sequel = overkill

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2000)

PLEASE, DON'T DO A SEQUEL!!!!
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the first Blair Witch Project even in the midst of the endless hype and the "scariest movie ever" crap. I'd still easily pick it as one of the top three most creative movies of 1999 (along with Magnolia and Run Lola Run). I'm glad that it at least scared the pants off the bloated Hollywood producer-types with their trillion-dollar budgets, BUT...
A sequel here would do nothing but prove that young directors can't ever make it big on low-budget masterpieces without running it into the ground first with a souped-up Act Two. Perhaps I'll eat my words if Blair Witch II is filmed for under 50K, and shows those two hillbilly river fishermen getting eaten alive by the ghost of Heather Donahue. I doubt it...