Hunt A Killer, the guys behind the highly popular murder mystery game, have teamed up with Lionsgate Game to bring you the impending arrival of an exciting new horror subscription game, one which will allow players to get lost in the Black Hills Forest. That’s right! Their new game is based right in the middle of the Blair Witch cinematic universe allowing you to experience the legend of the Blair Witch like it never has been before, in this narrative-driven psychological game. Now what better way to spend your Halloween evening this year?

It’s been 21 years since the release of “The Blair Witch Project”, a movie that was so successful it helped carve out a whole new way of not only shooting horror movies but marketing them as well. It already has a couple of sequels under its belt and no doubt this will be the perfect accompaniment to the franchise and for fans of the movies whilst this time allowing you to really get involved with the action in this tabletop role-playing game set in that terrifying world.

Each “season” of the subscription is made up of 6 boxes or “episodes”, with each of the received boxes filled to the brim with realistic evidence, maps, police reports, clues, documents, ciphers and other pieces of useful information. All of which not only bring you into an horrifying immersive experience but also require your detective-like skills to solve a mystery. Each box is delivered to your door and will need to try and piece things together, discover audio recordings and solve unsettling puzzles as you go. As each box arrives the story will expand and unfold as you complete each “episode”.

Hunt A Killer’s original murder mystery game already has 100,000 active subscribers and we’re certain with this new horror adventure that will see players return to Burkittsville they’re going to bring a lot of fear to a lot of homes. And we’d love to hear how you get on!

Here is the main synopsis for the game:

“Rosemary Kent, a woman who lives on the edge of the infamous Black Hills Forest, needs your help to find her missing son. To reunite the Kent family, you must investigate the mysterious forest yourself. Will you face down the horror of the Blair Witch and those who serve her?”

For more information and to sign up for early access please visit: Hunt a Killer: Blair Witch Game

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Whether it has great re-watch value or not, 1999’s “Blair Witch Project” did its job the first time around. It was 99.99% build-up, but the first time I saw it I was at least nervous that something could happen at any given moment, and the ending is very effective. I admired the filmmakers for coming up with something relatively fresh at the time. Then a sequel was made that did everything wrong and no one seems to want to admit that the first film was any good anymore. The brand name was tarnished somewhat. Now comes this 2016 film from filmmaker Adam Wingard (whose “You’re Next” was genuinely good) that is a kinda sorta sequel involving a supposed relative of one of the characters in the first film. Scripted by Simon Barrett (“Dead Birds”, “Red Sands”, “You’re Next”), I wish I could say that it restores some prestige to the “Blair Witch” name, but it’s actually one of the worst films of its year.

For starters, as with a lot of ‘found footage’ films, the filmmakers are incompetent and shoot themselves in the foot early on. Firstly, we get a corny title card giving us the same basic thing as the original, but with a 2016 technological upgrade. Then I notice the quite recognisable James Allen McCune, or as I called him when I spotted him: That creepy older dude Debbie wanted to hook up with on “Shameless”. 5 minutes in and the central conceit has completely failed. Did no one involved watch the first film? At least those actors were new to me. More importantly, they didn’t seem like they were acting in a fictional film. The same cannot be said of anyone in this film. These people are nothing other than actors playing pretend, though ironically enough McCune is the best actor of the bunch by a country mile. That’s fine for a normal horror film where you suspend disbelief for 90 minutes. A ‘found footage’ flick however, must go the extra mile in convincing you that what you are seeing is real, even though you know it’s not because you’ve consciously decided to watch a fictional film in the first place. Still, it’s a small but important thing that a film like this absolutely must get right or else the whole thing collapses. It’s fundamental, and the makers of the original seemed to get it. Wingard…he don’t get it.

The jerky editing is not only infuriating but even though it doesn’t go against the rules, it does take you out of the faux ‘reality’ as well. The original’s footage felt ‘as is’, this feels like it’s already been edited in post-production. I know you don’t want to do things exactly the same way as the original, but this just doesn’t begin to work and Wingard seems to have completely missed the point.

Ryan McDonald

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