Blair Witch Aka The Woods

Instead of unsettled or rattled, I feel exhausted and frustrated. I've just got to get away from found footage/cam horror for a while. The on camera/off camera gimmick wore thin real quickly. The camera recording disrupted with interference and the swinging around (there are "ear handle cameras" equipped with GPS tech) gets tired, too. There's this emphasis on disorientation where you enter the Burkittsville woods and never escape because, it seems, the Blair Witch has cursed the area to the point that it almost becomes a type of alternate universe where a giant stick monster (I call it the BUFG, Big Unfriendly Giant) knocks down trees, night is never-ending or when you do wake up and it's light out it is in the afternoon, a foot wound starts to crackle and pulsate on its own, a leg wound produces this worm/centipede that oozes out, a drone plane camera in a tree causes a trip up to retrieve it ending in disaster when "it" pulls the person off with her crashing to the ground and pulled out of our line of sight, a couple who introduced the leads to the woods pretending to be knowledgeable of the area only to be sent off for their fraudulence return telling them they were gone five days while it feels like only hours, a rainstorm and light show bombard the rickety cabin last seen in The Blair Witch Project as Heather and Mike went after the anguished sounds of Josh, an assault in that cabin where one of the leads is knocked in the noggin and tossed in a pit connected to gopher-hole tunnels (not for those squeamish claustrophobia) as she tries to find a way out, giant twine-and-stick figures hanging from branches, and the breaking of one of these figures literally turning someone into a human pretzel. One potential shot of what appeared to be an old woman in the cabin the brother of Heather believes is his sister, ragged and disheveled, could or could not be the Blair Witch. This follow-up tries to tie in the 1999 film but I think because it just isn't that good, those who love that one might can just dismiss the Winegard 2016 film altogether and keep the first separate and unattached.

Two opinions in the theater from behind me...
"That's it?!?!?"
"They waited 17 years for that?!?!"

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