Missed Opportunities (Spoilers)

I was so excited for what they might do with the dronecam... I was like "Wow, that's so creative and something I haven't seen done before!"... and then they do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with it. At least Paranormal Activity 4 used the Kinect (also new and creative) and there was SOME payoff with it..

I also wish that Blair Witch had used silence more often than noise... one of my favorite things about the PA movies is how they have you look at a seemingly empty space in complete silence, and for like a minute, trying to predict what's going to happen and from where.. THAT IS SUSPENSE! Love that.

These are great points.

At some point in the film I thought there would be a scene where from the drone they would see the house, or a fire in the distance, or movement of the trees of something big coming toward them. This never happened.

I actually forgot about the camera attached to the tree at the campsite, but yeah they set that up and the film made a point to go back to it a few times in a short space of time...as if something was about to pop up in the background...but nothing.

They could have shown footgae from that camera while they were sleeping that showed a figure outside the tent or something just to build foreboding but nothing.

I agree I wish they did more with the drone. They could have seen a figure in the woods. Or maybe even in the trees. Maybe the "Heather" figure could have been seen for a split second in the trees. And they could of had the witch messing with them making it seem like they were getting to their cars on the drone only to end up back to their campsite.



Also I wish they had them hear Heather, Josh and Mike screaming. They could have used the audio from the first movie when Josh is screaming and Heather and Mike are calling out to him. That would have been in line with the original with them hearing the kids outside their tent. It could have lead up to them being attacked.

I also wish Mary Brown was mentioned. She is one of the most memorable parts of the original and it would have been nice if Lane or Talia mentioned her.

"Notice how I ride side saddle, it proves I'm a lady of quality." Witch Hazel

Brilliant observations! They had so many wasted opportunities here!
When Peter took the bandage off of Ashley's foot, I wondered if the wound would look like the symbol. Then when Ashley rolled her pants up, I thought the same thing.
Peter being alone in the woods at night should have been so much scarier. Instead it's like a tree attacked him. I thought it'd be freaky if perhaps, when he looked down to pick up the wood pile, his camera would flash the Witch for a moment, something we see but he missed.
It was too much to hope we'd get to see the web cam's results while they slept, as that would reveal the magic of the witch. But still, it'd be cool if we got to see a little something there.
Excellent points!

My friend came up with a good idea after we saw this. She thought it would have been cool if Ashley slowly started becoming the witch. It kind of seemed like the movie was going that way with her wound and everything but instead they just killed her off. So much wasted potential.

Something I thought should have been absolutely necessary that the movie did not include was interviewing James about his sister. My main problem with the movie was that James and Lisa were not very well-defined characters, but they're the ones we're stuck with the longest, as all of the interesting characters are killed off first. James's only defining trait is that he is Heather's brother. I think the movie could have played on that in an interesting way by interviewing him about his sister. That way we get a sense of what their relationship was and why he feels the need to go looking for her (he was just 4 at the time she disappeared, so it's not like he knew her well) and it also gives more of a sense of his character through how he describes his feelings about her.