Yes, That’s the Guy From Burn Notice Jeff Donovan before Burn Notice. Instead, it’s just a traditional steady-cam horror movie, which is fine by me. Book of Shadows solved that problem: Almost no shaky cam here. I zombie-walked out of that theater a sickly shade of green. But I’ve never been so motion sick as I was when I saw the first movie in the theater. It’s fun to feel like you’re immersed in the action. Listen, I love found footage movies as much as the next person. They wake up with their campsite destroyed and a nearby group of tourists murdered in witchy ways.
And that’s where we go from normal to horrifying. He’s leading a ragtag group of fans and researchers into the woods so they can sleep right where Heather, Mike, and Josh slept as they made their movie. Book of Shadows takes place in a world where The Blair Witch Project exists as a movie, and that’s cool as hell.Įnter Jeff, the quirky and slightly unstable fan that starts a tour of the filming locations for The Blair Witch Project. It starts with a faux documentary sequence explaining that the release of the first movie was so popular that now Burkittsville, Maryland is overrun with rabid fans hell-bent on getting their grubby mitts on anything witch-related.
Why not subvert all expectations and play into the fact that the original Blair Witch was just a movie? And that’s what it is in Book of Shadows. Everyone fell for it the first time, so they won’t fall for it again.
They couldn’t just go ahead and make another found footage movie. The Movie Within a Movie They’ve all seen the movie.
But here’s the thing: It’s actually a stellar sequel if you just lower your quality bar a smidge. So why did everyone forget about the sequel? Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 came out just a year later in 2000, yet no one ever talks about it. Even after everyone found out that it was all a hoax and just a movie, that didn’t stop the success of this horror classic. The found footage and subsequent advertising campaign made people think that the disappearance of Heather, Mike, and Josh was real. The Blair Witch Project was such a sensation, people are still talking about it over two decades later.
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