20 Movie Sequels That Took WAY Too Long

8. Blair Witch

Though 1999's found footage masterpiece The Blair Witch Project was enough of a pop-culture phenomenon that a sequel was released barely a year later, this non-found footage sequel - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 - was a critical bust and fell far short of the original's box office success.

Even so, it's frankly flabbergasting that Blair Witch fans had to wait another 16 years for a third movie, especially considering both the enduring popularity of the original film and the series' deep vein of largely untapped lore.

The Adam Wingard-directed third Blair Witch film returned to the original found footage style but, releasing in the mid-2010s as it did, of course it went the dull legacy sequel route, serving up a sort-of-but-not-really follow-up to the '99 film.

Fans who'd waited so long for a new film wanted more than a warmed-over rehash of what came before, which combined with the declining popularity of found footage made this a sequel that came at least five years later than it should have.