“The Widow” (** out of four) was a tepid found-footage horror thriller set in 2017 in St. Petersburg in which a team of volunteers (Vikototoviya Potemina, Anastasiya Gribova, and others) goes searching for a missing search and rescue party but soon find they are overtaken by the same dark and sinister force and that their sanity and safety is threatened. Nowhere near the worst of its type, with decent filmmaking and acting, but takes too long to get going and never rises above the overall routine. Yet another horror film obviously inspired by “The Blair Witch Project” and blatantly ripping-off “The Descent.”

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