I have to say I am a huge fan of "The Blair Witch Project". Horror films with unseen danger are exactly my cup of tea, so I would maybe even go so far and call it my favorite horror movie of all time. This piece here is a 43-minute add-on, which basically tells us what happened after the film, i.e. how they found the victims, investigated into the matter etc. There are interviews with family members etc. Still, you always have to keep in mind that this is not a real documentary, even if IMDb lists it as such. It's really more of a sequel than anything else, and also more than the actual very weak sequel. There are news telecasts in here, but everything about it is fake and only adds to the myth of the Blair Witch. In my opinion, these 43 minutes are at their best when they stay pretty close to the subject and I did not really care a whole lot about the references to the history of witches or a child murderer. Actually, I believe, if they had done without some of that and kept this film at 30 minutes max maybe, this could have been really great. But, even the way it is, it's still fairly decent, maybe also because this was written and directed by Myrick and Sánchez, the duo that also came up with the original film, a bit of a rarity that you see the original directors also coming up with the making-of. A bit of a pity that the two never came close again to their success from "Blair Witch Project" in the last 15 years and are not really prolific anymore in terms of movie-making. Same can be said about two of the three actors, including Heather Donahue. A bit of a shame that most of the people involved with the movie stayed one-hit wonders. Still, we can be grateful for what they came up with. This is a solid mockumentary here and I recommend it to everybody who loved the original movie.
Review of Curse of the Blair Witch
