{"id":3983,"date":"2016-09-28T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2016-09-28T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:04:00","slug":"blair-witch-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/blair-witch-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Witch Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Ashton Newton\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-28-at-7.01.43-PM-195x300.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-28-at-7-01-43-pm\" width=\"327\" height=\"503\" class=\"wp-image-4018 alignright\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When \u201cThe Blair Witch Project\u201d was released in 1999, it was met with good reviews. The film created an entirely new genre of horror with documentary style filmmaking which is still used in today\u2019s film making industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new \u201cBlair Witch\u201d follows the events of the original, as main character Heather Donahue\u2019s brother reenters the forest with three friends to search for his sister after revealing new footage showing her alive 20 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At its core, the film is extremely similar to the original; a group of young adults searching the woods with video cameras are haunted by some unknown entity. In plot, it feels like \u201cThe Blair Witch Project\u201d 2.0, with fancier cameras and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">jump scares<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBlair Witch\u201d relies heavily on cheap jump scares while the original didn\u2019t have to. The jump scares were both predictable and never used anything truly terrifying. This cheap tactic was overused and had very few successful payoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the film shines in its distortion of space-time and isolation horror. Like the original, the group seemed to break free of time and space, going in circles, making five or six days feel like a couple of hours. They were powerless, and that was extremely unnerving and anxiety inducing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBlair Witch\u201d is a must see for any fan of the original. Not only is the story directly influenced by it, the folklore behind the Blair Witch, herself, is expanded upon. Story wise, \u201cBlair Witch\u201d succeeds at making the \u201clost in the woods\u201d trope believable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While not a terrible movie, \u201cBlair Witch\u201d fails to capture what made the original so memorable. The film is brought down by its predictable jump scares and familiar plot. \u201cBlair Witch\u201d is at its best when the mainstream jumpy horror is replaced with the isolationist horror of the original. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ashton Newton Entertainment Editor When \u201cThe Blair Witch Project\u201d was released in 1999, it was met with good reviews. The film created an entirely new genre of horror with documentary style filmmaking which is still used in today\u2019s film making industry. 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