Then again, when I see the younger reviewers on this site tear apart the original BLAIR WITCH as boring and "unscary", then maybe I get a better understanding of the adderall-fueled legions that this movie was trying to target. This movie seems to completely misunderstand everything that made the original terrifying and replace it with dumbed down horror for brainless fans. I thought this could legitimately have a chance to be good, but man was I wrong. I was excited when it was announced that a sequel/remake was coming. This was much more psychological, an intense fear-driven journey through into truly frightening territory. This was horror that was that was not in your face with a villain or brutal deaths. Even more, the style of horror was something that my younger, novice horror mind was not yet used to. Nowadays, indie horror is packed full of found footage, but this was revolutionary to us. If you are too young to remember, it's release then you really can't understand the impact that it had. It had become a mockery of itself by the 90s, though, and we were all so hungry for something fresh to re-kindle horror and this movie took the world by storm. Having grown up in the era of the slasher film, I was more used to horror being much more blatant and gory. I saw it on a date, as a matter of fact, and was blown away. I was in my late teens when THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT came out. Being the age that I am, though, makes me also right in the wheelhouse of the generation who adored the original. I know, as I push past 40 years old, that I am not exactly the target demographic for teenage horror any longer. I simply cannot fathom what some of the horror blogs and websites appreciated about this movie when they gave it such rave reviews. Frankly, I've never much been impressed with his work before this and after seeing this travesty I'm even less impressed. Adam Wingard is considered by many in the horror community to be one of the best young directors coming up right now.
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