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The Blair Witch Project is a unique entity to itself. Loved by horror fans, despised by almost everyone else. I had the pleasure of being thrown right into the middle of the whole fiasco. I saw it when it was first released at a small arthouse theater in Seattle. It was quite the experience. Then, when the movie blew up, the theater I was working at had it on 6 or 7 screens. It was sold out for almost a week straight, and I've never seen the general public have such animosity towards a movie. Normal movie goers and even casual horror fans despised it. Many were calling it the absolute worst film ever made.
As far as Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows goes, I seem to be in the minority when I say I absolutely loved the film. The backlash it gets is almost akin to Halloween III. I think if the filmakers would have simply called it Book of Shadows, it would have went over a lot better.
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