Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

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After a film based on simple idea and made with ridiculously low budget becomes box office phenomenon and critics’ darling, its sequel is very unlikely to repeat its success. If such sequel happens to have exponentially larger budget, it is all but certain that it would fail at box office and be be greeted with hostility by critics. This thing happened to Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, 2000 horror film directed by Joe Berlinger, a sequel to immensely successful The Blair Witch Project.

Just like in the previous film, opening titles claim that the plot was based on real events. While the claim in The Blair Witch Project is false, in case of Book of Shadows it has at least some basis in facts. Script, co-written by Berlinger and Dick Beeb, is inspired by something that really happened in the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland. Townsfolk were suddenly besieged by obsessed fans of The Blair Witch Project, many of them unable to set the film’s fiction from banal reality. Protagonist is Jeffrey Patterson (played by Jeffrey Donovan), local citizen recently released from psychiatric institution. Trying to make easy money, he begins organising trips to the woods where the film used to be shot. The latest group of tourists involves graduate student Stephen Ryan Parker (played by Stephen Barker Turner), his pregnant girlfriend Tristen Ryler (played by Tristine Skyler); self-described Wiccan witch Erica Geerson (played by Erica Leerhsen) and Goth subculture enthusiast Kim Diamond (played by Kim Director). All five go to the woods and have a good time until waking up with amnesia and seeing their belongings damaged or strewn around. Trying to make sense of what happened, they go to an abandoned factory where they learn that another group of tourists was brutally murdered. After they start to experience hallucinations Jeffrey and his customers begin to wonder what is going on – is the real “Blair Witch” after them, does a serial killer uses local legend as cover or whether they are all victims of mass hysteria that took away their ability to set fantasy from reality.

Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, directors of The Blair Witch Project didn’t want the sequel to made, at least not immediately. Executives of Artisan Entertainment had other ideas, convinced that the hype created around sleeper hit must be exploited while it is still there. Myrick and Sanchez were relegated to the role of executive producers and direction was given to Joe Berlinger, film maker best known for true crime documentaries. He, much to his credit, worked very hard to make Book of Shadows as different from The Blair Witch Project as possible. “Found footage” quasi-documentary technique was replaced with conventional live action; videotape was replaced with 35mm film and Book of Shadows extensively used flashbacks and editing. But the most important difference between two films was genre. While The Blair Witch Project worked as pure horror, Berlinger’s film added elements of black humour and satire aginst modern media industry that made it closer to Craven’s Scream. The cast, which was mostly unknown at the time, includes Jeffrey Donovan who would later become star of television series Burn Notice. Most of their efforts aren’t particularly memorable, and that includes Kim Director who appears in the film with extensive black makeup and Erica Leerhsen who briefly appears nude. Lanny Flaherty, on the other hand, goes over the top in the role of redneck Sheriff, drowning the film in cliches and making it unintentional parody of itself. Even with such flaws, Book of Shadows is a solid, watchable and occasionally very entertaining film and it could have been much better if we are to believe Berlinger who complained about studio meddling with his work and releasing the film very different from his original vision. Despite decent box office results, it was considered a disappointment and even “won” Razzie for Worst Sequel. In 2016 the franchise had its third film under title Blair Witch, a sequel to original film that completely ignored plot of Book of Shadows.

RATING: 5/10 (++)

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Blair witch 2 is a movie that was shot in 2000, one year after the famous The Blair Witch Project. Is the film haunted after 21 years? I invite you to read.

The film breaks with the convention of documentary film in favor of a fictional story. The film focuses on the fate of four young people, a shorter film about the "fashion for the witch Blair".

Has a huge amount of cameras and sells various gadgets related to the Blair Witch, a lady who is sad because she is pregnant and does not know what she is doing there, and a medium lady who wears black (the best character in this movie)

There are some names in the movie , but trust me you will call them the same as I do because they are boring to the core. Our cheerful crowd like from the Scooby Doo series eats as if it could not be otherwise a car that is signed Blair Witch.

Our wanderers, of course, stop in the forest in which the action takes place in the previous film and .. somehow they go straight to the house known from the finale ... but this house is only demolished with a large tree in the middle.

Our heroes drink and take marichuana in such quantities that only Diego Maradona could help them, when the night turns out like after a fairy tale, everyone is suddenly asleep.

When they wake up in the morning, all their work (spinning around and recording three trees) turned out to be destroyed because someone spoiled all the footage.

They suspect another team that was hanging around at night, but they do not go looking for them, but decide to find the tapes (note hidden under the stone). The cards contain footage from the previous night.

The nightmare will begin when they start watching what they did in the movie. The movie is very bad, the number of errors can be enumerated endlessly, from a bad script to editing errors. The heroes behave as intellectually disabled, seeing something strange more than once or twice as if it was the norm. the worst scene is to play the movie for so many times and time is running forward;>

(Trailer)

The music is selected on the basis of youth films, i.e. Marilyn Manson and others with strong playing because it was on top around 2000.

The atmosphere in this movie does not exist, even if there is a moment which could scare a bit, the editing and the main characters try to make it very badly played.

The finale slightly saves the whole tragedy of the film, where it gives viewers a bit of a well-thought-out script. However, the entire central part is even a mockery of the viewer, who, watching it every moment, feels embarrassed and laughs at the main characters.

It is a pity that director Joe Berlinger made a dumb decision and abandoned the conventions of the document, because the finale even emanates an interesting documentary idea, but the whole as a feature film with stupid texts came out poorly very poorly.

It was supposed to be an interesting competitor of the already famous Blair Witch Project and the worst movie of 2000 fiction came out, where literally everything is located from acting and exaggerated characters to idiotic editing inserts that did not contribute anything to the whole story (children) and ending with assembly errors that happen in this movie very often.

As a documentary, it would certainly be more interesting, and unfortunately I rate this film on 2/10 because of the finale, which had the potential for an interesting story of "frenzy" around Blair Witch, but half of the film is almost impossible to watch, everyone who watched this movie should watch it congratulations on the lost hours and thirty minutes and give yourself a medal

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