Would have been better, but worth watching if you've seen the first In the other half of the 1990’s Scream started a horror revival. Horror movies became financially successful again. However movies of that era were more or less rip offs of Scream: teenage horrors like I Know What You Did Last Summer. The Blair Witch Project with its previous media hype, was something completely different. And of course it was a fake documentary without special effects, kind of a fresh breeze. I have seen it in a theatre in 2000. Some of you who might have seen it only on a TV screen believe me: it was scarier on the big screen, in the dark room. Anyway, let’s talk about its sequel which was mocked by horror fans all over the world. If anyone hates sequels, I am that guy, but I know that film industry doesn’t have any hindrance, especially when it comes to sequels. So I faced the fact that a sequel exists and dared to see Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Project 2 (Note that there isn’t a Book of Shadows in the story!!! :-)). I think that this movie has the same problem that many movies (especially horrors) have nowadays: the writers and the directors didn’t have a sense for rhythm. SPOILER! I just watched and watched and I were 50 minutes into the movie and nothing really happened. Then came the interesting part after they watched the tapes and strange things started to happen. What is happening in the first part? We see a bunch of young tourists going to see the haunted house known from the first movie. They arrive, meet another group who go elsewhere, then they start to get bored and then have a party drinking alcohol and smoking pot. During these they are talking a LOT. We learn that BWP was only a movie for them just like for us, real viewers, and I think it’s a great twist and a good starting point for a sequel. END OF SPOILER. When I’m into a horror flick and nothing scary, even interesting happens in the first part of the movie I press STOP on the player. But I was patient, and my patience was rewarded. I don’t wanna spoil the ending of the movie. I have to tell you that I really liked it and if there is a way to make a sequel to the one and only Blair Witch Project, this is it. They didn’t explain the mysteries of the first part, they remain mysteries, on the top of that, we have another mystery now. They didn’t put a lot of special effects into it, at the same time it’s not a fake documentary made with a handycam. It is a psychological horror, just like the first part. As I said before, the only problem is the rhythm: if I recut the movie, the first 50 minutes would be densed into 25 minutes, and the last 30 minutes would be stretched to 40, even 50 minutes with an increasing suspense. And we would have 10-15 minutes for something that is not in the original script: meeting with some unfriendly Burkittsville folks or something like that :-) Anyway: if you really liked the first part, try this too.