10 Horror Movie Franchises With Only One Great Movie
8. The Blair Witch Project
Few movies can truly claim to have changed the game when it comes to cinema, but the original Blair Witch Project from 1999 is one of them.
The innovator of the found footage style of horror filmmaking, this film presented handheld content as a genuine documentary made by three teenagers who had vanished whilst investigating a haunted forest.
It was an immediate hit and has remained popular even in the wake of dozens of clones. Unfortunately, amongst those imitators was the series itself.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 was released just one year after the original. It got extremely meta, focusing on a group of people fascinated by the first Blair Witch Project movie. This was too much for most people, who decried it as a rip-off of itself.
Then came Blair Witch in 2016, another sequel that completely ignored the events of Book of Shadows. It too was labelled as a rehash of the original.
The Blair Witch took what was a genius idea and drove it into the ground. The first time was pioneering, but the second and third times? Those were just a bit sad.