![]() ![]() Though that film takes artistic liberties and creates new conventions for the "Blair Witch" universe to play in, it is clear that it is a direct continuation and heavily influenced by the maddening magic of the original's breathtaking ending. He enlists three of his friends to join him in setting out to find her-including one friend who is, shocker, a documentary filmmaker-and they end up in a terrifying mess that harkens back to the film that started it all. In director Adam Wingard's continuation, lead character James is Heather's younger brother, who becomes obsessed with finding her in the Black Hills forest after seeing a clip of what appears to be lost footage of Heather's potential last moments in the Rustin Parr house in 1999. Naturally, it just doesn't suit the story, and ultimately none of these endings ended up making it anywhere but the special features section. It fundamentally changes the film's conclusion, because it insinuates that the source of all this horror has been human, not supernatural. This ending actually does have an effect on the film's plot in the viewer's eyes, because it allows them to assume that Mike is somehow involved in what went on leading up to this point, and that he plans to attack Heather in some way. The final alternate ending flips the script a bit and features Mike facing Heather in the basement, staring her down menacingly. In fact, the general consensus is that these two alternate endings don't actually bring any clarity or closure for the audience. Again, this is a more violent approach, but does nothing for the story, nor does it tie things together at the end. The second alternate ending sees Mike hanged in the basement rather than waiting in the corner for his own punishment to be carried out. That's the only time the children are actually seen or heard in any capacity in the movie, so while it's a fun theory to conceptualize-when revenge is warranted, it's usually a pretty compelling idea, and this would be a pretty unexpected way to utilize that trope-it doesn't exactly come together in the greater context of the entire film and the lore. One of the scariest scenes in the film is when the group finds their tent surrounded by what sounds like small children, who then start to shake the tent violently before the trio takes off into the dark forest like bats out of hell. This theory supposes that the kids Parr killed were behind everything. The last of the lesser theories is one of the least likely, but it is certainly a fun one to think about. Mike does destroy the group's map in a moment of delirious rage, but considering the kind of person his character is, it seems like it was probably just that: a moment of terror and confusion, especially considering how Mike is the first character to start to panic when they start feeling lost. It's kind of a bold theory, considering we don't ever really get any inkling on what they could have against Heather in a way that would make them compelled to do something so sinister to her. One of the more popular lesser theories is that Mike and Josh are the killers, and they were in on it together. Makes sense as to why they heard him screaming in the distance the night before, and if you believe that the Blair Witch's power of manipulation is as strong as legend claims, it's safe to assume he pulled out his own teeth at her behest. When Heather opens the bundle, she finds a pile of bloody teeth inside, which one could gather belong to Josh. ![]() The night after Josh disappears, Heather and Mike hear his agonizing cries far off in the distance-or at least someone they're convinced is Josh-and the next morning, they find a bundle of sticks held together with a ripped piece of his flannel shirt. ![]() The theory even holds water when it goes back further in the timeline. This concept also supposes that Josh's screams on the night Heather and Mike find the Rustin Parr house were a ploy to get the director and the sound guy into the house-meaning he was under the Blair Witch's spell like Rustin Parr was. This idea stems from the fact that Rustin Parr also claimed that a woman instructed him to perform his killings, a woman speculated to be the Blair Witch. The second theory-the still plausible but not the numero uno theory-supposes that the perspective change is actually from Heather to Josh, her and Mike's missing friend.
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