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Our Blair Witch (2016) review sums up the movie as being 'What The Blair Witch Project would be if the original had been made today - which is both a compliment and concession.' One look around online and it quickly becomes clear that more critics than not agree with that assessment, for good and bad. Question is, does that also enhance the movie's substance in the process? By comparison, Blair Witch is filmed in the found-footage style in part as an homage to The Blair Witch Project - which again, itself used found-footage to maintain the illusion of being 'real.' Yet, Blair Witch (2016) clearly aspires to infuse the format with a more polished look and feel than found-footage necessarily demands. While some of these films have been done in the found-footage format for a clear thematic purpose ( Unfriended, for example, is about cyber-bullying), others have arguably been guilty of employing found-footage to lowers costs for what could have otherwise been done as a typical genre film (see the horror/thriller-meets Indiana Jones-style romp As Above, So Below for example).

The past decade has seen the release of found-footage style movies about people who gain super-powers ( Chronicle), raunchy teen comedies ( Project X), gritty cop drama/thrillers ( End of Watch) and even 1980s sci-fi kids adventure throwbacks ( Earth to Echo), among others.

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Maybe a found-footage movie filmed entirely via drone cameras will be next, for better or worse?įound-footage is still predominantly associated with horror/thrillers ( Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity and so forth), but by now it has branched out to encompass several other genres too. After all, this year's Hardcore Henry shows that, if nothing else, a film shot entirely in the first-person perspective can be done (questions of how much potential for creativity there really is in the concept of first-person POV filmmaking aside).

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On the other hand, it's possible that filmmakers will see Blair Witch and come up with fresh ideas for how to make a found-footage film, after being inspired by the technical components that the third Blair Witch brings into play. The third Blair Witch installment, when all is said and done, does indeed often boil down to visually-familiar sequences of characters running away from something offscreen and shaking the camera too much for the audience to get a good look at what's after them - even with its advancements in video recording tech. Nevertheless, the sequel has thus far been unable to escape criticisms that these elements fall short at thematically-enhancing the larger narrative and/or adding a subtext that wasn't present in The Blair Witch Project (that humanity and its technology will never be a match for good old-fashioned 'forces' that we do not fully understand).

Blair Witch (2016) similarly incorporates cutting-edge audio recording equipment, drone cameras and smart cards (among other forms of modern technology) into its storyline.