I have to add another vote for Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Two.

The first film did nothing for me at all, but two friends who saw the second one raved and raved about it until I felt forced to sit down and watch the DVD with them. Few films have so successfully screwed with perceived reality as Book of Shadows did. It is so good that it almost defies analysis.

It seems the natural successor to the mind storms of Dialobique and the Kubrick version of The Shining. I know a lot of people hate it, but it was a genuine life-alterer for me.

On a side note it was sad to read that the makers of the original Blair Witch fell quickly on hard times. I would have thought that such a big hit would have earned them bog studio deals, but it seems that the perception was that the hype made that film rather than any of its inherent qualities. I hope they do better with Altered.

No wonder BOS was better than BWP..nobody from that debacle was involved

So? Kubrick once stated he hated SPARTACUS but many love that as well. Uwe Boll LOVES his crap, and many hate it..

What happened to this movie? I heard it went straight to dvd. Has anyone seen it?

Pretty decent flick. I was surprised. A very solid 7/10

Care to spoiler it for me?

You have to appreciate "Blair Witch Project" for what it was made as, rather than the pop culture monster it became. The documentary style as used in a horror flick was novel and unusual, the film was made for pocket change and dropped onto a wholly unexpecting festival circuit, where the first two thirds of the movie blended in with other documentary offerings and the finale really came off as explosive.

By the time you saw it, it was in wide release, backed by studio muscle and a web page that cost several dozen times the film's original budget.

As an exercise in zero budget filmmaking targetted at a niche or festival market, it was canny and really startling. As a major studio release horror flick, it obviously lacked the polish, for $20,000 that you would have on movies that cost more than a thousand times as much.

Add me to the list of people that hated the Blair Witch Project but loved Book of Shadows.

Add another to that list, I was really looking forward to the 3rd in the Blair Witch series after watching the second one