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Blair Witch (2016)

More woods that go on endlessly repeating themselves no matter which direction you travel in. JUMP SCARES! More creepy little stick figure totems that mysteriously appear outside of your tent the morning after a sleepless night. JUMP SCARES! Shaky handheld footage of a -JUMP SCARE!- dilapidated house, as a -JUMP SCARE!- long-limbed spectre (definitely not the Blair Witch) gives chase...  As we reach the end of the  Blair Witch  franchise (so far, as recently as 2022 there was talk of another instalment and my fingers are crossed that we get one soon) let's look at the most recent film in the series, 2016's  Blair Witch . Blair Witch is a direct sequel to 1999's The Blair Witch Project, telling the story of James Donahue, whose sister Heather went missing during the events of the original film. James, his three friends and two local guides travel into the Black Hills Forest near Burkittsville, Maryland after a mysterious video is uploaded to YouTube showing a brief glimpse