10 Movie Mysteries That Should NEVER Have Been Answered

The shark in Jaws only worked because audiences didn't see it until well over halfway through the film, a decision that was born due to a faulty prop shark than a conscious decision, but it worked. The Blair Witch Project used the exact same principal. Our imaginations are more powerful than a legion of writers armed with the best CGI, as the best horrors have proven.

Blair Witch (the 2016 sequel) had a genius marketing campaign - trailed simply as 'The Woods,' the film was even endorsed as "a nightmare of classic proportions" by Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out over the teaser footage. When the film turned out to be a third film in the Burkittsville saga, fans were thrilled.

When the witch made an actual appearance in the film, however, fans were not so thrilled. Like a weird, gangly, stilted banshee, the Blair witch went from horror enigma to franchise enabler. It seems crazy that creators Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez were happy for, let alone actively engaged with, a follow-up feature that stood to do more damage than 2000s Book of Shadows, the Papa Roach of horror films.

Exposed, demystified, unveiled and literally walking around the woods naked like the unwanted offspring of Gollum and an albino giraffe, the Blair Witch's power to induce terror was popped like a balloon - which would have been considerably scarier than the movie itself.