Thanks to the incredible success of the first film, a sequel (of sorts) was released. Entitled “ Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2“, it took a different approach to the source material, and suffered mightily for it. Its final worldwide gross ended up at just under $48,000,000, not too terrific when it cost $15,000,000 to produce – but still a relative success. Writer Simon Barrett & Director Adam Wingard decide that it’s time for a proper sequel to the original film. After originally being announced as “ The Woods“, its true title was revealed to be “ Blair Witch” a few weeks before its debut. And once the world found out that it was really a sequel, certain unnamed outlets immediately began calling it things like “ A New Beginning For Horror Films“, “ One Of The Scariest Movies Ever Made” and “ A Truly Terrifying Cinematic Experience“. Pardon me if I refuse to suck on the teat of the hype machine. But this is a load of bunk.īut I’m getting ahead of myself, I’ve a tendency to do that. Allow me to recount the plot (such as it is) to you.
James ( James Allen McCune) has been trying to find out what really happened to his sister, Heather, who went off into a part of Burkittsville, MD some years ago with a few of her friends to record a documentary called The Blair Witch Project some 17 years ago. As you well know, none of them were ever seen again, but James has come across a snippet of a online video that seems to feature his long missing sister in it for a second. So he gets a few of his friends together to find the house that video was filmed at, and hopefully find his sister.