Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
A group of college students decide to take part in a witch hunt tour inspired by a horror movie. As the adventure goes awry, the students realise that an evil being has followed them home.
Book of Shadows attempts something meta and interesting — a sequel that directly acknowledges the original film as a cultural phenomenon and plays with the line between reality and hysteria — but the execution is muddled and unsatisfying. The self-referential concept earns it a modest novelty bump over generic sequels, but the plot is incoherent rather than cleverly ambiguous, the acting is largely unconvincing, the cinematography abandons found-footage for conventional visuals without much artistry, and the ending fails to deliver meaningful resolution or genuine dread. A noble misfire that earns points for conceptual ambition but squanders them in almost every department.