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1	!!Fridge Brilliance
2	* Perhaps Mike standing in the corner meant he was already possessed or simply entered the DespairEventHorizon, but the sequel also offers a secondary explanation: by standing in the corner, refusing to look behind himself, it was perhaps a desperate measure of protecting oneself from the evil entity by refusing to look at it. Dips back into FridgeHorror when this isn't foolproof, however, and he'd either die of starvation and insanity or turn around eventually. ''Especially'' if he had no idea it was actually working.
3	** Folks have also pointed out that Rustin Parr killed CHILDREN with that method, and while it would be fairly easy to order scared and confused children to do that, Mike is an adult who went from desperately trying to find his friends to [[DissonantSerenity quietly standing in a corner like a kid in time-out,]] just a few minutes later. Is he too far over the DespairEventHorizon, or did he get too terrified to struggle anymore? Is the Witch FORCING HIM to face the wall through magic, [[spoiler: so he can hear his friend die and [[AndIMustScream wait for his own death]]?]]
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5	!!Fridge Horror
6	* Knowing the backstory of the Blair Witch legend and before watching the movie opens possibilities. Remember the students finding three odd, innocuous piles of stones around their tent? They signify the imminent murder of certain individuals, hence their position around their tent.
7	* Who is that guy in the corner? What happened? If you recall the beginning of the movie, a man told the story of the child murderer who lived in the woods in the '40s, and how he would take children by pairs into his basement and make one face the corner while he tortured and murdered the other before killing them.
8	** It gets even worse when you read the [[AllThereInTheManual book covering the 'investigation']] of Heather's disappearance. Remember that wall covered with weird writing inside the old house that she runs past close to the end of the film. That was the wall of [[SerialKiller child killer Rustin Parr's]] house, as photographed in crime scene photos taken after his arrest. As the investigator is told:
9	--> ''"It's the same writing."''
10	--> ''"It's the same wall."''
11	--> ''"It's the same house. And that is ''completely impossible'', because [[EldritchLocation that house]] burned to the ground in 1947."''
12	--> ''"Just what is going on up there?''"
13	** Not to mention that it's ''where the tapes were found'' by the archaeologists. And where they'd apparently been buried for decades. Which means that the tapes that show her running past the wall may, via Blair Witch Meets Timey-Wimey, ''already be buried under it'' when she runs by!
14	** And then there's the account of the search party sent out to look for the missing kids. Based on the footage, they were in the same place at the same time as Heather and Mike, but never saw them.

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