The Blair Witch Project has similarly left a mark on the horror landscape. So much of the iconography of Alien and Aliens have been borrowed by these games, that when someone comes along with a game based on the Alien intellectual property, it's hard for that game to not feel like it's derivative of one (or all) of the myriad Alien impersonators.
Sci-fi games from Starcraft, to Metroid, to System Shock, to Dead Space have all taken heavy inspiration from Alien and Aliens. Both were innovative horror films that set numerous standards and conventions within their sub-genres, and which have been copied and ripped-off numerous times. ( < indicates platform I played for review)īlair Witch, as an intellectual property, is in a frustrating place similar to the Alien franchise. XBox One < (via retail disc or XBox Live digital download). Never gave me a reason to reprimand the dogĪn atmospheric trek with an over-complicated story.Rizkallah, this special could easily prove more entertaining than the film it promotes. His script weaves in bogus history and legends, but deftly adds nuances of infighting between the FBI and the local sheriff’s department as well as the town residents themselves.Ĭarefully crafted and slickly edited by George P. Writer and director Ben Rock cleverly re-creates the real media hoopla surrounding “Blair Witch” as well as an ensuing backlash by the besieged residents of Burkittsville. His odyssey and those of his four group members makes for the spooky events depicted in “Book 2.” The most fanatical among them is Jeffrey Patterson, who created an elaborate Web site in homage to “Blair Witch Project” and recruited a group of fans to retrace the steps of the three missing filmmakers in the Black Hills. Premise displayed here is that in the wake of all the movie publicity, Goths, Wiccans and folklore fanatics besiege the town of Burkittsville, Md. In the mold of an extremely polished episode of “America’s Most Wanted,” “Shadow” briefly recounts the story of “The Blair Witch Project” and then feeds off into the buzz it created at theaters and on the Internet.
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