BLAIR WITCH (2016) Ending Explained

On this Ending Explained, we'll be looking at BLAIR WITCH (2016). There's a lot of new concepts introduced, and many questions left unanswered in the film. Whose reflection do we see in the mysterious footage? Is that monster actually the Blair Witch? And what happened to Heather?

[TheGrandOracle]

Another theory is that the new group is the noise heather josh and mike hear in the original due to the time bending

[TheUndeadPyroYT]

So a blind person can never be killed by the witch.

[ginabeau]

You just gotta throw the whole Forrest away

[jjdavidhope]

Blair Witch 2:

A team of a Russian special agent, an American seal, a British engineer, and a FBI Agent are sent with a bomb to blow the entire woods up.

[DoctorPenguin]

2 things I'll ALWAYS remember about this movie above all else...


*SHAKY CAM* !!!

[LionWithAGun]

ok so if the witch can control the time in the woods could the screams Heather heard in the original that lead her to the cabin be her brothers?

[hannahxx]

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[the_jones]

Guy: "Don't look at her, or you'll die."

Girl: "Ok."

Guy: "Wait, is that my sister behind me?"

Girl: "I don't hear anything, I think the witch is trying to trick you."

Guy: "Oh shit really?"

Girl: "Yea!"

Guy: *turns around*

[luvahadowsdolls]

Someone also theorized that maybe the slender creature was what actually became of Heather.

[NixBuffaloBill]

Seeing how the budget for this film was 5 mil. and it made over 40 mil. I really hope we get another movie that wraps the whole thing up and gives us some answers.

[emanuelzhimrules]

Also! What i noticed was that since its some sort of time loop that when Heather talks to the guy in the corner, its actually her brother which is why he hears her voice and turns around but she dies when he dies and because he was in that time and not with his friend thats why when she spoke to him he didnt hear her because they were next to each other but somehow in different times.

[pastelguts]

I heard this one story of a guy, who lived in the area where they shot the Blair Witch Project, and he was on the older side so he wasnt that fond of all the tourists and stuff showing up bothering everyone. So he'd go into the forest, set up rocks and stuff in weird patterns, and then leave, which managed to scare off some of the annoying tourists. Idk if its true but the thought it pretty funny imo

[Guldrimand]

SlenderWitch looks like a wendigo from until dawn.

[xfinityll]

When I first saw the witch creature, I immediately thought of hagravens from skyrim.

[Uhohlisa]

What I hated about Blair Witch is that in the original + the faux-documentary is that the witch never ever manipulates people to come into the woods- if they enter, then it's fair play (and large groups are safe, as we see in the documentary when the police search & find the original tapes), but it seems ridiculous that she would want to time loop bs to get Heather's brother, who did not enter her land.

[SilverTounge]

Elly Kedward might have been banished for witchcraft, but in the Blair Witch-lore, it's actually an ancient force, known to the local Native Americans in Frederick County, as "Hecaitomix", which dwells in the Black Hills forest and surrounding area. This was added upon in the Blair Witch-games released in 2000 (Volume I-III), and was the main antagonist in the games. An ancient force or demon from another plane. I recall one of the mockumentaries that was released on the old Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) to promote the original movie, they said that even the Natives stayed away from much of the Black Hills, as it was cursed, probably long before Elly Kedward settled in Blair Township. Coffin Rock for instance was an ancient site of sacrifice, and the Natives couldn't drink the water from Tappy East Creek. The stickmen supposedly is to ward off evil, or to work as a "dreamcatcher". In the original movie, there was several alternate endings, one having Michael Williams crusified on a large stickman down in the basement of the Rustin Parr house. This was dropped however. Blair Township was founded in 1634 to protect the western approach to Baltimore from attack from Indians. These attacks never happened, as most Natives stayed away from the area. After the abandonment of Blair, the town fell into legend. People spoke of a boarded up town in the woods which had fallen under the curse of a witch, forcing the residents to leave abruptly. There were also rumors of a cemetery filled with the gravestones of children.
Blair was later rediscovered and settled as Burkittsville in 1824.

[Galantski]

Tommy Wiseau as the Blair Witch: "Oh, hi Heather!"

[Madmongul]

I think the slender creature IS in fact the witch. Remember when Lane told the group that the "witch" wasn't just left to die in the forest, the townspeople had tied ropes and heavy rocks to the witches limbs and essentially created a makeshift rack which stretched the witch's limbs.

[quarantine]

When the final girl dies you actually see that monsters hand smack the camera away in like 2 frames

[BrooksLeibee]

Fantastic breakdown, man! Thanks for the shout-out.
Glad I could provide you some info!