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What’s there to reimagine? Blair Witch was a product of the right time and place, and there’s no way to capture that again. Even translating it for the social media era will fall flat, as Creep 1&2 and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair already did that.
There were so many horror movies about cyberspace, video games, VR, and Facebook toward the late 90's, early 2000's too. Even Hellraiser had a film that ventured into this cyberspace horror idea. And it is also the worst one.
Yeah, what new angle will a remake have? The original wasn’t the first found footage horror, but it was the first one to be filmed with amateur cameras with the actors largely improvising the plot with viral marketing to push it. Nowadays they’d have the actors record everything on smart phones or streaming it live on Twitch, but that concept has already been done to death. And without its hook, the film itself is… just ok? I mean, the ending is great, but the rest is not all that interesting without the found footage premise.