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Summary: A REALLY Weird Sequel - But A Good Movie!
Review: Let me start off by saying dont rent or buy this movie in hopes that it is NEARLY a good as the first, but its still a good horror flick.The movie is set after the incident of the The Blair Witch Project in the Blackhills. Four "Blair Witch" crazed fans, go into the Blackhills in search of the Blair Witch. After a night in the woods, when the crazed fans wake, weird things start happening. Including a young girl who seemingly has a miscarriage, the cameras are torn to shreds, the papers that the college couple write, (research for the book "Blair Witch: History or Histeria?") are torn to shreds, and they all have strange markings on their bodys, Pegan Alphabet (which means they have been touched by a witch). As the journey comes closer and closer to the end, they realize that the Blair Witch just might not be a myth, OR IS IT?? I would defintely recommend this film to Blair Witch Fans - but keep two things in mind: Keep An Open Mind, Watch it More Than Once - It Makes It Easier To Interpet!
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Summary: Hype, Horror, & Hunted---chilling, owl-chomping goodness
Review: I didn't know what to expect from the widely ridiculed "Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows", so I killed the lights and popped it into the DVD hopper while the wind howled outside. Guess what? I was hugely entertained: "Book of Shadows" creeps and crawls and scratches on the windows, and it's a juicy, nasty, truly unsettling little horror film on its own terms. If you like, you need read no farther: just go rent this tasty little nugget of grue and give it a look. Still here? Great: I've got something that has been bothering me for years, and I've got to get it off my chest. Are all the Blair Witch Project groupies out of the room? Whew. Alright---I believe that many of the folks who made the groundbreaking and genuinely shivery "Blair Witch Project" a massive blockbuster hit were people who don't usually like horror movies. To them, the first "Blair Witch Project" wasn't a wallow in the horror-genre mud, it was more akin to an indie film: student filmmakers get lost in the Maryland woods, lots of shaky, dizzying camcorder shots, naturalistic dialogue, and tons of ambiguity. Was "Blair Witch Project" genuinely creepy-crawly unsettling, in a kind of "There was an Old Woman who lived by the Cemetery" way? Absolutely it was. But was it a full-blooded horror film? Decidedly not. And many---not all, but quite a few---of its fans would never have been caught dead or undead watching one of Blair's country cousins of the Horror genre: no "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Evil Dead" for them, thank you. So when documentarian Joe Berlinger's little nugget of unadulterated spooky grue came out and didn't offer more of the same subtle spookhouse art, it was doomed by these 'fans' from the start. Consequently "Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows" was savaged and reviled, and as a result it took me about a year before I caught up with it on DVD. Imagine my surprise: far from the cobbled together trainwreck I was expecting, "Blair Witch 2" is an intelligent, superbly edited, competently acted little locomotive of a horror film in its own right, and Berlinger very properly hones in on the hype that resulted from the first movie and makes it his own. Berlinger takes up where the first film left off: in the wake of the discovery of the three doomed filmmaker's canisters buried beneath a derelict house in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, the Blair Witch has become a pop culture phenomenon, and a media circus and an army of the curious has descended on the little Maryland town. Jeff Patterson (played to a wild-eyed and fickle hilt by Jeffrey Donovan) is a local entrepreneur who heads up the "Blair Witch Hunt", conducting tours of the hills and haunts of the Witch and selling Blair Witch paraphernalia out of his house/factory, a 19th century broom factory (broom factory---get it? get it?). Patterson hooks up with four customers, all of whom want to go on the "Blair Witch Hunt": a young couple, a pretty pagan (played by Erica Leerhsen, who is the yummiest thing I've seen in horror movies---or anything else---in years), and a cynical Goth (also played tastily and effectively by Kim Director). The five traipse into the woods, Leerhsen naively performs a little ceremony at the ruins of old Rustin Parr's country house, the pack gives a rival group of German and Japanese tourists a hard time, and then everybody parties---perhaps a little too hardy. When the gang returns to the broom factory, Something Else follows them home. And though the Something Else is certainly not a cute little puppy, there's no question as to whether they can keep It. The rest of the film is a slick, hyper-kinetic, and often genuinely crawly descent into madness and horror, and for my money one of the finest little chunks of true terror cinema out there. The acting is competent, the effects are spot-on, and the atmosphere is never clear-cut---for the most part, the film manages to evoke a feeling of something unsettling going on just out of eyeshot, a palpable sense of wrongness. The sequence between Leerhsen and Stephen Parker (played phlegmatically by Stephen Turner, who eerily resembles a young Ralph Fiennes)---the one where they examine each other's 'rashes'---is one of the creepiest I've seen in years. Given all the hatred of "Blair 2", I'm not sure what fans of the first wanted: more shaky camera angles, and perhaps another pseudo-documentary? If you want that, go watch the original again. If you're up for some full-bore horror that hides under your bed and snatches your ankle with its grave-cold claw, then watch "Book of Shadows": just don't let your pet owl see it.
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Summary: Its personal tastes that give you your opinion on this film!
Review: This film gets put down alot mostly from the people who liked the first blair with movie and compare this to that one! Well I completly hated the first movie, and blame that film for beeing the reason reality TV infests telivision these days! So if you hated the first film, you probably would like this one because it is nothing like the first crappy movie! This movie is not shot like on an amatuer camera like its pethitic first movie that claimed was a real story and then admitted it was not, just to make money! This film is about a couple of people who loved the story of the blair witch so much they meet through a web site and go on a maiden voyage trek out to the blair woods to find the place where the events happend! They find themselves then no remembering what happend the night they partied out in the blair woods and try to remember what happend, but they have been touched by the blair witch and delusions play on there mind and the story gets intresting from there! It might take a second time look to understand some parts, as it tends to skip from an even taking placing afterwards, and then showing what happend, and then all coming into place in the end! In all, i think this is a great film! And somehow they managed to steal my idea of someone making you see somthing thats not really happning! And maybe thats why i took a liking to it? But as long as your not one of those people who loved the first film and want to put this one down for not beeing done the same way, they you may actually enjoy this film! Not much to say about the bonus features, there not worth checking out, and unless you like the music that is on the film then the flip side dual disc of the soundtrack isnt worth a listen to!
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Summary: The Sequel Curse Strikes.
Review: I absolutely loved The Blair Witch Project. Even when my friends got horribly mad when it came to light that it was fiction (we all followed the movie before it came out in theatres), I still found it to be unique and unabashedly creative. So, when a sequel surfaced, I was there -- opening night. Ohhhh yeah. A few years after that night, sure, I can still watch this movie, but it's with a grain of salt. The documentary aspect of the original has vanished. Gone are the wobbly cameras and introduced is the epitome of Hollywood messing with a good thing. If you're looking for a TRUE sequel, this isn't it. It's more like a movie that was "inspired by" The Blair Witch Project. It is the strictly fictional (which is not misrepresented) misadventures of a group doing a Blair Witch Tour that was inspired by the hordes of people who flocked to Burkittsville, MD after the original movie came out. The characters are cookie-cutter. There's the requisite Gothic girl whose black clothing and penchant for eyeliner scare the local hicks, the requisite girl who gets naked on film, the requisite psycho guy who's just trying to stay out of the mental hospital and then the other two characters who, despite the fact that one of them has an intricate role, fails to really make a lasting impression. It doesn't seem like anyone really tried all that hard to make a movie with staying power beyond the $8 you paid to see it. It is a total B-level movie that made B-level money with a B-level cast that just so happened to have A-level promotion and an important name to live up to. I had heard before this movie came out that they were to make a prequel film as "Part III". Judging by the fact that Blair Witch 2 brought in a meager $28 million (compared to the original's $140 million), I doubt that is a possibility at this point. It's probably better that way. It's an OK movie with nothing in particular to add to the original. It would have stood better on it's own as a cheap, straight-to-video thriller. At least no one would have been disappointed.
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Summary: Its personal tastes that give you your opinion on this film!
Review: This film gets put down alot mostly from the people who liked the first blair with movie, and compare this to that one. Well I completly hated the first movie! and blame that film for beeing the reason reality TV infests our telivisions these days! So if you hated the first film, you probably would like this one! because it is nothing like the first crappy movie! Tho if your a fan of the first movie, youll probably hate this one! This movie is not shot like on an amatuer camera, like its pethitic first movie did, that movie that claimed was a real story, and then admitted it was not, just to make money! This film is about a couple of people who loved the story of the Blair Witch so much, they meet through a web site, and go on a maiden voyage trek out to the Blair Woods to find the place where the events happend from the movie! They find themselves then not remembering what happend the night they partied out in the blair woods, and try to remember what happend? but they have been touched by the Blair Witch, and delusions play on there mind! and the story gets intresting from there on. It might take a second time look to understand some parts? as it tends to skip from an event taking place afterwards, and then showing what happend after that, and then all coming into place in the end! But once you figure out how there presenting this and what the cut to one part to the other is , its easier to follow. In all, I think this is a great film! But as long as your not one of those people who loved the first film, and want to put this one down for not beeing done the same way, they you may actually enjoy this film! But its not for all tastes. I'd recomend a rental before thinking about buying it?! Not much to say about the bonus features, there not worth checking out, and unless you like the music that is in the film? then the flip side, dual disc, of the soundtrack isnt worth a listen to! The score is pretty boring to me. But some of you might have other opinions about that? Rent it at least before dissmissing it.
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Summary: Good idea but Poor execution
Review: When I first heard about about a Blair Witch sequel, I thought why? Here was this little indy movie, that made a ton of cash, was the water-cooler talk for the better part of a year, and was a truly unique film. Why try to top, or equal that? Of course, Hollywood saw a possible cash cow and a big studio jumped in and tainted the Blair Witch name. Now, I have to give the sequel credit in that it didn't just throw another group of kids into the woods and rehash the story from part one. The idea of Book of Shadows is actually a neat idea, but the execution of that idea was horrible. First of all, we are presented with such an annoying group of people to follow in Book of Shadows, I am immediately ready for the killing to begin. Seriously, I was praying Jason would come stumbling out of the woods with his hockey mask and machete to hasten the demise of this cast of characters that no one could relate to. The special effects get ramped up right along with the volume of the soundtrack, and I guess the producer hoped you wouldn't notice the bad acting and lack of story?? I see this movie is listed at under $2 used here on Amazon......Is it worth it? Not really, if you are like me and enjoy watching crappy movies now and again (Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Next Generation anyone?) then pick it up, but be warned...this could be one of those movies where in six months you may ask yourself "Was it really that bad?", pull it out to see and doom yourself to another wasted evening!!
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Summary: surprisingly good
Review: lemme preface this review by saying that i love campy gory horror movies, i love evil dead movies, texas chainsaw (the original), puppetmaster, child's play and so on. so when this came on showtime i decided it would be worth a watch. this movie has recieved alot of bad hype. www.x-entertainment.com rated this movie one of the worst films ever, and that's from the guys who said that "my demon lover" was good. don't believe the bad hype. this movie is worth a watch if you like bad horror movies and even has a decent surprise ending that can be interperated in diffrent ways
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Summary: As if the first time around wasn't bad enough...
Review: ... they actually came back and made a sequel!! Yikes! From A to Z, this movie is: Abominable, Boring, Crude, Despicable, Execrable, Frightful, Godawful, Horrible, Idiotic, Junk, Kitschy, Loathsome, Mindless, Nauseating, Obnoxious, Pathetic, Revolting, Sickening, Terrible, Unbearable, Vomitous, Wasted, X-cruciating (okay, I cheated there); and just plain Yucky... so drop the popcorn and Zoom to the nearest exit. (P.S. I couldn't think of a suitable word that starts with Q.)
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Summary: A Bigger Budget Equals A Terrible Film
Review: All the charm of the first film has been thrown out the window in favor a big budget Hollywood assembly line garbage.
Complete with cheesy fast-motion flashes of people shaking their heads or bodies. It could have been a terrific movie, the concept itself was great. To follow up in the wake of the original film and explore the aftermath. But bad writers and directors got a hold of the film and it was rushed out. This film should be labeled comedy and not horror.
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Summary: Back to horrible teen horror junk.
Review: The first movie was the greatest. When I first saw it, it was the first time I found myself losing time in a horror movie. But even if this movie wasn't being compared to the first Blair Witch movie, I would still rate it the same. This is just a sorry, desperate attempt to make more money off the title.
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