The Blair Witch Project is back! And it looks like it's going to take a spot at the box office this weekend. According to the review from the pre-release audience surveys, the movie should be able to gross $19 million up to $24 million from Canada and U.S. alone.
The Blair Witch Project, a sequel to the same movie in 1999, is about a group of students in college who decided to travel to Maryland forest to learn more about a woman who have mysteriously disappeared. The mysterious woman is Heather, the same woman seen in the footage from its previous movie.
The woman's brother, James Donahue, received possible evidence that his sister might still be alive. This makes him decide to return to the woods and find his sibling together with the college students and locals who will document his search.
And just like every "The Blair Witch Project" movie, it is presented as if the movie was shot from video recording of the students themselves.
It presents a story that captures the essence of every horror movie that fans, whether young or fans of the old movie, are craving for.
17 years ago, the first "The Blair Witch Project" movie grossed almost $250 million all over the world from a $60,000 cost. Today, its sequel cost $10 million and opened on over 3,000 cinemas.
The movie is directed by Adam Wingard and starred by James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Wes Robinson, Brandon Scott, Corbit Reid, and Valorie Curry.
According to Wingard, he wants to stay loyal to the original movie's style and continue with the found-footage style wherein the characters document their every move using video cameras. The only difference is on this movie, which is set in modern times, the characters are also using earpiece-cams and mini-drones which will give the viewers a different point of view.
