Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
R | 27 October 2000 (USA)
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Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.

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adonis98-743-186503

To cash in on all of the "real world" hype of the events in the first film, a man from Burkitsville, Maryland opens a "Blair Witch Hunt" tour, which shows patrons various locations from the original film. A bunch of college students decide to take the tour, and wind up in Rustin Parr's house. The first Blair Witch was far from a masterpiece and unfortunately this movie was far from a good sequel as well. I mean awful dialogue, terrible acting and an even worse story that the delivery feels like it's all over the freaking place to begin with, please don't see it.

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lorcan-61881

Book of shadows Blair witch 2 is about NO NO NO I'm not even going to say the plot because this film is terrible. Blair witch 2 insulted this franchise completely with its horrible plot and bad acting. The film was only this is the only good point by the way,it gave a interesting tale but it was so bad,the movies end when the three survivors did not kill the victims and the witch made it look like they did it,that was one of the worst endings I have ever seen in cinematic history..ugh this film annoyed me off completely,I hated this film and that's all I have to say. If you did not like the first movie don't watch this horrible film. Over the 2000 years,the Blair witch project get very successful it was released into 3 video games and then in 2009,the Blair witch project 3 was announced and was put on IMDb. Then no news was released and the movie was probably not going to be released UNTIL Adam Wingard,director of a segment in V/H/S and the guest announced the woods,a horror film for September 2016 that was under a fake title and it was really..'BLAIR WITCH 3'DUN DUN DUN,the movie was released in theaters and was about Heather's brother who tries to find her with a bunch of friends but stumbles into the Blair witch's hood and ya they..they die. The movie was said to be as scary as the first film and when I watched it..ya it was just not my thing,it had a good plot but it was no where as real and scary as the first film.

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utgard14

Crappy sequel to the hugely successful low-budget Blair Witch Project takes a different approach than its predecessor in every way. Instead of being done in found footage style, it's done as a traditional horror flick with a little documentary-style stuff thrown in. Instead of believable characters, creepy atmosphere, and not being afraid to leave some things up to the imagination, we get unlikable clichéd characters, bloody violence, nudity, and an obtrusive heavy metal soundtrack. As soon as the movie started with a Marilyn Manson song I could tell I was in for a stinker. The acting is mostly mediocre with a couple of exceptions. Jeffrey Donovan is absolutely terrible, hamming it up like he thinks he's Jack Nicholson or something. Of course he later went on to success with Burn Notice but even most viewers of that show could tell you how often he displayed the limitations of his acting ability there. Kim Director is the only one of the cast who seems to stand out in any positive way. It's a poor excuse for a movie that is everything Blair Witch Project was not -- loud, predictable, and utterly 'Hollywood' in every way that can be used as an insult. A lazy cash-grab sequel that is as awful now as it was then.

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chow913

I saw this film when it first came out. I was in college in 1999 only 20 miles away from Burkesville MD and so I understand as well as anyone the huge sensation 'The Blair Witch Project' caused. Every weekend about 25% of my college would roam around the Burkesville woods getting drunk and high.Hence, this film really hits home for me. Just as the viewer is forced to be around hung over kids whom spent the night drinking and smoking in the woods, so was a whole year of my college life! This is the classic example of a rushed sequel punched out to cash in the original's popularity before the fad wears off ('Sister Act 2' 'Sherk 2' 'Shanghai Knights') without any regard for quality. The studio never cares about quality because the sequel factor alone will guarantee box office success.The major factor here is that ALL FIVE of the characters are just named after the actors playing them! That's how fast this script was punched out! It was literally written ON THE SET! I'll never forget the trailer for this. Usually trailers highlight the major action and money shots of the film. This trailer actually showed a girl dancing on bed. Yup, that's the best shot they could show us to drag us into the theaters! A girl dancing on a bed! This is supposed to be a scary movie right?Anyway, five stoners camp out in the Burkesville woods just like 'The Blair Witch Project.' Scary? I'm always amused at how even respected film critics like Roger Ebert religiously recited 'The Blair Witch Project's promo, "the Black Hills of Maryland" as if somehow it's scary. Burkesville is the suburbs. The suburbs! No one can get lost in someone's backyard! And any "campers" would be arrested for trespassing. It's the suburbs! After a hard night of drinking and drugs the five kids awaken to find their book in progress destroyed by an industrial shredder. They all act surprised at having blacked out as if something scary has happened. Nothing scary has happened! They just passed out drunk! Next, the pregnant girl has a miscarriage. Drinking and drugging will cause that as well. The nurse at the hospital says, "Your body is telling you something's not right." as if it is scary. No, it's just the drinking and drugs! So the five kids go to what's described as an abandoned Civil War factory. WOW! Plumbing, electricity, paint and glass that's held up for 150 years! No wonder the North won the war, they were really advanced. WWII factor we might buy. But Civil War factory? Anyway, the kids watch the tapes of themselves from the night before but find nothing until they're played backwards. OF course you can't really do that because video doesn't work the same as film but whatever. The backwards footage reveals an orgy of drinking and drugs. We already knew about this!!! The kids then go into a trance and wander off to murder an neighboring group of campers. They're so out of their minds that they remember to bring a camcorder with them to capture it for posterity.Next the kids are interrogated by the police in scenes which fail to work as either drama or comedy as ALL the cops are overly acting redneck stereotypes. Again, Burkesville isn't the Deep South. It's the suburbs! Why are ALL the cops inbred rednecks? If the movie isn't going to take these scenes seriously neither is the audience.All in all it is fun for some laughs and not horribly made. It does go down as a classic example of a punched out and rushed cash in sequel.Only one mystery remains. What's the "Book of Shadows?" There are no books or shadows in this film or even mention of them! Again, this leads me to conclude there were multiple studio scripts and rewrites and the film was just slapped together without regard.

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