To me, this is a testament to how well this game adapts its source material. The type of fear I get out of watching the Blair Witch films is very specific (perhaps an instinctual fear of the forest?) and Bloober’s game triggers that exact sensation. Anxiety, happiness, anger – they all have their own form. Certain emotions feel like they take on a specific shape, which I can partially visualize but primarily feel. Something I’ve noticed about myself is that I register emotions as “shapes” in my mind.
BLAIR WITCH WITCH MOVIE
The original Blair Witch movie and a sliver of the vastly inferior 2016 sequel instill a very specific type of fear in me. Bullet can also be reprimanded, but how you treat Bullet affects how he will respond to Ellis over time, and likely affects the ending as well. Ellis can issue multiple commands to bullet – some tied to finding objective markers and others purely sentimental, such as keeping bullet close to you for his own safety (though he cannot be hurt by enemies) and giving him a good scratchy. At his side, Ellis has Bullet, a loveable companion that just might win best video game dog in 2019. Interactions with other characters become more scarce the deeper into the forest Ellis goes, and it’s entirely optional to respond to messages or make an effort to contact the outside world – ostensibly this ties into the many hidden actions that the game tracks to determine the ending unlocked. Ellis has a lifeline to the outside world through a radio and a cellphone, of which he uses to interact with the search party and his ex-girlfriend Jess. The lighting, density of the trees, diversity of the terrain – it all comes together to perfectly recreate the sinister iconic setting.Įllis is an imperfect protagonist struggling from trauma who takes up the cause to find the missing boy to prove to others and himself that he’s capable of redemption – of changing for the better. From the very beginning, the forest inspires unease.
Here they trade the small interiors and hallways of Layers of Fear and Observer for Blair Witch’s expansive, yet surprisingly claustrophobic, Black Hills Forest. Blair Witch, when compared to their last few horror games, is a major setting change for Bloober Team. Aided by his trusty German shepherd, Bullet, Ellis enters the forest, intent on redeeming himself after the mistakes of his past - giving the Blair Witch a new troubled soul to latch onto.Īs I’ve written in all my reviews of previous Bloober Team games, this studio excels at crafting horrific, awe-inspiring imagery that grows increasingly surreal. Disappearances continue to surround Black Hills Forest, and the search for a young boy leads a former police officer named Ellis to join a search party. Bloober Team’s Blair Witch game takes place in 1996, two years after the events of the first film. The fictional lore of the Blair Witch has been fed to us viewers in bite-sized pieces since the release of the original film, with material such as the Curse of the Blair Witch documentary and the 2016 film sequel Blair Witch conservatively expanding on it.
BLAIR WITCH WITCH SERIES
The only thing found was a series of videotapes that captured, but never outright showed, the dark entity that tormented them. In 1994, students Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams ventured into the Black Hills Forest with video cameras to document their pursuit of the local legend. The curse of the Blair Witch became the thing of folklore in Burkittsville, Maryland (the town after it was renamed many years later), but numerous disappearances and strange occurrences within the forest gave locals just enough reason to be skeptical that the story was only just that. It’s a delicious match made in hell.Īccused of witchcraft by children in the town of Blair in the year 1785, a woman named Elly Kedward was bound to a tree in the forest and beaten. Now, a new canonical entry in this iconic series comes to us fans in the form of a first-person survival horror game developed by none other than the horror maestros collectively known as Bloober Team, the creators of the Layers of Fear series and Observer. A masterful composition of looming dread and performances that infect viewers with the anxiety felt by its characters, The Blair Witch Project not only defined the found-footage horror genre, it is also rarely bested, even to this day. The original 1999 The Blair Witch Project is inarguably one of the most influential modern horror films in existence.
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