A year after the release of the original film, a group of five Blair Witch aficionados-four out-of-towners led by one seriously unhinged "tour guide"-venture into the woods outside Burkittsville, Maryland, on a tour of the sites made famous by missing documentarians Heather, Mike, and Josh. Don’t be shy and speak up.This thoroughly second-rate follow-up to the groundbreaking (and highly profitable) horror flick The Blair Witch Project-produced by Blair Witch directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez-plays with the notions of reality and fantasy that surrounded the hype of the original movie, and attempts to throw in some scares along the way. I’m still not finished with my edit so I would like to hear comments and suggestions of other horror fans regarding the reworked intro or maybe the idea as a whole. I’ve recently uploaded a preview on Vimeo comparing my reworked intro scene with the original intro seen in the film just to show a small sample of what I’m trying to do. My idea is basically try to rebuilt Joe Berlinger’s original vision of the film cutting out all the unnecessary gore and cheap scare scenes and placing some scenes in their correct order. Since the chances of a ‘Director’s Cut’ getting a release are rather slim given the film’s bad reputation with horror fans, I decided to assemble my own Director’s Cut and share it with other fans like myself. The concept is still interesting and the actors were very much in their characters. The sad thing is, behind all the mess you can see a film that had a lot of potential. Critics thought it was messy, viewers thought it was confusing. The editing was all over the place intercutting nice bonding scenes between the characters with bloody murder flashbacks. The extra scenes and the weird editing made the film look weird, confusing and disconnected. The decisions ended up blowing up in their faces. Not only that, a lot of scenes that were originally meant to appear at the end were scattered through the film to make it more “dynamic” so viewers wouldn’t complain about the pacing.
The studio decided to make sure the sequel would provide those scares so they made director Joe Berlinger add a lot of gore and “on your face” scary scenes to the film during post production. Despite being a major box office success, there was a lot of complains from viewers that the Blair Witch Project ‘had a terrible pace and didn’t have any really scary scenes’. The studio behind Book of Shadows certainly didn’t help it either and ironically may be the biggest villain in this story. Unfortunately fans were not keen on the idea of establish the first film as fiction and appalled the film. More importantly, it tried to create a new concept and expand the franchise instead of doing the first film all over again. In my opinion it’s a very misunderstood film that tried to base its story in the hype surrounding the original film and its fans and create a psychological and ambiguous horror film in the same molds of the first one.
Given the fact that the internet is talking again about the Blair Witch films thanks to Adam Wingard’s new entry on the franchise, I’ve decided to take a shot on my own Blair Witch Project and recut the 2000 sequel Book of Shadows, which I’ve been a fan of since its original release.īook of Shadows is considered one of the worst horror sequels ever made.
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