Blair Witch

Director Adam Wingard revives the original found footage horror classic.

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That said, there’s much to admire in this “Blair Witch.” The performances are decent, the characters are well fleshed-out and there are more attempts to provide some more light-hearted moments, without completely sacrificing the suspense.

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Adam Wingard's respectful sequel to the 1999 phenomenon has scares and skills aplenty, but can't conjure the original's shock of the new.

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Determined to find his missing sister, a college student (and brother of The Blair Witch Project’s Heather) ropes his friends into going to search for her in the woods she disappeared in. It turns out, unsurprisingly, to be a very bad idea.

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The characters are so thinly sketched that the audience feels little emotional investment in them, and the handheld (or rather head-mounted) cameras produce the same jittery visuals that many viewers found so off-putting in the original.

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It doesn’t suggest documentary footage found in the woods so much as a haunted-house version of Hardcore Henry.

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17 years later, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett (the team behind “You’re Next” and “The Guest”) take us back into the woods for a straight sequel to that film phenomenon, and we all learn that you really can’t ring the same bell twice.

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The tech may be updated, but this remake of the 1999 horror hit follows an all-too-familiar roadmap (now with GPS!)

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Adam Wingard’s sequel, which finds the brother of one of those doomed souls on an ill-advised quest to learn what befell his long-gone sister, exists somewhere in the middle — it's neither as slow nor as elementally terrifying as Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez's found-footage marvel.

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New 'Blair Witch': Bigger budget, bigger hype . . . biggest yawn.

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James Allen McCune and Callie Hernandez head a new troop of young people once more equipped with cameras, looking for trouble in the woods where the "Blair Witch" lives.

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This droning Blair Witch reboot is cursed by the original.

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The acting and filmmaking are too crude to make you care about what happens to any of them, even though you know pretty much exactly what that will be.

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A slick postscript to the 1999 low-budget hit panders to a young audience by swapping the original’s slow-burn for gory theatrics and modern gadgets.

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Barrett throws in a number of small but original twists to the continuing “legend” of the Blair Witch, and Wingard, who also penned the film’s terrific, minimal score, does his damnedest to raise goose bumps, but even a team as talented as these two have little to add to what is, when you think about it, this most ancient of campfire stories.

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Blair Witch runs only eight minutes past the original, yet it feels about a half-hour longer. The new toys — especially the drone — allow for fresh situations, and there’s more blood and supernatural affliction than before. Mostly, though, the filmmakers just repeat familiar moves and expand established locations

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Running and screaming may be essential to a lot of horror movies, but as “Blair Witch” shows, they’re not scary in themselves. For that, you need the stuff between the running and screaming.

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Belated "official" sequel to 1999 hit updates technology but repeats the original's shocks — only much louder and lamer.

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