Blair Witch (Movie Maniacs) - Action Figure Reviews

Series: Movie Maniacs 4

Craftsmanship: 8.4 out of 10

- First topless female action figure

- Comes with pieces of Josh

- Good detail

- Stands easily

- Scythe fits easily in her right hand

- Cloth plastic cover makes her look ghostly

Playability: 3.0 out of 10

- Sick and twisted

- Small accessories can be lost

- Organic-animalistic nudity

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Blair Witch (Movie Maniacs)

by McFarlane Toys

This particular action figure is the brainchild of Todd McFarlane and marks the first commercial topless female action figure. Don’t believe me about the topless thing? 1) Never doubt me, I always tell the truth and 2) take a closer look. Granted, the

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Blair Witch is not as curvaceous as Abbey Chase or Vampirella (or even human for that matter) but she is topless. I make note of this because it shoots the playability score to hell.

I have to admit that the sculpt and poseability is very good, if on the horrific side. She looks a lot like Todd’s vision of those nasty apple trees in the Wizard of Oz or kind of an

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emaciated Swamp Thing. She’s very organic – with a strange combination of bone, wood, moss, and other forest flora.

Accessories are all dead-on. She comes with a scythe, a bundle of sticks, one of those weird stick figures, and a piece of milky-white burlap to cover her upper half. The bundle of sticks is hinged and opens to reveal a severed tongue, some teeth, and an eye (?) in a tribute to poor Josh from the Blair Witch Project. ("Josh? Josh!?! JOSH!") All the accessories fit her as well. The burlap top drapes over her head and shoulder gives her a shrouded look, which is much more menacing than posing her without it. The scythe fits easily in her right hand and the bundle of twigs fits in the other. I rigged up the stick man to hang from the backdrop.

Straying from the usual statuesque tradition of Movie Maniac figures, Blair Witch is more poseable than most. Not so much in the legs, but the arms have a range of motion that means you can attain different poses.

Playability . . . well, in a word, don’t. I can’t think of any reasons to actually play with Blair Witch. She’s a good display piece. Kids won’t show interest in it. (If they do, maybe they should be in counselling.) Those that want to put a face to the name, since we never actually get to see her in the Blair Witch movies, won’t find anything else. Todd’s done a great job using his imagination to create this figure and I don’t think fans will be disappointed – she’s definitely a Movie Maniac – but for the average Joe I’m not sure what the appeal is.

Note: I've seen two versions of the Blair Witch. The figure not reviewed is known as the "dred locks" version and looks quite different

- Omni