{"id":13500,"date":"2018-10-06T22:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T02:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/?p=13500"},"modified":"2018-10-06T22:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T02:40:37","slug":"blair-witch-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/blair-witch-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Witch (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This film came out 16 years after Book of Shadows.\u00a0 I had read that it was well received at the film festival.\u00a0 Well, don’t trust film festivals because they are filled with pompous assholes.\u00a0 Lesson learned, right?\u00a0 Let’s get down to business and discuss the plot and try to get through this as quick as possible so I can eat some Count Chocula.<\/p>\n

The plot is simple, which I like.\u00a0 James is the younger brother of Heather from the original.\u00a0 By the way, Book of Shadows basically never happened, for better or worse.\u00a0 James sees a found footage video on YouTube so he gets Lisa, Peter, and Ashley to bring all of their camera gear to find out more info.\u00a0 I get it, for a found footage film, everybody needs some kind of camera, but damn, it feels silly at times.\u00a0 So they meet up with Lane and his sister, Talia.\u00a0 Lane uploaded the video and wants to show them where, but only if he and Talia can come along.\u00a0 Maybe they aren’t related, who cares?<\/p>\n

So they have all this high tech shit, a drone, GPS, walkie-talkies, ear-mounted\u00a0cameras.\u00a0 Shit still happens.\u00a0 Ashley cuts her foot bad and has some parasite or some shit.\u00a0 The first night, apparently Lane and Talia set up some of the figurines, so they get banished from the group.\u00a0 The other 4 want to leave because it’s all been bullshit.\u00a0 They naturally go to leave and make a circle, and Ashley gets progressively worse.<\/p>\n

That’s about where I will stop the spoilers.\u00a0 I think you could surmise most of this shit was going to happen anyway.\u00a0 They showed more of the entity and witch.\u00a0 I was fine with that.\u00a0 What I hated was the insane amount of stupid jump scares.\u00a0 I got sick of it and really stopped paying attention, to be honest.\u00a0 You are not going to win me over with jump scares.\u00a0 What bums me out is that I actually really like the director, Adam Wingard.\u00a0 This wasn’t for me.\u00a0 This felt way more fantasy and less horror at times.\u00a0 I can’t say that enough wasn’t explained because I probably wasn’t paying attention, so I will accept that loss.\u00a0 Why the 5 nights without sunshine stuff though?\u00a0 Why add these weird powers, like snapping ____ in half?\u00a0 I have so many questions, and I really am not going to bother trying to find answers.\u00a0 At least the ending was\u00a0satisfying and climatic.<\/p>\n

I want to briefly talk about the acting.\u00a0 I thought that Wes Robinson (Lane) and Valorie Curry (Talia) played their roles exceptionally well.\u00a0 I think Corbin Reid as Ashley also did a good job, and even James Allen McCune did well as James.\u00a0 \u00a0 Callie was fine in the Lisa role, I just didn’t like the role.\u00a0 Brandon Scott as Peter was glaringly meh to me.\u00a0 It was the role more than the actor, I think.\u00a0 He just grated on my nerves way too often.\u00a0 Normally, I like the black dude in horror flicks, so this saddens me.<\/p>\n

Rating: 3.7 This is the worst film I have seen this October of 2018, but I am sure I will see worse.\u00a0 I have been cherry picking, but I thought I would like this.\u00a0 SO I am self admittedly saddened that I have to rate this so lowly.\u00a0 I will probably never see this one again.\u00a0 The jump scares were overly obnoxious and took me right out of the film really fast.\u00a0 By the halfway point, I was ready to tap out.\u00a0 If you like jump scares and found footage, you should really enjoy this one.\u00a0 It was well done for what it was, it just wasn’t for me.<\/p>\n

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