More woods that go on endlessly repeating themselves no matter which direction you travel in. JUMP SCARES! More creepy little stick figure totems that mysteriously appear outside of your tent the morning after a sleepless night. JUMP SCARES! Shaky handheld footage of a -JUMP SCARE!- dilapidated house, as a -JUMP SCARE!- long-limbed spectre (definitely not the Blair Witch) gives chase... As we reach the end of the Blair Witch franchise (so far, as recently as 2022 there was talk of another instalment and my fingers are crossed that we get one soon) let's look at the most recent film in the series, 2016's Blair Witch . Blair Witch is a direct sequel to 1999's The Blair Witch Project, telling the story of James Donahue, whose sister Heather went missing during the events of the original film. James, his three friends and two local guides travel into the Black Hills Forest near Burkittsville, Maryland after a mysterious video is uploaded to YouTube showing a brief glimpse
Is the legend of the Blair Witch real or was it the fictional construct of a low budget horror movie? If enough people believe that something is true, could their collective delusion and group hysteria actually manifest a harmful entity into existence? Join me as we continue our journey through the Blair Witch franchise and focus on the much maligned second film in this series, an extremely polarising sequel but one that I believe is still worth a look, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 . Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 treats the original as a fictional film that has popularised the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland, causing fans and tourists to descend on the community much to the annoyance of locals. It tells the story of a group of five people who venture out into the woods to visit the "real" locations that were mentioned in the film, only to suffer psychological and physical torments. But is it a supernatural presence torturing them or group hysteria brought on by an