Few weeks ago, I watched the original Blair Witch Project from 1999. I was, honestly, fascinated by it’s story, recording and almost everything. This… This is nothing like it.

After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his vanished sister Heather, James and a group of friends head to the forest believed to be inhabited by the Blair Witch.

Ok, first issue, this movie exists. The Blair Witch Project was supposed to be a standalone movie, the movie without sequels and other bullshit. I have to say that this movie is better than The Book of Shadows, but it’s also not good as the 1999 version. There are a lot of similar moments from the original movie. At the beginning, there is a scene where everyone are in the hotel (the same one from the original) and they are having fun. Those scenes were, literally, recaptured but with the newer camera. Also, everything in this movie, all the conversations are “fake”. I mean, they don’t seem real as those from the original. The original movie feels like a real footage and this looks like “As Above, So Below”. There were some film theories that there is no Blair witch, that the two guys from the original movie were the killers of Heather, but this movie, unfortunately, shows us the Blair witch. I was so disappointed by that because that other theory was pretty good and it made me think for a long time.

The acting in this movie is sometimes good. I can say the same thing for all of the actors. I watched a lot of horror movies so I can say that everything looks the same. There is nothing innovating in acting and I can say that the acting is like in the every single horror movie. They are scared, they are turning to the random noises, going alone in the dark woods… Yeah, going alone in the dark woods, what can possibly go wrong.

The recording in this movie is a disappointment. I was hoping for something like the original. Something better. What I like about the recording was that the cameras were really good synchronized. When you see someone with the camera on that spot pointing to something, it will show the same thing that he is pointing at from the camera’s perspective. The scares are nothing special, but the atmosphere is really creepy sometimes. There are a lot of cheap jump scares that you’ll predict.

At the end, this movie is not scary, but sometimes creepy. The story won’t entertain you and the recording is nothing special. The acting sucks (in most parts) and the movie wasn’t entertaining enough. I wouldn’t recommend this movie even to the horror fans.

My rating: 3/10