Every single beat is repeated, from the getting lost, to the wandering in circles, to the arguing, to a character or characters (spoiler alert) vanishing only to reappear later, to the big finale in the creepy house. This one? If you've seen the first movie, you've seen this one.
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Last week, I admitted that Book of Shadows was a terrible movie in execution but that I give it massive props for at least trying something radically different from the formula. Well, this is the most disappointing aspect of the movie to this reporter. You might be wondering what we get from this point on in terms of a story. For everyone who complains about how unlikable Heather was in the first film, she ain't got nuthin' on this guy. In short, the dude screams "cannon fodder" from the second he appears onscreen. Everything is dumb, an everything is a massive waste of time.
McBitchypants," he immediately begins complaining. Affectionately referred to by someone walking out of my theater viewing as "Mr. Played by Brandon Scott, he's James' best friend and going by what we get in the opening trimester of this flick one has to wonder why he ever agreed to come along in the first place. But the person that I want to talk about is Peter. All of these people? Pretty vanilla, and not terribly captivating. There's also a couple of locals who know the area in Talia (Valorie Curry) and Lane (Wes Robinson). She also had the foresight to bring a drone to tail them into the woods as aid in case of being lost, a gimmick that will pay off later in one of the most unintentionally funny kill scenes in horror history. There's Ashley (Corbin Reid) and the requisite film student character Lisa (Callie Hernandez), which gives us the reason for the whole being filmed. The secondary characters consist mostly of his friends. Unfortunately, we soon begin meeting the rest of the characters who head out into Burkitsville woods to solve the mystery (ruh-roh Raggy - second week in a row that I get to dust out that joke!). We have a logical story device, a solid emotional hook in the sibling searching for his long-list sister, and even a decent-enough actor in McCune playing the lead. Obviously, the disappearance still haunts him, and the discovery of a weird YouTube video that indicates that his sister may still be alive sets the plot in motion. Meet James Donahue (James Allen McCune), all around nice guy who is, you guessed it, the little brother of Heather Donahue from the original film. Sitting in the theater a few months back, the first thing that jumped out at me was that it had a setup.that was essentially the exact same thing that I would have written. Man, I've been on a real negative role lately with this here blog, eh? The epic conclusion: I went on opening night. In short, everything seemed to be lining up for a big triumphant return of the movie that was such a huge part of my high school days. Do people still say that? I doubt it, but count me in. And then the reveal that this was Blair Wich 2016. The advance ad campaign was also pretty creative, with a poster saying merely "The Woods" and Wingard's name attached to it.
The Guest is also pretty damn good, with Dan "The Man" Stevens turning in a tour-de-force performance. His movie You're Next is one of my top 10 horror films of the decade so far. He's been one of the supervising producers of the V/H/S films, and while some segments in those are definitely better than others, they're loads of fun regardless. The reports that Wingard was going to be involved with this project had me excited.
The Haxan Films crew went their separate ways, doing some of their own movies of varying quality and genre, and the entire world seemed to forget about the little movie from 1999 that came along and wiped the floor with all of the slick, witty postmodern slasher flicks of the era.
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And then said film underperformed, and this series laid dormant for a decade and a half. All I know is that they wanted nothing to do with the second film. I don't know exactly what Dan Myrick and Ed Sanchez had in store for the Blair Witch series when the first movie became such a mammoth phenomenon. Starring James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Valorie Curry, Corbin Reid and Wes Robinson