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Even formula-slasher-pic fans are likely to find this hectic, unfocused effort a letdown.
Full reviewYoung adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland (the ones from the first Blair Witch Project), so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.
Even formula-slasher-pic fans are likely to find this hectic, unfocused effort a letdown.
Full reviewIt's better made than the original, and its writing contains a subtlety and wit the original film lacked.
Full reviewFor all its clever notions, Book of Shadows often seems more like a montage of pasted-together images than a coherent horror story.
Full reviewMissing from the mix are any characters with whom you'd want to spend one minute around a campfire.
Full reviewThe only thing vaguely demonic here is the ease with which a movie as scary and original as The Blair Witch Project can be downloaded into oblivion and compressed into this week's product.
Full reviewThe real problem here may be that Blair Witch 2 was made... only... because Blair Witch made a lot of money.
Full reviewThe whole is less than the sum of its parts; it never actually coalesces into a movie.
Full reviewBook of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is available to stream in New Zealand now on TVNZ+.
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