15 Movie Titles That Blatantly Lied To You

4. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Book Of Shadows
Artisan Entertainment

What It Suggests

When you stick any title prefix or suffix on a sequel, you're basically supposed to be setting out the key thrust of it. The Lost World: Jurassic Park, for instance was about the "lost world" of Isla Sorna and the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies all set out their stories after the colon.

So, this Blair Witch sequel seemed to be suggesting that the story would centre on a mythical Book Of Shadows.

The Truth

In the sequel, there is precisely zero mention of any "Book of Shadows". Their is Wicca involved, but it seems that the film was basically trying to capitalise on the success of Charmed by borrowing a key element and then never referring to it again.

Sure, you could claim that the book the "heroes" are researching could have been called that, but if that was the case, they should probably have at least bloody mentioned it.

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