Blair Witch

"...has scares and skills aplenty, but can't conjure the original's shock of the new."

"It’s a contradiction: both an excellent sequel, and a reminder that, however well you conduct it, lightning never strikes twice."

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

"If The Blair Witch Project signalled a new dawn of horror, Blair Witch is the loud death rattle of a once exciting sub-genre, disappearing into the darkness."

"After the shade, nuance and thrilling scares of the similarly-themed period drama The Witch, this feels shallow, hollow and lifeless."

"Wingard's movie, for all its abundant mischief, doesn't trust the power of its own illusion. You can see these woods a lot more clearly now, and what you see is that you've been here before."

"Unfortunately, despite all the similarities to its predecessor, the most glaring missing element is that sense of spontaneity that made the first film so effective."

"Yet another technically competent, above average but oddly unambitious rehash of a story we’ve seen many times before."