Compared to Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, the 2016 sequel, Blair Witch, returns a little more to home with its found footage format, but its most glaring deviation is its overt, on-screen deaths.
The second film in the franchise, 2000’s Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, was not a found footage movie for most of its runtime, and it was not a hit at the box office. (It has since developed a ...
It’s bittersweet” that those handling the franchise have consistently left the original team in the cold when making new entries such as Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows and Adam Wingard’s ...
Every found footage fan knows the genre shifted on its axis with 1999’s The Blair Witch Project. Borrowing foundational elements from The McPherson Tape (UFO Abduction) and Cannibal Holocaust ...
Yet, as soon as it gets into the woods, Blair Witch 2 gets scared. The cleverness disappears, the shaky cam steadies itself and resorts to 35mm and the dialogue is infected with the inanity that ...