“The following is a fictionalized reenactment of events that occurred after the release of The Blair Witch Project ,” reads the intro to Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 . “It is based on public records, local Maryland TV broadcasts, and hundreds of hours of taped interviews. To protect the privacy of certain individuals, some names have been changed.”

The film then jumps right into real news and talk-show clips (MTV’s Kurt Loder, Jay Leno, Roger Ebert) discussing The Blair Witch Project around the time of its sensational summer 1999 release. Thanks to the film’s clever marketing, some audience members believed its documentary-style footage was real , following a trio of filmmakers who get lost in the woods outside Burkittsville, Maryland, while investigating a witchy local legen

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