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‘The Blair Witch Project’ Sequel Is “Inevitable”
Eduardo Sanchez, one half of the filmmaking duo behind the found-footage masterpiece The Blair Witch Project, is giving fans hope that one day they may finally get a sequel.
After the 1999 indie hit broke box office records, a sequel was rushed into production. While it has aged pretty well, it definitely put a proverbial dagger in the coffin of the could-have-been mega franchise.
After the resurgence of found-footage, and the popularity of rebooting franchises, it’s only a matter of time until Lionsgate gets behind a new installment of Blair Witch, a franchise that deserves a second coming.
“We have been talking to Lionsgate and there has been a little bit of movement but nothing is concrete,” Sanchez tells DreadCentral “The film seems inevitable to me, but really it’s just a matter of it being the right time. I’m thinking it’s going to happen sooner than later at this point, but I always say that. There’s always rumblings and certain ideas being pushed around and such. While I don’t have anything firm to talk about now, it wouldn’t surprise me if something happened within the next year or two.”
Seriously. A new Blair Witch is a no-brainer like none other. The question is, what direction would it head? Personally, I’d love to see a mix of found-footage and traditional film work that shows a news crew investigating the infamous legend of the Blair Witch, and the kids that went missing in 1999…
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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