Blair Witch (2016)

A year before Blair Witch was released, Wingard announced that his next film would be called The Woods. His by now considerable fan base whooped and hollered and impressed critics waited with interest. What transpired was that The Woods was actually a surprise sequel to the classic Blair Witch Project, updating the story by looking at the effect the disappearance of Heather (she of the snot close-up in the first film) had on her younger brother who agrees to return to the scene of her disappearance with friends and mystery vloggers in tow. Deftly weaving new technology into the storyline (drone cams and earpieces with cameras in them), the film finds brand new ways to revisit the terror of its predecessor whilst also layering up the mythology before arriving at a conclusion arguably even more harrowing than that of the first film. Essential horror and essential Wingard.

Blair Witch is available on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD now, alongside a box set with the original Blair Witch Project.

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