10 Movie Sequels That Pointlessly Took Away Things Fans Loved

3. The Found Footage Style - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

1999's The Blair Witch Project is one of the most influential horror films of all time, popularising the found footage format and making ingenious use of its low budget to imply that what the audience is seeing is, in fact, totally real.

It might seem baffling to audiences today, but 20 years ago it was much easier to take The Blair Witch Project seriously as a piece of literally found footage, without every household in the developed world having access to the Internet.

This only helped the film become a viral, word-of-mouth phenomenon which just had to be seen, and in the tradition of any hit horror movie, studio Artisan Entertainment quickly put together plans for a sequel.

But rather than just repeat the same style again, the studio bizarrely opted to ditch the found footage gimmick and make Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, released barely a year later, a more cinematically conventional sequel.

The result was a film that really only felt like a Blair Witch movie in name, and though it was still financially successful, it clearly could've been a much bigger hit both critically and commercially if it kept the first film's unique, widely praised stylistic conceit.

Instead this was a bog standard horror flick, and a pretty bad one at that, receiving five Razzie nominations including an apt win for "Worst Remake or Sequel."