Blair Witch
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| German title | Blair Witch |
| Original title | Blair Witch |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Adam Wingard |
| script | Simon Barrett |
| production |
Roy Lee , Steven Schneider , Keith Calder , Jess Calder |
| music | Adam Wingard |
| camera | Robby Baumgartner |
| cut | Louis Cioffi |
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Blair Witch is an American horror film directed by Adam Wingard in 2016 . The found footage film is the second sequel to Blair Witch Project (1999) after Blair Witch 2 (2000 ) and was based on a script by Simon Barrett .
action
Student James Donahue one day discovers video footage on the Internet that appears to be of his sister Heather. Heather disappeared without a trace 20 years ago while researching the legend of the Blair Witch in the city of Burkittsville , Maryland . Together with his friends Peter Jones, Ashley Bennett and Lisa Arlington, James then goes on a search for his missing sister. Lisa records the search with a video camera in order to later make a documentary about it. The four students are supported in their search for Heather by the two teenagers Talia and Lane, who had posted the video recordings from a camera they had found on the Internet.
So together they move into the forest and set up camp there for the night. They only wake up the next day in the afternoon and come across strange structures that are hanging on the trees around their camp. When the group is already discouraged and wants to go home again, Lisa suddenly discovers the string on Lane's backpack, which is very similar to the one with which the figures were tied. After Lane and Talia admit to having attached the figures to the trees, the two are banished from the group. Although the four of them wander through the forest for several hours, they arrive back at their old camp because their GPS is not working properly. Lisa starts a drone to get an overview of her surroundings, but it crashes into a tree. Due to an infected foot wound that Ashley sustained the previous day, the group has to set up camp again. Peter goes out to collect firewood, but is chased by an unknown being who causes a nearby tree to fall, seriously wounding Peter. James hears Peter's screams and runs to help him, but when he arrives, Peter is already gone.
During the night, James and Lisa hear more noises. Shortly thereafter, Lane and Talia appear, claiming that they have roamed the forest for five days without seeing a sunrise. Feeling hallucinated, Lane runs away while Talia stays behind. The following morning, James and Lisa find, to their amazement, that it is still night. They find new, larger figures made of sticks hanging around their camp. Talia notices a clump of her hair tied to one of these figures. Ashley, taken aback by Peter's disappearance, again accuses Talia of building these figures and tears the figure apart; Talia's body is suddenly forcibly torn in half too, which only leaves Ashley screaming in fear. When an unknown force lifts their tent into the air, the group breaks apart in a panic. After running for a while, Ashley stops to take care of her wounded foot. Pus flows from the wound as it pulls a root out of it. She then sees the drone in a treetop and climbs it to retrieve it, but slips and falls to the ground, apparently to her death. She is being pulled out of the picture by an unknown force.
A rain shower breaks out when Lisa and James find Rustin Parr's cabin. James thinks he sees his sister upstairs and enters the house. Peter is seen standing in the corner of the room James enters. Shortly afterwards, James realizes that he is being followed and barricades himself in an upstairs room. When Lisa, standing alone outside, sees an elongated, humanoid creature emerge from the forest, she runs in fear and terror into the cellar of the hut. There she finds an aged Lane who pretends to be a puppet of the witch. He pushes Lisa down through a trap door into an underground tunnel. She crawls through the narrow tunnel, but at the end of the tunnel is attacked again by Lane, whom she finally stabs in self-defense. Chased by the figure she'd seen outside, Lisa runs up the stairs and sees the reflection James had previously spotted in the original videos. She runs into James again in the attic and the two observe a fleeting, bright light that shines through the windows and hits the walls before it disappears again. You try to barricade the door to no avail. James orders Lisa to stand in the corner of the room and not to turn around. He desperately apologizes for her fate when a figure you can't see walks into the room. Believing he heard Heather's voice, James turns around and is killed. Lisa uses Lane's video recorder to indirectly see what's behind her. She walks slowly backwards, but when she hears James' apology again, she turns around and is attacked outside of the picture. The camera falls and the picture is black.
background
Adam Wingard started working on "Blair Witch" in 2012. While it was clear that it would be a sequel to The Blair Witch Project , the film was announced for years as The Woods to avoid negative fan reactions. It was not until the premiere on July 23, 2016 at San Diego Comic-Con that all posters were exchanged for “Blair Witch” posters during the performance.
production
The production budget was about five million US dollars . The film grossed $ 20.8 million in North America . In all other areas he made $ 24.4 million, totaling $ 45.2 million.
reception
On Metacritic Blair Witch got a rating of 47/100 points based on 41 reviews, on Rotten Tomatoes a rating of 36%.
- criticism
The international trade press received the film mixed. TV Today said the film escalated "in the last third into one of the most nerve-racking horror scenarios of the season". Adam Wingard turns out to be “a genre fan” who “plays the horror keyboard with little innovation, but is all the more accomplished”.
Web links
- Blair Witch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site for the film (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Blair Witch . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 162364 / K).
- ↑ a b TV Today, issue 20, p. 203.
- ^ Blair Witch (2016). In: Box Office Mojo . Amazon.com , accessed October 4, 2016 .
- ^ Blair Witch Reviews. In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive Inc. , accessed October 4, 2016 .
- ^ Blair Witch (2016). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media, accessed October 4, 2016 .