Artisan Entertainment's Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 delves deeper into the legend of the infamous Blair Witch and the unspeakable evil wrought in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 takes place in present-day Burkittsville, after the events chronicled in The Blair Witch Project. Four young people have signed up for a tour of the Black Hills, the latest Blair Witch-inspired moneymaker dreamed up by enterprising local Jeff Donovan. They set up camp near the foundation of the house that belonged to Rustin Parr, the old hermit who was hanged for the murders of seven children, a crime that bore the mark of the Blair Witch. In the morning, the campers awake with no memory of having gone to sleep and five hours stolen from their lives. They return to Jeff's residence Burkittsville, an abandoned warehouse, to try and piece together what happened. But the strange occurrences haven't ended with that night, as legend and reality become frighteningly entwined. Bizarre symbols appear on their bodies, children's plaintive crying is heard, phantasmagoric visions confound their eyes, and fleeting apparitions suggest the villainy of the distant past. No longer sure what is real and what is imagined, the group starts to realize that when they left the woods, they didn't leave alone ...
As an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work often explores the ambiguity of the human condition, director Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and its sequel, Revelations: Paradise Lost 2) brings a unique understanding of the blurry line between truth and fiction that is a key element of the Blair Witch series.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is the second film of Artisan Entertainment's projected Blair Witch trilogy. The final film will be a prequel that completes the legend of the Blair Witch. The first film in the series, The Blair Witch Project, is the highest grossing independent film in history.
