In the ending? Was that thing that looked much like an alien supposed to be The Witch? And not just its looks but most of the movie kinda pointed out to a third kind encounter direction. the time lost, the lights in the ending...
shareNo, it's the witch. The first film alluded to a time warp with Parr's house still standing despite having been burned down.
The filmmakers are just trolling people. This movie even hints that she manipulates time with the whole "we've been wandering for five days" and the end with Lane saying "he remembers Lisa the way he last saw here" clearly stating there is time manipulation going on.
The lights were the witch's power of going from night to day. I don't know why people are bringing alien abduction when the films no way in any clue hint at that and that the Witch (entity in the woods is clearly demonic, not extraterrestrial)
It is the Blair Witch at the end. Lane describes how she was killed in detail during the film, and her appearance shows just that. The lights in the attic was her manipulating sunlight rapidly.
shareHow isn't that "light" scene a clue and cause for alien contemplation?! Not to mention the "witch" looking like something out of Dead Space.
shareBecause the movie pretty much states what is haunting the woods in all three films. It is established it is supernatural not extraterrestrial. The mythology gives enough explanation.
If people are assuming aliens, fault the people behind this film. The previous two establish it is indeed something ghostly and the spirit of Elly Kedward and not some alien.
You can't use the previous films as reasons to assume something about this film. You have to judge and contemplate on only the given text.
shareThe trivia section says that what we saw wasn't actually the witch, but one of its victims. Any info on that? I am assuming that's just damage control from the filmmakers.
shareThe writer tweeted that when asked about it. He said we never see the witch on screen, that what we see was "someone else". Not something. Presumably someone we know. The only girls unaccounted for are Heather, Ashley and Ellie.
It could be damage control, I don't know. That thing really doesn't fit with the blair witch accounts in TBWP.
I think he also tweeted that Ashley gets sick for a reason and there are theories that she was stretching/becoming part of the forest or whatever. My spec is that what we see is her. The last wee see her something drags her off. We don't know she's dead. If the witch did the ol' pull the teeth out/cut out the tongue, it could explain why it just screams.
Without seeing the script, who can know if they're just deflecting criticism, though.
Does anyone not think that maybe that thing was probably Heather?
sharePersonally to me it makes sense, rather than them deflecting criticism... because outside of the film, speaking creatively, they need to try something to freshen the series up, open new doors. Whether we agree with those creative decisions or not.
shareIt makes sense to me, too. But I hated the thing we saw, so it could be me grabbing hold of anything to make it untrue. :P
I don't mind mystery in a film--I loved the first one--but in this one they went too far and it felt needlessly convoluted with no explanations at all. Why does Lane say she needed someone who remembered them? Much of it seems like it was stuck in there to get people arguing, which is crappy.
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While I agree that each film should be judged on it's own, it is completely fair to allude to TBWP for criticisms of this film.
The thing about this movie is that it's the same universe, the same supernatural force, the same woods, and the stories are even intertwined through blood relation of characters.
When you tell a story in a universe that has established it's mythos and break it, it hurts the quality of the film.
That's actually one of the things I didn't like about this, it seems like more of a reboot than a sequel. Maybe they did this to try and freshen up the material and open doors? I don't know. All I know is that creature scared the living hell out of me. Haha.
shareYea, I honestly think I would've enjoyed this more if it stayed as "The Woods", instead of a Blair Witch tie-in.
shareI don't believe there is a Witch.
My theory is that the woods or some sort of entity in the woods somehow reacts to people's thoughts and fears. The "Witch" only appears as it does in this movie because Lane put that mental image in everyone's heads early in the movie with the story about rocks being used as a makeshift rack.
^ that's feasible but reminds me too much if Stephen King's It (it's your fear being projected back at you). A popular theory at the moment (based on Barrett's comments) is that the creature is Heather. That the movie is about the search for Heather... and they find her alright. But it all just feels like a cop out to me. Why can't a Blair Witch movie just have The Blair Witch blatantly involved? Especially considering this is the third and likely last for quite some time. There are so few current horror icons in cinema at the moment, I wish a filmmaker just committed and gave us a proper portrayal of the title villain, instead of this foot halfway in the door approach.
shareI like this theory too, it fits with the original.
shareThey should've just went with Mary Brown's description of the Blair Witch, an old scary woman, covered in hair, instead of a creature (more alien than witch) from any ordinary horror movie.
It wasnt unique and outside of the unexpectedness of it, it wasnt scary.