Many people suspect Parr's crime was really the work of the Blair Witch. The tourists are determined to stay awake, so they can witness the weird stuff that's supposed to happen around these parts. But they suffer a collective memory blackout, unable to account for five hours of the evening. Jeff leads them to his video-editing crib, an abandoned 19th century warehouse, where they can scrutinize the video and piece together what just happened to them. Well, they get the freaky things they were looking for.
Bizarre symbols appear on their skin.
Mysterious dogs bark outside the door, only to disappear. Tristen suffers disturbing dreams. And so on. Perhaps Berlinger's savvy, meta-Blair approach was inevitable, given the enormous publicity around the original movie. But the problems are many.