10 Best Horror Films To Watch On Netflix This Halloween
5. Blair Witch
The Film:
Coming as something as a surprise when it was released in 2016 - studio Lionsgate carried out some marketing witchcraft of their own by insisting on all press releases this was an original movie called The Woods - Blair Witch is the true sequel to Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's found footage trail blazer.
Cannily bypassing the events of rushed sequel Book Of Shadows, the film stays close to the beaten track of its predecessor, following a group of wannabe documentary makers heading into the woods of Burkittsville.
Director Adam Wingard takes care with his story (The Walking Dead's James Allen McCune gives us something to root for as the brother of Heather Donohue) and through his work on the likes of the V/H/S series and The Guest he is no stranger to creating seat-leaping scare scenes, which Blair Witch has in abundance.
From the appearance of those ominous tree figures to the survivors stumbling on that creepy house we never wanted to return to, the film rarely gives you time to catch your breath.
Big Scare:
A drone is the group's sole way of seeing the wood through the trees, but when lost soul Lisa uses it to find a way of escape, this soon turns into an exercise in terror.