The box-office success of The Blair Witch Project made a sequel inevitable. However, despite the ongoing profitability of horror franchises, most sequels to classic genre films suck. Hoping to avoid falling into this trap, the bigwigs at Artisan Entertainment made an inspired choice for the sequel’s director: Joe Berlinger, an acclaimed documentarian who co-directed with Bruce Sinofsky the excellent Brother’s Keeper (1992) and the Paradise Lost films (1996 and 2000). Surely he would turn an admittedly unnecessary and money-grubbing sequel in an interesting direction, right?
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