Sixteen years later, we now have a new sequel coming in the form of Blair Witch – and while some may say that the studio should have just let sleeping dogs lie, screenwriter Simon Barrett has a very good reason for bringing the franchise back: the narrative as a whole just had to much potential to be left on the shelf.
It took very little time for The Blair Witch Project to spawn a franchise, with the first sequel released just a little over a year after the original… but it didn’t exactly last a long time.
While some horror franchises have stretched to be more than 10 chapters, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 was so bad that it basically killed the series back in 2000.