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Blair Witch II. Please God. No.

In a triumph of money over good sense, the team behind Blair Witch - surely one of the worst, most over-hyped films of 1999 - are now looking to cash in on their success with both a sequel and a prequel.

The original dummy documentary about a group of film students who are hunted down in a Maryland forest by supernatural forces was - IMHO - a mistake that should have never happened.

But now the second movie - entitled in a blaze of imagination - Blair Witch 2, should now press ahead under the leadership of Joe Berlinger, whose credits include the movie Brother's Keeper.

Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick - the lucky bastards who found success with their art school dog droppings the first time around - will be acting as consultants on the second movie, and have agreed to direct and produce the third movie all on their own.

The cost to movie company Artisan of getting the boys to rehash the Blair Witch thing, is allowing them to greenlight another of their pet projects, a comedy called Heart of Love.

Production on the next cash cow is scheduled to start in February, for an all too predictable Halloween 2000 release.

The 3rd movie (the prequel, we think) is to start shooting this winter with a release date in 2001.

Both movies have sucked up a budget of ten million, which rather begs the question of Why? The first film only took $40,000(ish) to make, and the shaky vid-cam concept was obviously the only thing that put a booster under the original Blair Witch.

Those who mistook this as originality have obviously not been exposed to a series of British TV series where members of the public are invited to send in their home camcorder movies for the privilege of winning a tenner if they are shown.

If Blair Witch had been shown alongside videos of juggling dogs and babies falling over, it would have raised not an eyebrow, we suspect.

So could we see some Industrial Light & Magic FX in the next movies? Surely even Hollywood wouldn't be stupid enough to give the Big Budget treatment to Blair Witch?

We have a couple of words to say. Dr Who the Movie.

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