An average movie

Even though this sequel didn’t get much love when it was released, since I always had a weak spot for ‘The Blair Witch Project’, I thought I might as well check it out. In fact, after all these years, I still haven’t watch ‘Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2’ but I should definitely check it out at some point, just to see how terrible it actually is. Anyway, to be honest, I don’t think this new sequel was bad at all after all. Indeed, it turned out to be a rather faithful follow-up to the classic horror feature, even though it has been a while since I have seen such nauseating found-footage scenes. Maybe they could have deviated from the original and gave a couple of scenes at the beginning to develop more the characters though. Instead, they developed more the last act which really did deviate from ‘The Blair Witch Project’. Of course, they still ended up with a house which was not supposed to be there, in fact, it was exactly the same house. However, they did add much more action scenes but I don’t think it was such a great idea. Indeed, that’s probably the only thing that they didn’t understand. Basically, the original movie did work because it focused on the psychological trauma experienced by the characters and they actually showed almost nothing which was just so creepy. By showing so much more basic horror stuff, this movie was therefore much less effective. And, yet, I have to admit it, it was actually pretty creepy and I needed a couple of minutes to shake this feeling away when it was finished which shows that, in spite of its obvious flaws, the damned thing actually did work. Anyway, to conclude, sure, this movie was probably another useless sequel (like 99% of all sequels) but I thought it was actually mildly entertaining and I guess it might be actually worth a look but only if you really like the genre.