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Cast
- James Allen McCuneJames Donahue
- Callie HernandezLisa Arlington
- Brandon ScottPeter Jones
- Corbin ReidAshley Bennett
- Valorie CurryTalia
- Wes RobinsonLane
- Rei HanceHeather Donahue
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
Blair Witch is shot, constructed and executed just like the original. And the slow-build fright fest will please genre purists — perhaps enough to reinvigorate the potential franchise — even if it feels all too familiar to the rest of us. - 80
Total Film
Wingard and Barrett’s surprise – and surprisingly strong – sequel earns its scares. An effective follow-up to a film that can’t be matched. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Big kudos go out to screenwriter Barrett for creating a script that throws out so many curve balls. Just when you think the story is going in one direction — you get some nice jolts and surprise twists - 70
Screen Daily
It’s an intense, imaginative piece of work – which treads over familiar ground but modestly ventures a bit further in the climax. - 70
The Verge
Wingard and Barrett add a creepy body horror element to the mix early on, and thanks to the forceful sound design there’s a greater sense of some massive, physical thing in the forest than the first film ever had — but Blair Witch is at its best when it’s honoring what has come before. - 67
The Film Stage
It’s a film that not only goes back to the basics, but seems to deliberately steal much of what made the original such a horrific treat. - 60
Variety
Setting up a number of promising kinks in the now-standard found-footage formula, as the seemingly spooked forest begins to close in its hapless victims, Blair Witch disappointingly casts most of them aside for a finale that does little to advance the series’ existing mythos. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
By sticking so slavishly to the original Blair Witch film’s template, the result is a dull retread rather than a full-on reinvention, enlarging the cast numbers this time but sticking to the same basic beats.
