Yeah, if it wasn't the witch, then who or what was it?
The idea of having a greater evil that lurks in the forest is total nonsense. Not nonsense because it's a horrible concept (Twin Peaks did a good line in woods with bad juju) but nonsense because it gives writers of any subsequent sequels license to concoct all kinds of tangents and all-singing-all-dancing spooks, when the original legend had already been well-defined. Not only that, but if you want to keep it all found-footage-style then you have keep on sending these parties into the woods. It would defy logic if they all went missing and yet people, inexplicably, just keep going in despite the obvious danger. Makes the thing into quite a joke.
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IMDbGigalo
8 years ago
Seems obvious the plot of this flick was something else and they threw in "Blair Witch" at the last minute.
I'm sticking with BoS as Blair Witch 2, personally, and disavowing this.
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lunchboxattacks
8 years ago
Clearly, BoS is Blair Witch 2. As I recall, it even says it in the opening credits.
Personally, I thought that was a clever film. It would have been much easier to just go in and make a no-budget thing and collect big on the box office, but they instead decided to do something that kind of commented on the pop culture phenomenon of the first one. Underrated.
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IMDbGigalo
8 years ago
Of course that was the name, but I was under the impression we were supposed to forget that, since this one contradicts it a lot.
I think it's underrated, too. Sure, some things could have been better, but it was a decent flick.
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lunchboxattacks
8 years ago
BW2 isn't set in the same universe as the first film. It's set in a universe where the Blair Witch thing was supposed to be fiction but it keeps with the idea that all the locations from the first film are located in and around Burkittsville, not Seneca Creek State Park. It's a fairly meta film at times, and a good sequel. TBWP was singular and could only be done once.
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sockableclaw
8 years ago
BW2 isn't set in the same universe as the first film. It's set in a universe where the Blair Witch thing was supposed to be fiction but it keeps with the idea that all the locations from the first film are located in and around Burkittsville, not Seneca Creek State Park. It's a fairly meta film at times, and a good sequel. TBWP was singular and could only be done once.
Actually you are incorrect. BW 2 is set in a universe where BWP was just a movie, and all the actors all in it were still alive, but the legend of the Blair Witch was still real (and not fiction). Why do you think the group in BW 2 went on a Blair Witch hunt? It's because they wanted to see the Blair Witch themselves.
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zachengel-93444
8 years ago
Actually, part of the legend explains how the natives that lived in Blair before the settlers arrived all avoided the Black Hills Forest because they felt something "evil" in it. I don't remember if it was in the original movie or one of the various "documentaries" the creators made, but it was definitely talked about at some point.
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Colonel-T
8 years ago
There is a reference to that in the tie-in book "The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier". I never played the computer games, but apparently some of them are based on the idea of an ancient demonic presence which has occupied the Black Hills for millenia.
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