Episode 4 - Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Join us in an abandoned factory in the heart of Burkitt County, Maryland where we explore five people fixated on The Blair Witch Project. Witness as the journey turns into madness and chaos revealing a shocking truth between truth and fiction. Individual perception blurs the lines of human or supernatural elements. Fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride. 

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Hey, what's up, everybody? What's going on? What have you been up to lately? Have you seen anything scary recently? Um, I haven't done much. I got caught up on Alien Earth after falling behind, and damn, that show is great. Um, I think we only have an episode or two left, and I'm already hoping for season two. Aside from that, um, I think that's about it. Before we get started, I've got a few horror updates for you. Um, one of which being A-24 is reportedly looking to land the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. Apparently, the rates have been up for auction with several interested parties around Hollywood, but it's also reported that A-24 is close to winning the film and television rates, so that's something to look out for. In other news, the insidious franchise is gearing up for the next installment. Reportedly, uh, Lynn Shea will be returning alongside Amelia Eve. Um, you might recognize her from The Haunting of Blah Manor. Jacob Chase will direct, and he also wrote the screenplay with David Leslie Johnson uh McGoldrick. The next chapter is aiming for release date of August 21st, 2026. Last but not least, the Emineyville Horror Franchise will be getting a reimagining with director David Sandberg. Um, instead of a direct remake, he's chosen to do it as a reimagining. There's uh not many details at the moment that's available. Um, if you've forgotten who David Sandberg is, he did Lights Out, Annabelle Creation, and most recently he did Until Dawn. Now that all of that is out the way, welcome back to Chills Thrills and a podcast, our horror community podcast. We're back to review, discuss, and analyze the next entry in the Blair Witch franchise, Book of Shadows, Blair Witch 2, written and directed by Joe Berlinger alongside uh with Dick BB. Before we get started, this is your spoiler warning. So if you haven't seen it, I suggest you go check it out first and meet us back here for the review and the discussion. With that being said, we have a movie to break down, so let's get into it. Book of Shadows starts off with the title card that reads, The following is a fictionalized reenactment of events that occurred after the release of the Blair Witch Project. It is based on public records, local Maryland TV broadcasts, and hundreds of hours of taped interviews. To protect the privacy of certain individuals, some names have been changed. We then see the title card that says Summer 1999. We hear the voice of Heather Donahue screaming for Josh in the Blair Witch Project, following by a broadcast from MTV News anchor Kurt Loader, who says the film is the Blair Witch Project. We then cut to Jay Leno saying the critics have called it one of the scariest films of all time, cutting into Conan O'Brien saying that he was terrified and it scared him to death, followed by cutting to Roger Ebert, who begins telling the story of the Blair Witch Project. We already know the story, so there's no need to go into that aspect. Various other anchors begin expressing their thoughts on the Blair Witch Project, how uh its effects and its success. The coverage continues as it's said that not only are fans flocking to the theaters, but also flooding the town of Burkitsville. Speaking with a Burkitsville resident, he describes that people have started coming to Birkitsville as if it were Charles Manson's The Spawn Ranch or Ed Gaines The Serial Killer's House to visit a haunting place, and Birkitsville isn't a haunted place. It's a place that's that a fictional movie was set in. In the next scene, we see one of our main characters, Jeff, played by Jeffrey Donovan, who goes on to say he wasn't able to see the movie when it first came out because after a brief hesitation, he uh tells us that he was in the hospital. But as soon as they let him out, he was in the movie theater 17 times in a row to view the movie. Joe and Lauren, Burkettesville residents, say the website really sold them. The website had all of these police photos and official police evidence, all of the information that you, you know, you really sort of uh to believe in it. Lydia, another resident, goes on to say that her stick men sold really well on the internet, so they started selling them from the front yard. Then somebody came by to buy those and they wanted rocks. So she went into her backyard and got rocks out of her rock garden, but she didn't really want to get rid of them until the guy offered her more money, so she ended up selling them. Deb, a Burkinsville resident, expresses that everybody that visits the town every day with cameras, consistently recording, she's used to being recorded to the point anytime she goes out, she makes sure she's got her makeup on and she's dressed nicely. However, when speaking with a woman named Andrea, she wishes that they used a fictitious town and thought ahead toward what type of repercussions could come from using the word documentary in their advertising and on their website. We cut to the next scene and we're introduced to Sheriff Cravens, played by Lanny Flarity, as he's yelling at visitors and tourists who are roaming the woods, telling them that there's no damn Blair Witch. Jeff continues his interview by saying there are a lot of naysayers that come and say nay, but then there's a lot of supporters who come to his town and tell them that they know that it's real, followed by a weird exchange of them repeating I know back and forth to each other repeatedly. We then see a title card that says one year earlier at the Burkett County Psychiatric Center, where they're where we're then shown strapped to a table is Jeff, while a doctor is standing over him, prepping a tube by putting some sort of lubricant on it and inserting it into Jeff's nose. A nurse then hands the doctor a substance in which he pours into the other end of Jeff's tube. Um it was said that um this this scene was supposed to reflect that it's it's a it was a forced feeding of Jeff while he was a patient. As more doctors stand over him, he's then ejected, and when we see Jeff again, he's just laying there, essentially foaming at the mouth, but unresponsive. Later, we see him being sprayed with the high-pressure water hose by an orderly while begging him to stop. Afterwards, we're shown Jeff in a straitjacket inside of a padded room bouncing and rolling around the walls and floors. Things seemingly calm, Jeff is sitting at a table before slamming his hand down, screaming enough. The next title card we see, we're shown Autumn 1999. We enter the opening credits with an aerial view of a lake surrounded by the forest, while disposable teams by Marilyn Manson plays. In the original cut of the film, the opening song was supposed to be Witchcraft by Frank Frank Sinatra, but it was replaced by the studio. Um I briefly listened to Witchcraft, and it's it's definitely a better fit for the intro. Um, I feel as though sometimes the opening music to the movie kind of sets of the sets the tone of the movie and what you can kind of expect. Um, one sample that it comes to mind, I'm thanking Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie for the uh the intro of Brat's Chucky, Brad of Chucky. Even throwing in that one, I'm also thanking um maybe even Cry Little Sister by Gerard McMahon for uh The Lost Boys. Um so like I would say pick the right song for the right movie because Disposable Teams, that ain't it, not at all. It it doesn't even fit the premise of the movie, but you know, what do I know? Anyway, as we continue our aerial shot, we get the title Book of Shadows, Blair Witch 2. And in our view, Through the Forest, it's it's intercut with shots of blood gore and violence to unknown persons. At the conclusion of the opening credits, we see Jeff sitting in the interrogation room as a detective and Sheriff Cravens enter the room. The date reads November 15th, 1999. The detective tells Jeff that they found blood in a van, and Jeff looks up, but then we cut to the next scene. Driving a van that reads Blair Witch Hunt, tours by appointment only, Blairwinchhunt.com. Inside the van, Jeff is driving, and with him is two more of our main characters, Steven, played by Stephen Barker Turner, and Tristan, played by Tristan Schuyler. The date reads Friday, November 12th, 1999. Tristan mentions to Jeff to kind of relax on how he's driving because she feels nauseous, like she's gonna toss. So Steven tells him that she's been feeling queasy lately. Jeff acknowledges it by saying he'll ease her comfort basically and slow down, then jokingly talks over his loudspeaker, introducing the couple, followed by asking them about his book, their book, whose ever book it is. So he asks Tristan the title of the book, to which she says the Blair Witch, the Blair Witch history or hysteria, and Steven tells Jeff it's hysteria or history. Jeff asks why they can't get on the same page about the book or about the witch anyway. Out of the back of the van, another main character pops up saying that they've always been misunderstood. This is Erica, played by Erica Learson. She continues by saying that they embrace nature, not evil. Jeff thanks her, then says she's not only a hottie, but a real witch, to which she responds, Blessed be. Approaching the Berkettesville Union Cemetery, Steven asks why they're slowing down, and Jeff tells him that it's where their tour mate acts to be picked up at and that she's a little weird. Shouting her name, Kim, played by Kim Director, answers while laying down on a I guess it's a tombstone. Um anyway, she's laying on the grave that reads Treacle, which belongs to Eileen Treacle. That is the girl from The Curse of the Blair Witch. Um she was the girl that was pulled under briefly while the hand uh reached out of the water and pulled her under. This right here is the second movie that ties into Curse of the Blair Witch. There's several Easter eggs scattered throughout the movie, and I will point them out as we go along. Anyway, Jeff introduces himself and Steven asks her what she's doing there, and Kim says she's trying to find the energy. So Tristan asks her inside the grave. So Kim just says she's trying to find the energy to stand up. She's exhausted, she's been on the road for two days. Jeff asks if she needs a hand, but all Kim says is that she wants amphetamines. Jeff responds, weed is what he has, and bear he's gonna go get. Kim wants both now. The crew heads out, and over the loudspeaker, Jeff proclaims for two luxurious days and night, my friends, you will walk the same path the witch herself once walked, sleep on the same soil where her victim's blood was spilled, possibly losing your own souls in the process, thanking them for coming along on the inaugural tour of the Blair Witch hunt. Stephen questions inaugural. Tristan follows up, meaning he's never done this. Jeff simply responds with never. Stephen reminds him that that's not what your his website said. Over 10,000 satisfied customers, so Jeff clarifies that that is his web store: stickman's t-shirts, official Blair Dirt, and tours, also adding that they're all virgins on this bus. Arriving in town, the group makes a stop at Black Hills Gas Station, and Steven points out that they had already passed the safe way two miles back, but Jeff tells him that that was in Burkett'sville and he doesn't shop there, let alone even piss there. Inside the gas station, we see a woman walking through the aisles, stalking up on Deviled Ham and an already cart full of Deviled Ham. Kim says to Jeff that this is a hell of a town and asks what century they're living in. So Jeff responds that the gene pool here is a little shallow. The woman with the cart of Deviled Ham stares Kim up and down while walking past. Kim reaches over and grabs a case of beer, stepping over a man who's laying on the ground working on the cooler. Handing the case over to Jeff, asking where the first stop is, Jeff tells her the ruins of Rust and Parr's house. Erica asks, the guy who heard the voices to kill, right? Jeff answers, yeah, seven little kids were, and Kim adds that she hears voices all the time. We're then shown a brief cut of a man being beat in the head with an unknown object. We cut back to the group unloading Jeff's van as Erica asks if they really need all of that shit for a walk in the woods. Jeff tells her the Blair Witch hunt provides all amenities while you risk certain death and dismemberment. Tristan asks, What's with all of the camera stuff? So Jeff responds to record all of the occult phenomena that may manifest itself in the course of the tour. Kim tells Jeff that he's really running Bullshit Central. Jeff questions if she didn't believe in the Blair Witch, then why did she come? And she tells him that she thought the movie was cool. Hiking into the woods, Kim asks Tristan how far along she is, and Tristan asks what she means. So Kim says to her, the baby, how many weeks? Tristan tells her she's six weeks pregnant, but Kim also says to Tristan that she doesn't want to keep it, and Tristan answers no, but Steven wants the baby. Tristan tells her yes and asks how she knows, and Kim doesn't know and asks, What is she gonna do? Tristan doesn't have the answer, so Kim just walks away. Finally arriving at the ruins of Rust and Parr's house, Jeff welcomes them to the site and tells them it's supposed to be where Heather's footage was found. Uh, two things really quick. Um, the foundation itself is made pure purely out of styrofoam. And then secondly, how'd they arrive at the Parr Foundation so quick? Heather, Mike, and Josh were in the woods for days before they even discovered the house. And yet this group got there like extremely quick. Anyway, Tristan acknowledges the carvings on part of the foundation that used to be the basement wall. So Erica tells her it's ancient witches alphabet, but Steven isn't buying it, saying it looks like recent graffiti. Tristan asks that it's so realistic and it's a little scary. Erica screws her by telling her some of these symbols are quite positive. Only those who don't understand witchcraft would be afraid of them. But remember, fear is the forerunner of failure. Looking around the foundation, Tristan asks about the story of the tree that's located inside of the foundation. Somehow Jeff is unaware about the big ass tree that's sitting in the middle of the foundation, asking where the fuck it came from, saying it was never there before. So, you mean to tell me you walk into the foundation and you didn't notice a big ass tree just sitting there? It just popped up when you got there. Steven tells him, nice try, and that maybe he should drop the tree bit from his next tour. Jeff disputes it, saying that he's not making it up, and then asking how a house that was built in 1826 was built around a tree. If that was the case, it would have been sticking straight up through the living room. Seems like a valid argument argument to me. So, you know, yeah. Erica tells him nobody is scared. Kim and Jeff just stare at each other before looking at the tree. As if they both know something isn't right, which it isn't, they just don't know what it is just yet. In a quick flash scene, we see an unknown woman running and screaming through the woods while somebody is being stabbed through their chest and another person is being bound with rope. We then cut to Erica, who's speaking an incantation or possibly a prayer, and she's crouched down, saying, Evil intent in the ground, may a release soon be found, and peace release the energy that be through my magic. Tristan walks up and asks if she's casting an evil spell, but Erica tells her she's reversing the evil. The first law of Wicca is harm none, because whatever you do is going to come back at you threefold. Karma is a bitch. Tristan asks her, What is she really doing? So Erica tells her she's communing with Ellie Ketword. Tristan asks the Blair Witch, followed by saying that she she thought she embraced nature, not evil. Erica tells her that she doesn't understand Ellie was a good witch, and she was an earth child like her, and that she's going to be her mentor. So Tristan asks her if she's spoken with her, but Erica tells her no, not yet, but she will. That's why she's there. Erica now laying in the grass, she asks to shed her mortal coil and commune with Ellie. Every time I hear the name Ellie, for some whatever f for whatever reason, I always think Ellie from The Last of Us. I mean, I don't know why, but I just do. Tristan asks if she's ever seen her picture, but Erica says that she doesn't think there are any. But Tristan tells her that her and Steven found one, so she shows her. Tristan explains that the picture they have might have been drawn before she was banished. Erica disputes it by saying she wasn't banished. She was dragged into the woods in the middle of the winter and tied to a tree and left to die. Tristan responds that she makes makes her sound helpless and she thought that witches could summon powerful energy. Erica tells her that they can summon summon powerful energy, but they still have to eat shit and die like everybody else. They just look good doing it. Back at the foundation, Tristan takes pictures of the markings on the wall, but stops to ask Jeff what he what does he need all the cameras for. So he tells her he's personally hoping for an Ellie Catworth sighting. He continues by telling her that he's got a big beta for quality master, he's got night vision, he's got infrared and a cute little mini DV, handhelds for everyone else. One of them has a frame, frame a second time lapse, so if anything comes in for a visit, they'll catch it. Erica ventures over to a plant asking permission to take the leaf off the plant, then saying thank you. Later on, the group is setting up camp for the night as Erica continues to repeat the same incantation as she was saying earlier. Stephen jokingly asks, How many Heather Donahues does it take to screw in the light bulb? Then loudly screams, just one, as everyone else laughs. I don't understand that joke. Um I don't get it. Am I missing something? Uh okay. Erica says she could never figure out in the Blair Witch project that two guys and a girl sleeping in the same tent night after night and no sex. It makes no sense. She acknowledges that they were scared out of their minds, but they had the greatest stress reliever right at their hands and yet nothing. Seductively looking at Jeff, Jeff tells her that he's a little stressed, but Erica kindly rejects him by telling him to try more weed. Stephen imitates a plane crash to point out Jeff's failed attempt. Stephen changes the topic by identifying the Bermuda Triangle is a place in the world that's been created by hysteria, by people's own psychology, by their own ideas of the place. Erica chimes in that they, meaning witches, were already a persecuted minority. This whole Blair Witch thing set them back 300 years. It's like they're back in the burning times. It just totally fucked up their image. Kim tells her that people fear what they don't understand, and she has to realize that. So Erica points out that people thinks because people think she drinks blood and that she sacrifices children and that she worships the devil because she's a Wiccan. Kim says that where she comes from, people think because she dresses in all black that she's some kind of sick serial killer. Erica agrees and adds that she doesn't even believe in the devil, that that is a Christian concept. She believes in nature. Kim tells her she hates nature. Steven says to him, myth is just myth, and it's not history, it's not even metaphor, and it's definitely not the truth. So Tristan tells him stories like this happen because they exist in a place of truth, because they're historical evidence, there's fact, and that's what he's gotta understand. So Jeff tells them that he wants to make a film, Wicca, a way of life. Steven points out to Tristan to take a look around, defining that everybody in the group, including them, are obsessed with the Blair Witch for their own reasons. Jeff continues his movie pitch by saying, Goth, a way of life, a documentary on Kim as he caresses her face on camera. I think uh I think this indicates he's got some sort of crush on her. I mean, it's obvious. But anyway, he goes on to say, all real, all video. Video never lasts, film does, though. This little statement is important to remember because it will tie into something later on in the movie, so keep that in the back of your mind. Stephen and Tristan continue their debate with Stephen saying everyone wants to see something. Hysteria and delusions breed in situations like this. But Tristan asks him why he's applying rational thought to mythology because if people believe something enough, isn't it real? Perception is reality. Stephen tells her that he gets what she's saying, but he just thinks it's bullshit. So Tristan responds that he's basically just dismissing it. Sitting there, the group hears an eerie shriek in the distance and that grabs their attention. Erica asking what the hell that was, so they all go to investigate when they're suddenly startled by another tour group saying, Burkinsville's funniest home videos. When the tour group popped up, they scared the shit out of Erica. The way she screamed was kind of funny. She even said that they scared the shit out of her. So the other tour group leader asked Erica if it answered every single one of her wet dreams. Jeff asks what the hell they're doing they're doing there, and the guy answers with that they've got a tour group called the Blair Witch Walk and asked what his excuse is. So Jeff responds with that he has a tour group called the Blair Witch Hunt. The tour group leader gets mad at his friend, telling him he's supposed to keep an eye off of stuff like that. How can he keep an eye off of stuff like that? It's not like it's an Airbnb or something where you can rent the space, but okay. The friend tells Jeff that they have jurisdiction, that they've got permits. So Jeff asks from who? Sheriff Cravins, and the group leader says, Yeah. But Jeff and Erica call bullshit, telling him telling him to show the permit, but he responds with that they're in the car. The tour group leader and Jeff kind of get into it. The leader tells them that one of them is going to be staying tonight, and it's going to be them or Jeff's group. So it's going to be them and then calls Jeff a little bitch. It was kind of funny the way he said it. I'm not going to lie. Jeff tells them that it's going to come back at them threefold. I have zero idea what that even means. Maybe I'm dumb, but I have zero idea. But anyway, Jeff tells the leader that his balls are going to fall off in three days. Steven steps in saying that he can settle it. Give them till dawn and they'll be out of there. They're tired, they're cold, and they're a little shook up from what they saw up at Coffin Rock. Jeff goes along telling them that it scared the shit out of them, and Kim begs them to stop talking about it because she's going to freak out and she just wants to go home. The tour group takes debate, asking the leader to take them to Coffin Rock and that they paid a lot of money to see something. As the group walks away, Jeff sneaks his business card to one of the tourists, and Stephen says they were never seen again. Their footage was found a year later, underexposed and useless. They all just get a laugh out of it, but Jeff tells him that he doesn't trust that the assholes aren't going to come back pissed because they took the foundation. So Stephen tells him there's nothing to worry about. Besides, they're going to be up all night and they'll keep their eyes open. Kim tells them they're not coming back. So Stephen questions why she thinks that, and Kim says she just does. Later on, we see Tristan asks Erica how her parents feel about having a witch for a daughter, and Erica tells her that her father is a minister in a one-church town back in Munesville, Illinois. Stephen asks Tristan how many beers has she had, and Tristan tells him she's fine, but Stephen tells her that she's drinking like a fish. Just that quick, I had even forgotten that Tristan was pregnant, but I'm pretty sure even one beer is extremely harmful to a pregnant woman, but okay. Tristan doesn't want to hear it, so it doesn't even really matter. After a few moments, the group starts partying, drinking, and smoking. We get another quick cutscene of somebody being stabbed repeatedly. We cut back to Kim's drunk ass having a staring contest with an owl. The next morning we see Tristan walking into the woods with a blanket before stepping waist deep into a stream, pushing the blanket under the water, and the water starts bubbling blood, followed by a baby's cry. But suddenly Tristan opens her eyes, revealing that it was just a dream. Kim wakes up asking what's going on, because it looks like it's snowing at first, but then you realize that it's actually shredded paper falling from the sky. Jeff wakes up clueless, but in his lap it's one of his cameras that's been snapped in half. Stephen picks up the papers, realizing that it is his work and all of his research. Tristan, just as upset, reminds him that it's their work, their research, every word. Jeff wonders where his cameras are. Stephen is pissed saying that this is all of their work and questioning how they're going to make the deadline, but Tristan reminds him that it's all backed up on the computer. But he tells her that the computer is just notes. Half of the papers are the original documents. That's your damn fault. Why would you bring original paperworks to like your camping? Why did you bring them anyway? Or like, I I don't know, but I don't think you should be like you shouldn't have brought that, so that's your damn fault. Jeff questions where everybody was because they were all supposed to be awake the whole time. Jeff, my boy, y'all literally were drinking and smoking all night, alcohol and beer. The fuck did you think was gonna happen? Kim begins to question where Erica is, but she pops up from from behind a tree. The fuck is she doing back behind the tree? Um, that she just pops up like irritated. Steven suggests that they must have fallen asleep, and Jeff responds that it's like they blacked out. That's usually what happens when you drink all night. Kim tells Jeff that the last thing she remembers is the other tour group. Jeff calls them little dickweeds. Tristan says that they came back from coughing rock and ripped them off. Kim picking up the pieces of Jeff cameras, adds that it looks like that they were bit off. Somehow Kim senses that the tapes are still there, so Jeff asks her where, asking if she sees them. She tells them in her mind that she sees them. Jeff's over it at this point, so Kim gets pissed and walks and points to a direction where they're located, but Tristan says that's where they found the Blair Witch tapes, right? So Stephen asks, why would they be there? Telling them, newsflash, that that was just a movie. Jeff, hesitant at first, walks over and starts moving debris, telling Kim that there's nothing there. So Kim tells him to reach inside, and when he does, he finds the tapes. Erica asks him how they got in there and questions if they're his. Jeff asks Kim how does she know, but she doesn't know. Tristan tells them that she doesn't feel good, and Erica repeatedly asks Jeff if they're his. Jeff, now annoyed, confirms that those are his, and Erica questions why are they still here, but the equipment is trash. The cameras are gone, but the tapes are still there. Stephen agrees and tells Jeff that they likely will want to fuck up his footage. Tristan tells Stephen that she wants to leave, but Jeff questions how it happened. This back and forth is interrupted when Tristan puts her hand over her mouth, revealing blood smearings over her face. Catching their attention, Stephen knows is the baby. Tristan looks down to notice her entire crotch area is stained with blood. We cut back to the interrogation room from earlier. The detective tells Jeff that they found blood in his van. So Jeff tells him Tristan had a miscarriage and reminds Cravens that he knew that. Jeff explains that she bled in the van on the way to the hospital. While he's explaining that, we we, the audience, see that Jeff is driving erratically trying to get Tristan to the hospital. Now arriving at the hospital, the doctor tells the nurses that Tristan is Tristan is hypothermic and she needs heating blankets and a lamp. Questioning how she got so cold, it seems like she's been sitting in ice water. So Stephen tells the doctor that they were just camping. Sheriff Cravens tells Jeff at the hospital the doctor thinks it's hypothermia and blames Jeff since he brought them out there, basically blaming him, telling him Tristan was his responsibility because he took her out into the woods. So Jeff asks if Cravens is charging him with something. Craven responds, telling him that he's been a pain in the town's ass since he was ten, and that Jeff needs to learn to stay out of trouble. It makes him defensive, anxious, and the last thing he needs to do is end up back in the Looney Band. Jeff stands up and stares Cravens down before walking away. In the next scene, we see Erica sitting in the hallway looking at tarot cards. I guess it's tarot cards, because I mean we don't never see a close-up of it, so I'm I'm not too sure. Jeff asks Kim how Tristan is doing, and Kim tells him that she lost the baby. Back in Tristan's room, the nurse explains to her that the doctor wants to keep her until her temperature stabilizes, especially since she lost a lot of blood more than usual, but it's for the best. Her body was telling her that something was wrong. Tristan agrees and tells her that something was wrong, and as the the nurse moves the curtains, Tristan sees a little ghost girl. I think it may be Aline Treaco, I'm not too sure. It hasn't been confirmed just yet. In another quick cutscene, we see the continued slaughter of the unknown group while screams can be heard in the distance. Stephen walks in and asks Tristan how she feels, but she tells him that she's not staying there. She wants to leave the hospital. In the next scene, we see the group driving on the road in the woods with Stephen telling them there's five hours unaccounted for, and Jeff tells him he wants to see the tapes because he wants to know what happened last night and that he's got some cool editing equipment at home, so he should be able to get some get some answers. Tristan asks if they're still in the Black Hill, so Jeff tells her they are, as they're pulling into what looks like a warehouse, but it turns out that it's Jeff's house, and it was an old factory during the Civil War. The city planned to tear it down, but he convinced them to sell it to him for a dollar. He apologizes for the bridge as it's the only way in or out, but it's safe, just don't touch the rails. We cut back to the interrogation room as Cravens tells Jeff that he's not a gambling man, but he'd bet his entire retirement pension that the blood in the van belongs to the Taurus. It is then that we realize that the quick cuts that we've been seeing of the unknown persons is actually the Taurus who's being brutally attacked. Jeff tells Cravens that he's been looking to pin something on him since he was a kid. We're back at Jeff's. He rushes everybody inside as dog barking uh alerts them, but as soon as Jeff shuts the door, the barking stops. They look around confused, so Jeff opens the door and the barking resumes. So he points up at a speaker telling them that it's Burkett County's cheapest alarm. Why did they feel the need to create a new county? There is no Burkett County, and as I said in the last episode, Burkett's Vill is located in Frederick County, Maryland. Secondly, behind Jeff, we the audience see license plates on the door that are Maryland license plates, but those styles of license plates have never existed in the state of Maryland. I've never seen them. I even tried to look them up and couldn't find anything on them. Erica points out a camera up in the corner, asking Jeff if it shoots water, but Jeff tells her no, it actually works. So wave because you're being recorded. Jeff's got the camera stationed around the house. Jeff walks them into his official Blair store where he's got Blair Dirt, Stickman, Rock Piles, etc. For some reason, this pisses Erica off, telling Jeff that he's a big of an asshole as the rest of them, and that this is what the Wiccan religion needs. More capitalism based on fear and lies, asking if it's fair to exploit her culture just to sell some stick figures and keychains. Erica, shut up. This store has no impact on you. It's literally just blair merchandise. That's it. Kim tells Jeff that she thinks that the place is cool. Steven wants to get Tristan to bed, so Jeff tells them to take his room and points out the additional rooms to the rest of the group. Erica appreciates the hospitality but tells Jeff to take her off his mailing list. Kim jokingly tells Jeff that they should have never let him out. He's a long way from sane. And as she walks past him, Jeff gives her the stare of death, and if looks could kill that, she would be dead. We're shown a quick flash of Jeff on a hospital bed, foaming at the mouth, laying there unresponsive. Laying in bed, Tristan tells Stephen she saw something at the hospital, and it was like a picture he had previously shown her in the Blair Witch Black Bible. Same clothes, same face, and it's like she had been drowned. Tristan confirms that it was indeed Eileen Treacle that she saw. Stephen kind of dismisses it, telling her that they'll discuss it after she gets some sleep, but Tristan wants to talk about it right then and there. Stephen's persistent, continues to tell her that she needs to get some sleep and that she's in shock. We then see Jeff, Erica, and Kim boredly watching footage, but Erica realizing that the big ass tree is replaced by a tiny ass twig. Jeff claps back that he told them that there was something up with the tree. Jeff asks for another tape to see if there's a different angle, but when Kim turns to grab another tape, Jeff notices a rash on her shoulder asking that what's up with that. Kim tells him that it's chafing from the black from the backpack. Stephen asks if it hurts, and Kim tells him not really. It just itches. Before Jeff changes the footage, Kim notices the glitch telling Jeff to rewind it. Stephen sees sees it as coffin rock, and Jeff asks him how he sees Coffin Rock or if he can see in other dimensions, but Steven tells him he doesn't know, but that's what it reminds him of. He goes on to explain the story of Coffin Rock, saying that the guys that were murdered there in 1886, after they were gutted, their heads were arranged in the shape of a pentagram, just like the image on the screen. Erica turns back to the monitor saying, The great American pastime, blame it on a witch. Then Stephen hears Tristan call his name, but when he gets back to the room, she's sound asleep. While covering her up, he hears strange noises, so he walks to the front door and he still hears the noises, so he opens the door, only to see the ghost of Eileen Treacle telling him that they brought it back with them. Stephen goes to run back inside, but a scream catches his attention. He heads back into the room. Tristan now awake, asks what the noise was, but Steven tells her that it was Jeff's stupid dog alarm. But Tristan was talking about the crying. She thought it was a horrible nightmare about children looking up her skirt as she twirled around so she heard them. Tristan asks what's wrong with her, but Stephen tells her nothing's wrong and that there's rational explanations behind it. Behind everything that's happening, Stephen tells Tristan he thinks they need to go home. He'll see if one of them will drive them to the airport, but Tristan tells him that she's not ready to go just yet. She needs to understand what happened, so Stephen tells her that she can understand what happens on the flight home. Stephen tries to hand Tristan pills to help her sleep, but Tristan refuses to take them, so he yells at her to take them. We then see Stephen in the interrogation room with the detective telling him he's not making a believer out of him. Stephen visibly upset tells the detective that it was an accident. He swears it was an accident. In the next scene, we see Jeff and Erica reviewing more footage when all of a sudden there's another there's another glitch. Jeff points out that the timestamp goes from 1.32 a.m. to 357 a.m. back to 132 a.m. Erica asks him how that happens, but Jeff doesn't know. But those were the hours they were asleep. Kim asks if he could make it bigger or slower down, so Jeff slows it down to reveal a naked woman twirling around a twig. So Erica asks why a naked woman is swinging around the tree. Jeff tries to redigitize the footage. So while waiting, Kim tells Jeff that she needs alcohol, but Jeff needs caffeine. And he looks at Erica assuming that she'll get it, so Erica tells him sarcastically that she lives to serve. We see Erica looking for coffee in the freezer, pointing out stale coffee, no beer, and old takeout chicken. Steven's sitting at the table, completely out of it. Erica asks him what's going on, so he tells her that they're leaving in the morning because Trishan's in bad shape. The whole thing really fucked her up. Erica asks him why he looks like he's the one having a breakdown, and suddenly Stephen slams his hands down on the table, startling Erica while saying that he's a little tense. But Erica apologizes and so does Stephen, also telling her he feels like his whole life has turned upside down the past few days, and she agrees. Erica seductively starts massaging his shoulders, telling him that he's been through a lot these past few days, but it's gonna be okay. Continuing to massage his shoulders, Erica tells him that he really is tense, and Steven replies that it feels good. Moving further down, it eventually leads to a makeout session. Erica helps Steven take off his shirt, revealing symbols on his stomach. So Erica asks them if they hurt, but Steven tells her no, they're just warm. What does that even mean? I've never heard of a wound or a rash or a scab or anything be referred to as warm. Um maybe it's infected, I guess. Anyway, Erica tells him not to worry because she has them too, immediately scratching his chest, causing deep wounds. Suddenly they're still sitting at opposite ends of the table, but they both just had the same same vision, like a shared delusion. Kim tells them that they found something on the footage. Now upstairs, Jeff managed to blow up the image of the naked woman twirling around the tree, revealing it to be Erica. Erica tells them if it's a joke, it ain't funny. So Kim tells her it's no joke, it's serious. So Erica accuses them of messing with the footage because it doesn't make sense. Jeff tells Erica that they were hoping she could explain, but Erica defends it saying she has no clue. So Stephen asks if she has any memory of doing it, but she doesn't. Jeff tells her if it's some sort of wicker thing that it's okay, she can tell them, but Kim just wants to understand. That's all. That's all they're trying to do is put together the pieces of what happened last night, and Jeff chimes in saying and find out who trashed his equipment. But Erica tells him that that wasn't her. She didn't do that. Stephen accuses her, telling her that that's her on the screen, but Erica snaps at all of them, telling them to leave her alone as she walks away. Jeff asks Stephen if he believes her, but Stephen doesn't know. Kim asks Jeff for the keys to his van because she needs to get out of there. She needs to go get a beer beer, and before leaving, she stops to check on Erica. When she gets to Erica's room, Erica is sitting on the floor with candles around her, chanting while rocking back and forth. So Kim is able to snap her out of it, and Erica tells her that they brought something back with them. Kim asks what she's talking about, but Erica Erica tells her that she can sense it. Like someone is choking her, squeezing the air out of her. Kim tries to calm her by telling her that they're just tired, but Erica shows her the markings on her stomach. Kim tells her that she's got the same thing, it's nothing, it's like poison oak. So a few of you have these rashes that happen to resemble witchcraft symbols, and that's your conclusion. Um that makes zero sense. Poison oak, poison ivy, none of those would resemble uh witchcraft symbols. Back to Erica, she tells Kim that they're growing, so Kim checks her shoulder only to see that hers have spread as well. Erica tells her that they're ancient pagan alphabet. They say it means you've been touched by a witch. While she's explaining that, we see more of the other Tours group being murdered and bound by rope. Erica tells Kim that it means you're next chosen to die. I don't I don't think that this is part of the Blair Witch lore because the other Tor group, the the Tor group's essentially reliving the original Coffin Rock murders. And Curse of the Blair Witch, the first search party was sent into the woods to locate the missing children, but they never returned. So another search party was sent to look for them, and when they found them, their bodies were laid out in the shape of a pentagram, and their bodies were bound by rope, and it was done while they were alive enough to struggle. This is another Easter egg that connects this to the Curse of the Blair Witch. In the next scene, Kim arrives at the gas station from earlier when she's greeted by a group of teens, one of which tells her that he's got something she can suck the blood out of, so she tells him to whip it out and then walks inside. Kim walks to the cooler and grabs a six-pack, and that same man that was laying there the day before is still there, but this time he tells her that he's finished now. That's also another Easter egg, but this one is from both the Curse of the Blair Witch and the Blair Witch project. The story is Rust and Parr went into town and said he was finished, but nobody knew what he meant until the police went to his house, they found the bodies of the seven kids that he had murdered. Back to the movie, the woman with the cart of the Devil Ham runs her cart into Kim, and Kim asks her what the problem is. So the lady tells her that she's with the witch people, but Kim tells her she's there just to buy grocery, and the lady calls her a witch and storms away. Kim heads over to the register so she can check out, and the cashier acts as if she's not there. So Kim tells her to do her job, or she'll tell the manager. But the cashier informs Kim that she is the manager. So Kim tells her that if she could tell the bitch at the front register to do her damn job, so Peggy, the cashier, tells her to get the hell out of there, but Kim tells her not until she's completed her purchase. Peggy tells her that they don't want her kind of people around there and starts filing her nails with the nail filer. Kim tells her she'll make it easy on her and starts bagging the beer. While Kim is doing that, Peggy activates the camera and grabs Kim's hand, repeating that she told her to get the hell out of there. When she does that, Kim grabs her by the throat, telling her that if she touches her again, she'll rip out her throat. Kim then throws the money in her face and tells her to keep the change. When Kim walks out of the store, the teens that were there are now gone, but back at the house we see Erica is still chanting while Tristan is staring out of the window at an aisle, and Jeff is sitting at his monitor watching Erica as she breaks down in tears. While Kim is driving, the teens reappear, throwing rocks at the van, busting the rear window, shouting, Stone the witch, stone the bitch. So Kim drives off, calling them rednecks, but when she looks up, there are seven kids standing in the middle of the road. Here's your next Easter egg from both movies. This is the seven kids that Rustin Park kidnapped and killed. Anyway, Kim swerves to avoid hitting them and drives into a pole, but when she looks around, the kids and the teens are all gone and there's nobody there. Back at the house, Kim sets the bag down, reaching. Inside, she sticks herself with Peggy's nail file, and when she pulls it off the bag, that we see that it's got blood on it. Jeff asks Kim to bring him some coffee. Kim sits down and tells him that she fucked up his front fender and that she had to swerve to avoid hitting these little kids, adding that they were dressed funny from another time, seven of them, and she knows it's crazy, but those were the kids that Rustin Parr killed. Jeff turns around and there's a quick vision of him in the electric chair being electrocuted, but all of a sudden it's back to normal. He asks for coffee and she tells him that it's next to him. We cut to the next morning, Stephen and Erica have a brief awkward good morning exchange, and Stephen asks her if she's ready and that he appreciates her driving them to the airport. Erica heads up to Jeff to get the keys, but before she walks away, we see the same vision of them making out, and they both obviously sense the same vision. Stephen tries waking Tristan up, but she tells him not yet. So Stephen tells her they're going home and yells for Erica, but there's no answer. He continues yelling for Erica, so Jeff tells him that she's not up there, but Stephen questions him about her whereabouts. Jeff looks downstairs at Stephen, telling him he just said she wasn't up there and to go check the van. But when he sees the van, he sees that it's destroyed, completely wrecked and undrivable. Jeff asks Kim what she did to the van because she she only said that it was the front fender. So how the hell she managed to drive it back? He has no idea. Jeff, dude, if you the whole front end of your car is pushed in. Like there's no way in hell that car was drivable. So you need to be wondering something else. But there was no way Kim was driving that back. Steven asks, What the fuck is going on? Tristan comes out of nowhere saying they dip their hands in your blood and then they press them on your body. So Stephen asks what she's talking about. Tristan tells him, the children, something, something she dreamt, but Jeff dreamt it too, and she points to Jeff, telling Stephen to look. Jeff lifts up his shirt and notices he's got the same markings, but his his markings are little handprints from a child. Stephen tells Tristan they all have them, including Erica, but Kim asks, Where is Erica? Everybody starts looking around, but Kim finds Erica's clothes on the floor where she was once sitting and chanting. So Kim goes outside, continuing to call for Erica. Next up, Kim is now in the interrogation room, handcuffed to a table. Kim is checking her shoulders for the markings, but there's nothing there. Cravins enters the room. We cut back to the group with Steven telling them they would have heard the dog alarm if she went outside, so it's like she vanished. Kim holding one of Erica's necklaces, saying, evaporated is more like it. But Jeff has doubts, accusing Kim by saying she's the one that found her clothes and the candles. So Kim asks him, What the hell is that supposed to mean? And Jeff answers, a prank. Two little bitches trying to freak them out. Kim calls him a paranoid fucking pushes him, claiming she would never do something like that, and neither would Erica. Kim, how do you know that? You just met her like a day or two ago. So you don't know much of her, so how do you assume that she wouldn't pull something like that? Stephen also questions Kim, wondering where she is and why all of her clothes are here and her other shit is still there. Kim answers, How is she supposed to know? Jeff responds, but can't you see her in your mind's eye? Jeff's an asshole for that. It was funny, I'm not gonna lie, though. Kim claps back with very funny asshole. She thinks something really bad has happened to her. Tristan asks, maybe she called somebody. Jeff makes a call asking to speak with Minister Geerson, but the woman on the other end tells him that he's in a meeting, but Jeff insists that it's urgent. It is about his daughter, Erica, wondering if he's heard from her. The woman informs him that the minister and Mrs. Gerson don't have a daughter, but Jeff responds with he knows that they disowned her because she's a witch, with the woman interrupts Jeff and telling him that they've never had any children and hang up. The group confused, trying to make sense of it, led by Stephen saying that Erica made up a story and gave them a fake name, but it doesn't have to mean any more than that. Jeff Frustrated responds that Erica lied and Kim asks why all of this is happening. So Stephen says he doesn't know, but maybe it's a collective delusion, a group hysteria. It's the book he's writing about, adding that if you get a bunch of people together and get them scared enough, but before he can finish, Jeff cuts him off, telling him to spare them the bullshit. But Stephen responds that it's real and that they teach it at junior college and that even Jeff can get into. Jeff's not having it and ask Stephen how'd he get in? What'd you have to do? Brush your teeth? While this is happening, the footage starts glitching, catching Kim's attention, and she tells Jeff to look at the screen. Jeff rewinds the footage revealing footage of his equipment being destroyed, saying that he knew that they'd come back and mess with his stuff. The telephone rings and Jeff answers that nobody's home and to fuck off, but it's Kravens. So Jeff tells him that he just found out who trashed his cameras and was about to call him. Cravens doesn't care. He tells him to turn on the TV, but Jeff responds that he doesn't give a shit about the TV. He has something to show him. Cravens says that he has something to show him too, the news at 11. Jeff tells them to turn on the TV and it's the broadcast of a special record report. The anchor goes on to deliver breaking news that there was a brutal murder that was discovered in the Black Hills. The bodies of five hikers were found on the landmark of Coffin Rock. Cravens tells them that they were disembowel. The anchor further says that the murders recreate the infamous Coffin Rock massacre, popularized by the movie The Blair Witch Project. Cravens adds that the bodies were laid out in the shape of a pentagram, and does it sound familiar? The anchor goes on to say they've received info that the victims include two tourists from China and one from Germany, as well as two unidentified white males. In the past year, the area has been overrun with movie fans, which is true because Burkitsville received a lot of foot traffic in key locations like Coffin Rock location, the cemetery, also where Josh parked his car. People kept stealing the Welcome to Burkittsville sign. And um, I actually took my kids there and showed them around a couple years ago. Anyway, back to the news anchor, and she continues that the fans were wanting to get a glimpse of where the Blair Witch project was filmed. Cravins tell him he didn't find his cameras, but it shouldn't be a surprise either of them. So Jeff asks what he wants from him. So Cravens tells him he's got five bodies, but Jeff tells him he's got nothing to do with that. Cravens responds that he might not have had been in charge, but he knows he had something to do with it. So him and his friends should sit tight, and that means none of them can leave the county. Suddenly an owl comes crashing through the window. I read somewhere, or maybe I I heard it, one of the two, uh, maybe another horror podcast, but apparently um we keep seeing the owl because the owl, owl, is supposed to represent uh the omen of death. Back to the movie, the group looks at the owl before glancing up at Tristan, who oddly looks at them and walks away without a word. Smoking weed, Jeff looks over at Steven and tells him he doesn't know him, he doesn't know anything about him, continuing by saying he doesn't know how much to believe about any of them. But from now on, know this. They are not leaving him there alone to take the fall for it. Nobody is going out of his sight. Kim tells Jeff they brought something back with them, but Jeff shuts it down saying he'll tell he'll tell what's going on. There's Erica or whoever the fuck she is. Kim walks away pissed, telling Jeff that Erica has nothing to do with this. Kim, how do you know that? You just met her like two or three days ago. You can't defend somebody if you don't know them. Anyway, Jeff unknowingly tells her she's a witch. She's one pissed off witch. She's casting spells, she's making herself appear, then disappear. It's been her since day one. So Kim tells him to smoke it up because he's not totally psycho yet. Kim walks away from Jeff and he asks her where is she going, and Kim tells him that she's getting the fuck away from him, telling him that he's a dick. Steven pleads with Jeff asking him if he knows or has anybody with the car, but Jeff responds asking him, What did he just tell him? Followed by he's not going anywhere. Jeff already said none of them were going anywhere to take the fall for him. Even Kravens told told uh Stephen that none of them were leaving the county. We cut back to Kim in the interrogation room with Cravens slamming tissue on the table, telling her to wipe the shit off of her face, talking about her makeup. Cravins adds that she thinks her makeup and black clothes gives her power, but she's just a scared, cowardly little girl underneath all of that. Kim replies that he doesn't understand. Something happened to them in the woods, something evil. In the next scene, Jeff approaches Kim, asking why she's so mad at him, and when he first looks at her, he sees us a vision of her eating the dead owl, but it turns out she was eating his leftover chicken. She tells him to calm down, she's not that pissed, but to stop bad mouthing Erica. Tristan sees her outside, telling them that she's outside, but when they all get up and to check the window, she's not there. So Stephen tells her she should get back in bed, so let's go to the bedroom, but Tristan tells him he just has to look. Stephen looks again and sees Erica walking backward around a tree and takes off running, saying that she's out there. Stephen opens the door and sees Erica on the bridge, asking her what happened to her. As he takes a step towards her, Erica takes a step backwards. So Stephen tells her to not be afraid. Erica tells him he knows who it is, but Stephen confused, asking her what she means by that. She tells him he knows what he has to do and walks away. Suddenly the bridge collapses, and Stephen hangs onto the rail, attempting to climb up. As Stephen is hanging from the bridge, over his shoulder he sees the ghost of Eileen Treacle, and she's standing there, also telling him that he knows who it is. Still trying to climb out, Tristan walks to the edge of the doorway and just stares down at him. Stephen pleads for her to help him, but she just walks away. Jeff and Kim run to his aid and help pull him up. We cut to the next scene. We see Tristan standing on the bed spinning around, saying that they did it. The little Buster boys, they did it. They hanged her. Stephen rushes in and helps her off the bed, telling her it was just a dream. Tristan tells him that they're not her dreams, they're Ellie Ketworth's dreams, and she doesn't know why she's having them. So Stephen asks how she knows that those are her dreams, and Tristan tells him it's because she's seeing them through her eyes. Tied to the tree where they banished her, the bad little boys from Blair Village sneaking out to the woods to see if she was still alive, and they let their big dogs bite at her. They poked her with sticks, and when the blood came out of her, they put their palms in it and pressed it against her flesh. Then when they found out she was still alive, they tied her up and they put the ropes around her necks and they hanged her from the tree. This is something that had no parts of it's like they they tried to add this to the lore of the Blair Witch because there's nothing about No, at least there's not much about her being hanged. It was always said that she was tied to the trees and left to die of ex of exposure. So I don't know why they didn't just stick with that. It's kind of like sloppy writing, to be honest, like they were just trying to fill a gap. Tristan tells Stephen she thinks she's going crazy, but Stephen assures her that she's not going crazy. Jeff's just sitting at the monitor watching them, basically spying on them. As Kim walks over to Jeff, he quickly turns off the monitor. Kim tells him that she's worried about Tristan and asks if he remembers the name of the doctor she was with, but he doesn't. So Kim tells Jeff that he should call the hospital, but he tells her to do it and points out that there's a phone book in the desk drawer. When Kim grabs the phone book, she sees underneath it is their folders with info about them along with their pictures. So Kim asks what they are and drops them in his lap, but Jeff has no idea where they came from, followed by Kim asking if he's been spying on them. Jeff responds, confused that he wasn't doing that. He doesn't know anything about the files. Stephen walks over while Kim accuses Jeff of investigating them. So Stephen approaches him wanting to know about the files, but Jeff accuses Kim of putting them there since she's the one that found him. In the next scene, Stephen is in the interrogation room with the detective tossing a foul on the table. The detective tells Stephen that they've been looking into his background, telling him that he's been such a good boy all of his life, and how did he get mixed up in this? Back at the house, the phone rings and Jeff answers it, and it's Kravens calling him a little shit. Jeff tells him he has something to talk to him about, and Kravens tells him so does he, and tells him to get his butt down there. So Jeff responds that it's gonna be impossible because his van is trash. Kraven yells that he's at the front door calling him a little twerp. Kravens does not like this man at all, and it shows because the shit he says to Jeff is hilarious. Jeff questions how could how could he even be there since the bridge is out? But when he looks on the monitor, the bridge is still there, it's fine, it's intact, and it's complete. As Jeff approaches the door, he hears Kravens banging at the door, yelling that he has stuff to talk to him about, saying that as a kid he was a little punk and he's still a punk. Jeff is having flashbacks back to his time at the psychiatric hospital. Jeff opens the door, revealing the bridge is still broken, and on the other side is barking dogs. Then he closes the door and goes to the closet to grab his gun, and when he returns to the door, the dogs are gone. When Jeff goes back to put the gun away, he finds Erica now in the closet facing the corner, but when he turns her around, he discovers that she's dead and he screams. Later on, they're sitting around visibly shaking, starting to point fingers. Jeff tells Stephen he was the last one to see her alive, but Stephen responds that the last time he saw her, she was heading up to see Jeff. So Jeff tells him that he didn't kill her. Stephen looks at Kim with her telling him to not even think it, think it. Jeff defends it saying that Kim was upstairs with him. Stephen claps back saying to clue Jeff in on something, that Erica didn't commit suicide, so one of them had to have done it, but Jeff responds, What about him? What gets him off the hook? Stephen tells him that his word, and Jeff tells him that his word is worth exactly shit to him. So Kim asks where Tristan was this whole time, and Stephen tells them that she can barely get out of bed. And as he says that, Tristan walks into the room saying that it's backwards. Stephen tells her to go back to bed, but Tristan tells them, the little girl, Erica dancing, backwards. Everything is backwards. Jeff asks her what she's talking about. Tristan laughs and says Wittershans. I had no clue what Wittershen's even meant, so I had to look it up. And Wittershans basically means to go counterclockwise. Tristan adds that undo the evil. So Jeff asks, What the fuck is Wittershans and tells Steven she's lost her mind. Kim figures it out and tells Jeff to run the tapes backwards. It may help them figure out what happened to Erica. Jeff tells her it makes no sense and Kim agrees, but tells him to just do it. Jeff sits at his desk running the footage backwards and nothing is showing. So right when he starts to say there's nothing there, the footage reveals the group is just partying, having fun, naked, making out with each other. Suddenly we see them with Steven and Tristan's research, destroying it, throwing it in the air, but then the group is seen they seem to be worshipping Erica with Tristan behind her while destroying all of Jeff's cameras. Tristan then brings them back, handing each of them machetes and sending them out into the woods naked. Tristan takes the takes the tapes and buries them in a corner. The timestamp reads 6 23 a.m. While Tristan approaches the camera, she stares into it right before tossing it on the ground. The footage returns to normal with a timestamp of 1.52 a.m. Stephen asks Tristan what she made them do, but Tristan isn't watching the footage. Her back is turned to them. Kim asks if she was leading them and she and was she watching the footage. Tristan tells her no and starts walking away with Kim telling her to get back there. Jeff says to grab her and he grabs one of his cameras. Tristan tells them to get their hands off of her for Stephen to tell and for Stephen to tell them to stop. Kim questions why she's the only one without the markings. Jeff asks, What did she do to Erica? But Tristan asks Stephen why he's letting them do that to her. Still accusing her of killing Erica, Jeff tells her to admit it to the camera because they are not going to take the fall for Erica. Jeff tells Tristan to not worry, that they're not going to hurt her, and Stephen adds like she hurt the baby, but Tristan tells him that she had nothing to do with that. Stephen tells her the witch hurts children. Tristan responds that she hasn't hurt or killed anybody and walks away, followed by Stephen telling her to just say the words. So she pushes him off of her and gives him the finger, then starts telling them that they're all gonna die. Signaling for Stephen to follow her, she asks if he wants to kill her, and he says no, he just wants to understand. So she tells him he he can't understand because he's afraid. Just like the pathetic little children of Blair Village, frightened. Kim asks who she is. Jeff yells she's the witch, so Tristan asks if that's what he thinks, calling calling him a crazy boy. Stephen pleads with Tristan to take him and she slaps the shit out of him, telling him that Tristan's gone. Kim demands that she get away from him, asking if this is what she wants while wrapping a rope around her neck. Stephen tells her whatever she's doing, she doesn't have to do it, but she responds she's not doing anything. It's all up to him. Kim asks why she killed Erica, but Tristan starts sniffing, sniffing Kim, telling her that she can smell the fear on her. So Kim tells her to stay away from him, but Tristan asks her if she wants to kill her, but but then tells her she can't and calls her Kimmy, flicking her chest just like she flicked the name tag on Peggy at the uh gas station. So Kim tells her that she'll rip her head off, and Tristan yells at her and tells her to do it then. Steven intervenes, telling Tristan to stop it. Tristan asks him if that's what his book is about. People just want to see something. Tristan starts to taunt him, telling him that he has no balls, and challenging him, telling him he can't do it, calling him pathetic. And you can see that's that Stephen's getting pissed, and she's just telling him that he's weak. He was the last one with balls and calling him a little bitch, and that's enough for him to shove her off the edge, snapping her neck and killing her. We get another cutscene of the toys group being ambushed by Jeff, Stephen, Erica, and Kim while they're asleep, being attacked, being beat with the camera, stabbed, repr stabbed repeatedly, and bound to the tree. And that's when we realize that it was them that killed the group, as if we didn't already know that. As we see this reveal, we also see the group staring at Tristan's body as it dangles in disbelief. We cut to a news broadcast with the anchor saying she's standing in front of an abandoned old factory in the tiny hamlet of Jericho Mills, just a few miles from Burkettesville, where just hours ago, police arrested three obsessed movie fans who allegedly committed a series of ritualistic murders after watching last summer's blockbuster movie The Blair Witch Project. Another news anger reports that she learned the vehicle behind her, talking about Jeff's vehicle that somehow has no damage on it at all, is owned by one of the suspects, and there's blood evidence leaking the suspects to the murders. Sadly, so many times before in this country, violent art has inspired real-life violence, and in this case it is the Blair Witch Project. Cravins tells Jeff that he's no documentary filmmaker, but he had the tape slapped together over at Montgomery College, and it sorta tells the whole story. Jeff tells him that that's great, he can see how insane Tristan was. She practically begs Stephen to push her. Stephen is looking through the files and pictures, and a detective asks him how he had the stomach to gut those torrents, but Stephen doesn't remember doing that. We cut to Kim in the interrogation room, wiping her makeup off, while the detective asks about Peggy holding up the nail file stained with blood. He then shows Kim the picture of Peggy dead, hunched over the counter. We cut back to the reporter saying one woman was hanged and the cause of death has yet to be determined. Ironically, both women were murdered by their friends after allegedly participating in vicious killings spree in the Black Hills. The police have not offered a motive, but they're hearing the two slain female killers were involved in witchcraft. Back with Jeff, the detective asks about the redhead, talking about Erica, telling Jeff she was a pretty girl, and asks why he killed her. Was it because she didn't want to put out? But Jeff tells him that they just found her in the closet, blaming it on Tristan, saying the witch got into her and fucked with her mind. Back at Steven, he continues to look through the pictures he sees. One of Tristan hanging. So the detective accusing him of killing her because she had a miscarriage, telling him that that was harsh. Stephen tells him that Tristan put the rope around her neck and she was taunting him, begging him to push her. So Stephen pleads his case that it was an accident, but then remembering Jeff recorded the whole thing, demanding that they play the footage, and when they do, it reveals that Tristan was begging for her life the entire time. Before we can see that, we're back in Kim's room. The detective asks if it was too much to pay for her beer, and Kim denies it, and he shows her the footage revealing revealing a confrontation between her and Peggy, resulting in her stabbing her repeatedly, ultimately killing her, but Kim denies doing that, saying that she didn't do that. In Jeff's room, Cravens shows him the footage of him dragging Erica's naked body to the closet while he's also naked. He claims that that's not how it happened, and he didn't do that. This goes back to Jeff saying earlier in the movie that film doesn't lie, or film lies but video doesn't. Back at Stephen's interrogation, we see him watching the footage with Tristan pleading and running away from him while Stephen demands that she confesses to Erica's murder. Jeff and Stephen accuse her of being a witch. Now with the rope, now with the rope around her neck, Stephen continues to demand her confession, Tristan saying and begging him to stop it. Then he shoves her off the edge, killing her and also calling her a fucking witch. Stephen sees this saying that it's wrong, accusing somebody of fucking with the tape, yelling that the tape is wrong and that it's bullshit, sobbing that it is bullshit. The scene cuts to black briefly before we're shown an aerial shot of the woods. As haunted by pole plays, the view continues as the screen fades to black and the credits role. Book of Shadows Blair Witch 2 was released on October 27, 2000, directed and written by Joe Berlinger and Dick Bebe. It had a budget of $15 million and brought in $47.7 million worldwide. The movie underwent several post-production changes and new soundtrack, additional editing, and new sequences added. Joe Burgling went on to say that this was not his original vision for Blair Witch 2, but he was forced to make the changes, and that explains why the movie is all over the place. This is a prime example of what studio interference will do to a movie. This movie is absolutely like it sucks. It's trash. It's an entertaining watch, but overall it sucks. Many people ask why title the book Book of Shadows when there's no there's no book of shadows seen or mentioned throughout the movie. But I did look into like, I guess, information on what a book of shadows would be in the world of witchcraft, and I found that the Book of Shadows is a real book, and it is used in the world of witchcraft, and there's different other variations of it. Even the show from back in the day called Charmed, I'm not sure if you remember that, but Charmed was a show centered around a trio of witches and their sisters, and it was passed down from their grandmother to their mother to them, and they have a book of shadows that they use pretty much in every episode. It includes potions, recipes, spells, cantations, etc. Alright. Anyway, that is it, folks. That is it for this week's terror. If you enjoyed it, please consider leaving a review and drop five stars on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform. We are now live on Spotify, Podbean, as well as our heart radio. Your feedback helps us reach more horror fans like you. It is greatly appreciated. A good way for us to interact would be on Twitter slash X at Chills and Thrill or TikTok and Instagram at Chills and Thrills Podcast. I can also be reached via email, chills and thrills podcast at gmail.com. In closing, as Ghostface always asks, what's your favorite scary movie? 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