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Marco Castellini
•Three young people head to the forests of the Black Hills of Burkittsville, Maryland, driven by the buzz surrounding the film "The Blair Witch Project". Two of them, Stephen and Tristen, need to conduct research for a book; with them is Kim, an attractive young woman with psychic abilities, and Erika, a so-called "Wiccan", a sort of modern witch who does not share the portrait that the film has drawn of the category. To accompany them is Jeff, a boy whose past has been marked by psychic imbalances. The little group camps, equipped with cameras, near the dilapidated house where the videotapes documenting the famous misadventures of the protagonists of the previous film were found. Follows a night of drinking in the sinister place. In the morning, they wake up not even remembering having slept and with all their equipment destroyed. Fear grips them also due to strange and disturbing hallucinations they are victims of. The situation further complicates when all are accused, by the sheriff of Burkittsville, of the murder of five other campers who came to the Black Hills with the same curiosity. The methods of the gruesome murders mimic the horrible deeds of the Blair witch... Sequel to the "cinematic phenomenon" of recent years, the film, whose direction is entrusted to the established documentarian Joe Berlinger, is not a true sequel but rather a film about the "Blair Witch" phenomenon. Starting from a short documentary on the impact that "The Blair Witch Project" has had on the town of Burkittsville, the film continues the game by mixing reality and fiction. But while the first episode, through its filming techniques, kept the viewer in a balance between observation and identification, drawing them into a dimension where fear exploded in its most atavistic form, this sequel sends us back to the outside and becomes an ordinary horror product, precisely the genre that the extreme choices of "The Blair Witch Project" had identified as saturated. However, although much less original than the first (and it could not be otherwise), the film is a successful experiment and certainly superior to the standard average of sequels. Moreover, it has the undeniable merit of being able to please both fans of "The Blair Witch Project", because it anyway recalls its story and atmospheres, and those who hated it, because it has a better defined style and structure, from a "classic" horror film. Curiosity: the soundtrack, which enriches and completes the atmospheres of mystery and threat, is largely signed by Marilyn Manson, who asked for the help of other "cursed" rock stars like him, such as Godhead, Rob Zombie, and others.
