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The new curse of Blair Witch: it’s barely scary

Seeking to unravel The Blair Witch Project, Scott, Reid and McCune, from left, have many rivers to cross

IN THE VENN DIAGRAM REPRESENTING people who adore horror movies and those who take them so deeply to heart that they can barely watch them, the intersection is a jagged oval shaped something like the mouth of the guy in Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Some horror fans can devour the grisliest, most upsetting pictures like bonbons and still drift off to dreamland like newborn babes. Others inhale the essence of a horror film so deeply that they face nighttime with dread. I think I’m mostly in that Venn center, the land

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