Not another Blair Witch reboot

Eight years removed from Adam Wingard’s 2016 reboot, Lionsgate and Blumhouse are once again placing some sticks outside of tents. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate and Blumhouse have signed a multi-film deal to pilfer the Lionsgate vault and “reimagine” some of their horror movies. This will begin with Blair Witch, bumping the 1999 original’s forgotten sequel tally to three.

Of course, there are a lot of variables here. Will this be a found footage movie like the original, a straightforward narrative film like Book Of Shadows, or a mixture of the two, like 2016’s reboot? Maybe it’ll be a video game like the video game. If there was ever a movie that required a video game adaptation, it’s The Blair Witch Project, a $35,000 cheapie about a trio of college kids arguing about some logs that convinced a nation that a malevolent witch spirit haunted the Maryland woods. To be clear, there is still only one good Blair Witch spin-off, and it’s Curse Of The Blair Witch, a SyFy original movie from a time when it was called the Sci-Fi Channel. That’s the movie that actually convinced people Blair Witch Project was a found document, making it even funnier that anyone ever believed it.