Jeff sets up a large amount of video equipment to record the night. This is where the house of the first film’s final events once stood.
On the first night of the tour, the group sets up camp near the foundation of the house of child killer Rustin Parr. The final member of the party is goth chick Kim (Kim Director). His customers for this journey include Stephen (Stephen Barker Turner) and Tristen (Tristen Skylar), graduate students and lovers writing a book called “The Blair Witch: Hysteria or History?” Also along for the ride is Erica (Erica Leerhsen), a practicing witch, or wiccan, out to clear the name of the supposed Blair Witch, Elly Kedward. Through his website, he sells large numbers of T-shirts and other memorabilia, and now he has launched his first ever tour/camping trip of the physical sites used in the movie. In this opening footage we meet Jeff (Jeffrey Donovan), a local boy with a mysterious past out to capitalize on the popularity of the film. It acknowledges the original as a work of fiction (a la “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare”) as evening news shows report about the fans overrunning the real-life small town of Burkittsville, Maryland. “Book of Shadows” begins with not so much a recap of the events of the original, but an overview of the hysteria caused by a film called “The Blair Witch Project”. Berlinger soon chucked any of the less inspired ideas that had been tossed around for the new film in favor of something more ambitious. I’m sure Artisan looked at those movies and saw the same documentary feel with a bunch of people running around the woods. I’m sure the producers felt inspired by the choice of Joe Berlinger, who made the non-fiction films “Brother’s Keeper”, “Paradise Lost”, and “Paradise Lost 2”. Bad buzz had bounced around the internet about this flick for a couple of weeks. 14 months after “The Blair Witch Project”, distributor Artisan has pumped out a sequel largely completed without the involvement of any of the original participants.
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