One of the main problems is that it plays out almost exactly like the original Blair Witch Project, albeit a bit more souped up. It is simply an average horror film and in my opinion the worst offering from the directing/writing duo so far. In fact, it's nothing much to write home about at all. Blair Witch isn't a bad film, but it's certainly no game-changer. Unfortunately I came out extremely disappointed. I avoided all trailers and decided to pop over and see it on opening day, hoping to watch a genuinely scary found footage horror film.

People were calling it a game changer for horror films and one even went so far as to say that the film will wreck you, so of course I was sold. Early Reviews came out and I suddenly became very excited. I love the Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett duo and so I was looking forward to their next project, The Woods which of course turned out to be a secret pseudonym for a sequel to The Blair Witch Project. So when Blair Witch was revealed, I wasn't exactly excited like a lot of people were. There's no big payoff, nothing is ever shown and mostly I just find very boring and tedious. Despite a creepy final ten seconds and an intriguing set-up of the Blair witch legend, the film is basically 80 minutes of people arguing in the woods over a lost map. Personally, I'm not a fan of Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's original film.

Love it or hate it, The Blair Witch Project is an essential piece of filmmaking and a masterpiece of movie marketing which popularised the found footage sub-genre.

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