There's a campfire and a lot of drinking and, when the group wakes up in the morning, they're greeted by shredded copies of Stephen's manuscript and smashed cameras. Their videotapes have been hidden under rocks. Worse, no one can remember what happened over night. There are gaps of a couple of hours on the videotapes. Unfortunately, the more the filmmakers try to explain the missing time frame, the sillier Blair Witch 2 begins to look.
Ghosts begin fading in and out.
A sturdy tree turns into a sapling. At one point a spoiled videotape gets cleaned up enough so we can see a character hiding this very same tape under a rock. Worse, the plot wobbles as Berlinger veers back and forth between the here and now and flashbacks of past events plus flashbacks of things that may not have happened at all. The cast's only standout is Lanny Flaherty as a yahoo county sheriff who's trying to get to the bottom of the strange doings and discovers a murder. He's a bright light in a film that's otherwise very dim.