I can imagine a preacher thundering from his pulpit: "This Berlinger comes down here and makes a couple of propaganda films making us look bad, and then what does he do? Makes a film glorifying black magic and witches." If the film had argued against the mind-set that essentially framed the West Memphis Three, that would be one thing. At the same time, because of loaded characters and dialogue, "BW2" supplies ammunition to those who think the Arkansas prisoners are guilty.
It's a muddled, sometimes-atmospheric effort that could have come from many filmmakers. The movie shows no special insight that made it necessary for Berlinger to direct it. But now that I've seen "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2," I'm disturbed.
I wondered earlier why Berlinger would want to make a fiction film on witchcraft and black magic, but suspended judgment: He is one of the best documentarians around. The movies are deadly serious because they make the case that injustice is being done.
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