But two months before the release, the new marketing director for Artisan comes in and says, ‘What’s this edgy adult satire? We need a teen slasher movie! We need blood…lots of blood!’ And so they fucking put my movie into a blender and what was once an over-the -top satire became just a poorly acted hackneyed excuse for a film.Ī scene from Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 I’m actually very proud of the film that I made: my edgy adult satire.

I wrote that movie with Dick Beebe, I shot it, and I delivered it. I would do this edgy adult satire with a twist at the end.’ They said, ‘Hey, great idea! Why don’t you do that?’ I would explore these very ideas that we’ve been talking about – that it’s not good to dupe people into buying tickets. So they said, ‘Well, those are interesting thoughts that you’ve got there…what would you do?’ So I said, ‘Look, if I were to make the sequel to The Blair Witch Project, I would make fun of the whole idea of doing a sequel. “Also, to someone like myself who makes beautifully crafted documentaries, the idea that shaking the camera around equals reality is bizarre. I’m the wrong guy to do it from that perspective. I thought, ‘Well, it’s brilliant, yeah, but it’s also duplicitous: it’s one more step in this process of blurring the line between fiction and reality. In fact, I’m stunned that there was not one critical argument in all the glowing love fest with how the movie was released…all those articles were about how brilliant the marketing was. That is offensive to a real documentarian. “I was offended by The Blair Witch Project, not as a creative thing…I thought that it was original, but I was offended by the fact that it was sold to the public as a real documentary. They liked my thinking, so they called me in to do Blair Witch 2. I was actually at Artisan pitching them another movie.

I thought that I was the last person on earth who would do Blair With 2. That was a fucking disaster, but it started out as an interesting film in my mind. My film, Some Kind Of Monster, all started because of the disaster of Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. For about five minutes, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich was actually going to be the music supervisor on Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, because he was experimenting with his new record label. “I made this disaster of a movie called Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2…it’s the blight and stain on my record, but someone had to do it.

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