shoes to cross that lake when they didn't even know what was in the water...?

6 - Why would he be under the impression his sister is still alive after 20 years? If she's STILL lost in the woods, how the hell did she survive for 20 years?

7 - Why was that local couple experiencing time jumps? Why wouldn't the witch just have killed them instead of toying with them?

8 - At the end, why the hell did she turn around at the sound of James' voice WHEN SHE JUST HEARD HIM GET KILLED?

9 - If they knew the witch couldn't kill you unless you looked at her, then why didn't they just keep their backs to her and escape the house???

[–] sarahkrafft 8 years ago

Also, when James thought he heard his sister speaking before he was killed, we didn't hear what he was hearing on cam, but when lisa had a similar auditory hallucination just moments later, we heard it on cam.

[–] BeOneOfUs 8 years ago

Also, when James thought he heard his sister speaking before he was killed, we didn't hear what he was hearing on cam, but when lisa had a similar auditory hallucination just moments later, we heard it on cam.

My thoughts exactly!
I thought this was an entertaining film but it was not very well thought out.

[–] zachengel-93444 8 years ago

They weren't UFO lights. It was supposed to be the Witch basically fast-forwarding through day to make it night again, hence the whole "eternal night" aspect. And she didn't kill Lane and Talia because she was trying to drive them insane so they would help her. Which is why Lane tries to kill Lisa later on, the witch had driven him insane. They took their shoes off because why would you wanna get your shoes all wet? I'm assuming it would get cold at night in the woods and having wet shoes on probably wouldn't be a good idea. Also if they got their shoes wet and wanted to take them off later, walking around barefoot wouldn't be a great idea either. I feel like Lisa turned around at the end because she was so lost and desperate that she just hoped it was James and she probably was hoping enough to the point where she legitimately thought it was him. Also I feel like maybe the witch was talking to James in his mind while she actually physically talked to Lisa using James' voice? Idk but that seems to be the case.

[–] devil_by_deed 8 years ago

I actually love your explanation about the "alien" light. Best I've read so far. As for the shoe situation, all three of the girls brought along a second pair of shoes. They were wearing Keds-like shoes during the nightime camp scenes and hiking boots all other times.

[–] Gus-69 8 years ago

Daylight doesn't look like that. At. All.

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[–] zachengel-93444 8 years ago

Oh and also James said that he wasn't necessarily looking for his sister, but for anything he could find that might show what actually happened to her. And Lisa did start using her camera to back away at the end, but she lost it when she heard James' voice.

[–] troika19 8 years ago

The Lane stuff makes no sense at all really. We see multiple times that the Witch/Entity needs no help killing people so it doesn't need Lane at all.

I don't know maybe it just likes toying with its victims.

[–] freakinflax 8 years ago

The witch doesn't need help killing, it needs help acquiring/luring people into her woods.

[–] jeebs6 8 years ago

10- why/how can snapping the voodoo stick figure snap a random girl in half, what is the connection??

11 - Why/how did the girl with the invested growth in her leg climb the tree to retrieve the drone? It was night, how was she going to fly it?

[–] Btheatrical 8 years ago

- The girl getting snapped in half wasn't random, she noticed a chunk of her dyed hair tied to the stickman. If the witch takes some of your hair & ties it to a stickman - you better preserve that thing safely in a vault lol

- You could say she was running on desperation... but that whole scene is a bit of a stretch.

[–] Uvtha 8 years ago

I mean I understood the connection, but much like the foot thing it seemed like a non-sequitur "creepy event". Just like a "wouldn't it be cool if..." rather than a purposeful connection to the plot.

[–] mjhart20 8 years ago

5 - Why did they remove their shoes to cross that lake when they didn't even know what was in the water...?

Why *wouldn't* you? Who wants to walk around in wet shoes all day? It's a creek in Maryland--I'd take my chances that the worst thing I'd get was a cut on my foot from the rocks.

In regards to number 10, the doll had her hair. I can't remember how loud/clearly Talia says it, but she freaks out that the doll has her hair, thus making it a voodoo doll. (or, at least, the Blair Witch's equivalent). That's why she got snapped in half when Ashley(?) broke the doll.

[–] IMDbGigalo 8 years ago

Why *wouldn't* you? Who wants to walk around in wet shoes all day? It's a creek in Maryland--I'd take my chances that the worst thing I'd get was a cut on my foot from the rocks.

Because it's a creek in Maryland. A creek bed will always have sharp rocks at the very least if not rusted pieces of metal. Getting a cut underwater is a very bad thing and very likely to get infected.

It was dumb. Only an idiot would do it and someone, especially the medic or Lane/Talia who presumably have camped before, should have lamp-shaded that it was dumb.

[–] mjhart20 8 years ago

It also comes down to personal preference, too. Sure, it might be dumb, but like I said before, I'd rather take the chance of cutting my foot or whatever then walking around in wet shoes all day.

[–] IMDbGigalo 8 years ago

It's not preference. It's stupidity. You can dry your shoes out. You can't regrow a foot.

It is the sort of thing someone would do, though, so it didn't bother me in the movie. It just feels like something one of the others should have said wasn't a good idea.

[–] Geddles 8 years ago

The scene directly following the cross over the creek literally showed them hanging up stuff to dry. Build a fire, dry your footwear, but never *ever* walk into an unknown body of water without shoes unless it's nothing but sand, and even then...

They were dumb and/or unprepared. But I guess since it was part of the main storyline, they had to go barefoot. <eye roll>

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[–] BeOneOfUs 8 years ago

Why/how did the girl with the invested growth in her leg climb the tree to retrieve the drone? It was night, how was she going to fly it?

Yeah, this part made no sense to me either.

[–] rlmartinez9-713-547259 8 years ago

I heard on some podcast that there were scenes taken out of the movie and they might be possibly restored on the dvd/bluray.

the centipede pulled out of the leg scene was longer. I think one of the trailers actually shows a longer version of that. the camera stays on the thing longer and you see it's many legs moving. yet in the movie it seems they used a different scene where the girl removes it but she seems to cover it too much with her hand before getting rid of it.

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 8 years ago

I heard on some podcast that there were scenes taken out of the movie and they might be possibly restored on the dvd/bluray.

the centipede pulled out of the leg scene was longer. I think one of the trailers actually shows a longer version of that. the camera stays on the thing longer and you see it's many legs moving. yet in the movie it seems they used a different scene where the girl removes it but she seems to cover it too much with her hand before getting rid of it.

That's interesting, hopefully the longer version will be on the DVD.

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[–] Dejay 8 years ago

I didn't see it well but I thought it was a stick with some leaves on it.

[–] hitman_frost 8 years ago

Yes. I thought so too. Like she had a root or something similar come up through the ground and stab her in the foot. Then subsequently start growing and infest her leg.

[–] jonathanmarklund 8 years ago

1. Yes, it is a loop, they are now stuck in it and will relive it over and over again.

2. It was a plot hole. They had some idea going with the bumblebees and the foot, but it seems to have been edited out. Some of the rumbling sounds was bee-like.

3. Because the characters have to be stupid in horror movies. It's the law.

4. Yes.

5. To showcase that cityfolks are stupid.

6. See question 3.

7. Each couple get their own timeloop.

8. See question 3.

9. See question 3.