![]() Heather and Mike attempt futile to discover him before continuing. They estimate that his shouts are a manufacture by the witch to coax them out of their tent.After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his sister’s experiences in the demonic woods of the Blair Witch, James and a group of friends head to the forest in search of his lost sibling That night, they hear Josh’s anguished shouts yet can’t find him. In that year, a film called The Blair Witch Project was released to audiences after one of the most brilliantly conceived & executed hype campaigns ever devised basically had the entire world waiting to watch it. Its final worldwide gross ended up at nearly $250,000,000 dollars, which isn’t too shabby a return on a budget rumored to be no more than $60,000. Thanks to the incredible success of the first film, a sequel (of sorts) was released. Entitled “ Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2“, it took a different approach to the source material, and suffered mightily for it. Its final worldwide gross ended up at just under $48,000,000, not too terrific when it cost $15,000,000 to produce – but still a relative success. Writer Simon Barrett & Director Adam Wingard decide that it’s time for a proper sequel to the original film. ![]() After originally being announced as “ The Woods“, its true title was revealed to be “ Blair Witch” a few weeks before its debut. ![]() And once the world found out that it was really a sequel, certain unnamed outlets immediately began calling it things like “ A New Beginning For Horror Films“, “ One Of The Scariest Movies Ever Made” and “ A Truly Terrifying Cinematic Experience“. Pardon me if I refuse to suck on the teat of the hype machine. But this is a load of bunk.īut I’m getting ahead of myself, I’ve a tendency to do that. ![]() Allow me to recount the plot (such as it is) to you. James ( James Allen McCune) has been trying to find out what really happened to his sister, Heather, who went off into a part of Burkittsville, MD some years ago with a few of her friends to record a documentary called The Blair Witch Project some 17 years ago. ![]() As you well know, none of them were ever seen again, but James has come across a snippet of a online video that seems to feature his long missing sister in it for a second. So he gets a few of his friends together to find the house that video was filmed at, and hopefully find his sister.
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