A fanedit

[cropsy]

This coming Friday, 3 years ago, Lisa and her friends went into the Black Hills Forrest never to return.
What did return though was a movie that disappointed a lot of people. I'm one of those people.

I started thinking that you could make the movie better by removing things that, not only I didn't care for but also didn't serve the overall story in any way, or lead nowhere.

There are lots of cutting all over the place, but here are the big changes:

-You don't see the witch/one of her victims/ancient evil/whatever
-Ashley doesn't injure her foot
-No drone (except on the table in the garage)
-No GPS feature for the ear piece cameras
-No flying tents
-No light in attic
-Less jump scares
-In the BWP footage you now hear Heather's scream
-Peter doesn't make fun of Lane (he is out there to support his friend, not being a dick)
-Much less digital glitches (they now start to occur when they reach the house)
-Different music playing in Lane's car
-Peter doesn't run around screaming Heathers name in the ending, he also doesn't say that “I thought my sister actually could be out here” (I always felt that, sure he will go out and investigate were that DV tape came from but he can't seriously believe that his sister is still alive in those same woods 20 years after she's gone missing)
-Lisa hear something different that makes her turn around

This ended up being only 53min long (I also took out the end credits) in my opinion the fanedit tells the same overall story so a lot of what I cut out was just unneeded filler, or it didn't led anywhere and as a viewer I felt cheated (ex. the drone, Ashley's injury)

I want to share this fanedit in case there is another soul out there that might feel the same way I do about this movie. If you don't care for it that's fine, I'm not claiming that I fixed the movie or anything. This is just me trying to remove the most annoying bits.

file: mp4
download size: 3,27gb

mega.nz/#!PU1hDL4D!xbDj75fhjDWSfMuOSc6asgV8XgzVlAs7dWK4OdLGn-A

[Anarchist86ed]

Not bad.

[Tweek]

Downloading now. Will give it a look this evening.

[Anarchist86ed]

I could do better. Maybe I will.

[cropsy]

I wouldn't mind. Go for it!

If you could get the edit rendered that is hehe...

[Tweek]

Your cut is much shorter.  And gets to things much quicker.  They're in the woods at 6 minutes!  Ashley gets little screen time and her fate is unknown.  Just runs away and never seen again.  I prefer not seeing "It".  I was curious what song Lane would be listening to in his truck.  Disposable Teens?

Pretty good overall.  If this was my first time seeing the movie I might get confused.  The character intro stuff is cut down to just basically James. 

[Anarchist86ed]

May 10, 2017 15:45:39 GMT -6 cropsy said:

I wouldn't mind. Go for it!

If you could get the edit rendered that is hehe...

True enough.

[cropsy]

To be honest this isn't a particular good movie (Book of Shadows is much much better IMO). In the other movies the story kept building until the very end but this has nothing, nothing new anyway. A loose remake off the original that pretend to be a sequel, and I don't think the storyline pay off or makes sense. They don't even explore the whole reason for the plot we are given; do James really believe Heather can be alive in those woods 20 years after she's gone missing? If yes, how do he explain his beliefs? What is his opinion of The Blair Witch Project, a movie that is supposed to be real footage shot by Heather in this movie's universe. Why don't any of the other characters confront him about how absurd it is to think that Heather “might be out there”?
So yeah there are a lot of flaws in this movie, but somehow I just starting obsessing about it and needed to fanedit it even though in the end it has no soul, unlike the other two movies.

[tizerist]

It's just a shame no deleted scenes have surfaced....would like to see a longer version.
I agree about cutting one or two jump scares out. I think there seven overall.

[cropsy]

The jump scares in this movie felt like a cheat, like "oh it was just a dream". Bad filmmaking.

Yeah would have loved some deleted scenes. The filmmakers say in the commentary track that they cut out a scene that explained that the witch that we see throughout the movie isn't really the witch. Now when that scene isn't present, and Lane tells the story how Elly was stretched, the audience comes to the conclusion that what we see in the movie is the witch. And the writer claims today that that thing isn't the witch..
Bad filmmaking.

[Tweek]

Simon loves jump scares. He says so in the commentary. I find them annoying and consider them lazy writing.

[Savior1981]

IMO, jump scares can be OK if done right and be limited. Think of the original Halloween or Friday the 13th. The problem with this movie, WAAAAYYYYY too many and WAAAAAYYYY too loud. It almost became comical. I still like the movie though

[Tweek]

May 15, 2017 20:49:57 GMT -6 Savior1981 said:

IMO, jump scares can be OK if done right and be limited. Think of the original Halloween or Friday the 13th. The problem with this movie, WAAAAYYYYY too many and WAAAAAYYYY too loud. It almost became comical. I still like the movie though

Yes.  Jump scares should be used sparingly if at all.  Done properly they're fine.  But it's when your movie is just a series of jump scares and nothing else, then it gets annoying.  Horror (for me) is about building suspense and tension.  Jump scares destroy that if they're just placed randomly. 

[Savior1981]

May 28, 2017 11:41:19 GMT -6 Tweek said:

May 15, 2017 20:49:57 GMT -6 Savior1981 said:

IMO, jump scares can be OK if done right and be limited. Think of the original Halloween or Friday the 13th. The problem with this movie, WAAAAYYYYY too many and WAAAAAYYYY too loud. It almost became comical. I still like the movie though

Yes.  Jump scares should be used sparingly if at all.  Done properly they're fine.  But it's when your movie is just a series of jump scares and nothing else, then it gets annoying.  Horror (for me) is about building suspense and tension.  Jump scares destroy that if they're just placed randomly. 

True. But the overabundance of jump scares in this movie did lead to the funniest part in the movie. You know, the part where Lisa says (after a jump scare) "would everyone please stop doin that." Maybe mid-production their was some self realization and she just slipped that line in...

[ghostprints]

"The file you are trying to download is no longer available".

Well ... ALLLLL RIGHTY then.