10 Movies From 2016 That Really Shouldn’t Have Been Boring
5. Blair Witch
The next movie from the team who created You’re Next and The Guest was always going to be exciting, and the buzz only got louder when it was announced their movie The Woods was actually a stealth Blair Witch sequel.
The early reviews stated the movie was a “game changer” and the convoluted mythology of the series was begging to be explored in another movie. It a shame they pretty much just remade the original then, meaning viewers knew exactly how it would play out. The new elements they brought to the story didn’t add much either, and the scares are often down to characters making eye rollingly dumb choices; maybe next time, don’t climb that tree.
Occasionally Blair Witch will come up a cool idea or shot, but it’s mostly just tedious padding to reach the third act, and by then nobody cares who lives or dies anyway.