![]() With the revelation, Lane and Talia depart, while on their way out of the jungle, James and the gang circle back to the same camp. However, thanks to Peter’s ingenuity, we find that Lane made the crosses. The following morning, they see the Twanas, or makeshift wooden crosses, which seem ominous enough. The first day goes relatively smooth despite Peter’s hesitation and Asley’s mysterious wound from something in the river. As locals, Talia and Lane have a repository of knowledge to share about the Blair Witch legend. They can show James and the party the house’s location, but they want to come along for the journey. In Burkittsville, they meet the locals Talia and Lane, who found the video and posted it on the internet. Ashley and Peter are pretty obviously a couple. Peter is James’ ever-skeptic childhood friend. Along with James is Lisa, who has to make a documentary for her dissertation on the way, Peter, and Ashley. In the hope of finding his sister, James undertakes a sprawling journey to Maryland. She was last sighted in the Black Hills forest near Burkittsville, where she was busy researching the myth about Blair Witch. In 2014, a video of Heather Donahue surfaces on YouTube twenty years after her disappearance. If you are looking for closure, let us get to the bottom of the mystery. Also, a rain-soaked house in the eternally doomed woods is not a pleasing sight thus, you may have closed your eyes. You must wonder what goes down in the final moments since the handheld camerawork does not give away much. Don’t be shy and speak up.Therefore, the movie remains a direct sequel of the first ground-breaking venture, while there have been three more films in the middle. 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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