Blair Witch

"Adam Wingard's respectful sequel to the 1999 phenomenon has scares and skills aplenty, but can't conjure the original's shock of the new" 

"'Blair Witch' is shot, constructed and executed just like the original. And the slow-build fright fest will please genre purists (...) even if it feels all too familiar to the rest of us" 

"Don't expect any surprises (...) Sticking so slavishly to the original Blair Witch film’s template, the result is a dull retread rather than a full-on reinvention" 

"Every attempt at fright lands with a deadening thud. For shock value, Wingard and cowriter Simon Barrett simply repeat stuff from the original film, only this time louder, lamer, duller and stupider. (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)" 

"The acting and filmmaking are too crude to make you care about what happens to any of them, even though you know pretty much exactly what that will be." 

"An intense, imaginative piece of work – which treads over familiar ground but modestly ventures a bit further in the climax" 

"The only thing mustier than the Blair Witch herself is the found-footage format (...) If 'The Blair Witch Project' signalled a new dawn of horror, 'Blair Witch' is the loud death rattle of a once exciting sub-genre (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"