Blair Witch
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Short description
James Donahue has spent years wondering what happened to his sister Heather, who vanished in Maryland's Black Hills woods during a 1994 film project. When a video surfaces that appears to show her, James gathers friends Peter, Ashley and Lisa, a film student, and heads into the same forest to search for answers. Two local residents, Lane and Talia, offer to guide them through the woods. As the group pushes deeper into the dark, the legend of the Blair Witch stops being a story they can dismiss, and a threatening presence closes in around them.
The film is a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, following the brother of that earlier film's missing filmmaker. Adam Wingard directed from a screenplay by Simon Barrett, the pair's second collaboration after You're Next and The Guest; it sits between The Guest and Death Note in Wingard's filmography. James Allen McCune leads a cast that also includes Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Valorie Curry and Wes Robinson.
Produced for about 5 million US dollars, Blair Witch went on to take roughly 45 million worldwide. Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb it holds 5 out of 10 from more than 48,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.3 out of 10 from over 2,000 votes. A critics' rating of 5.3 out of 10 from 226 reviews places professional opinion in much the same range as the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- During preparation for filming the next installment of the 'Blair Witch' franchise, almost all the road signs reading 'Welcome to Burkittsville' were pre-emptively removed at the entrances to the town. After the release of the first and second films, many of these signs were stolen by fans of the franchise.
- To prevent leaks to the press about the film, some episodes were filmed in complete secrecy in Vancouver, while the first film was shot in Patapsco Valley State Park in Maryland, USA. Initially, the film was advertised under the title 'The Woods', and it wasn't until the first trailer was shown at the annual Comic Con international festival in San Diego in 2016, two months before the premiere, that the public learned it would be the third film in the 'Blair Witch' franchise.
- The footage of the first 25 seconds of the film's trailer is structured in the same way as the footage at the very beginning of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980), which director Adam Wingard calls his favorite film.
- To scare the actors and thus prepare them for filming, director Adam Wingard used a megaphone with a diaphragm.
- The film contains no references whatsoever to the events depicted in Joe Berlinger's "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" (2000).
- Unlike "The Blair Witch Project" (Daniel Myrick, 1999), a script was written for the third installment of the franchise.
- The events depicted in the film take place in 2014.
- Sixteen years passed between the release of Joe Berlinger's "The Blair Witch 2: The Book of Shadows" (2000) and the appearance of the third installment of the franchise.
- Director Adam Wingard stated that in "The Blair Witch" (2016), the characters use the very same camera that he used to film "You're Next" (2010), the screenplay for which (as well as the screenplays for many other works by Wingard) was written by Simon Barrett.
- The fictional corporation KPG is mentioned or present in almost all films by the creative duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett. In "V/H/S 2" (2013), one of the characters has a computer eye manufactured by this corporation implanted. In "The Guest" (2013), the father of a family is fired from a position at this corporation. The logo of KPG corporation consists of three triangles forming a fourth. It can be seen in "The Blair Witch Project" (Daniel Myrick, 1999).
- Throughout the film, when the camera is turned on and off, a fleeting frame from Daniel Myrick's "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) briefly flashes on the screen. One can discern, in particular, either a hanged figure or Michael.
- According to Simon Barrett, the creature with long limbs is one of the victims of the Blair Witch, not the witch herself.
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