Local resident and former mental patient jeffrey patterson is cashing in with blair witch merchandise and is taking four tourists on his inaugural blair. Blair witch 2 2000 joe berlinger on allmovie one of the most financially successful. Blair witch 2, starring jeffrey donovan, stephen barker turner, erica leerhsen, kim director. The blair witch project and blair witch 2 book of shadows. Why the new blair witch movie ignores book of shadows.
The sequel to one of the most successful independent horror films of all time, book of shadows. Blair witch 2 full movie free 2000 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. 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. In this alternate continuity, this version of elly kedward, aka the blair witch, is depicted as being less mysterious in favor of being more upfront and personal. Book of shadows soundtrack original soundtrack on allmusic 2000 while this soundtrack is mostly forgettable as a. College students at a boston college become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in maryland, so they decide to go into. This sequel to blair witch project is all formula and no creativity, mechanically borrowing elements from the original and other horror movies. Blair witch 2, which was rushed into theaters one year later, earning the scorn of. You can either essentially just remake the first successful film like they did with hatchet 2 for example or you can veer off in a completely new direction which is what the makers of blair witch 2 did.
If you were planning to watch or rewatch book of shadows. Four college fans of the blair witch project take a tourist trip into the famed haunted woods hoping to answer the question. Blair witch 2 free movie streaming, book of shadows. Maryland opens a blair witch hunt tour, which shows patrons various locations from. Last summers the blair witch project was a bona fide popculture phenomenon, as well as one of the most original horror films in ages, a visionary chiller that combined the immediacy of a documentary with the unsettling mood of a val lewton film. Elly is the spirit that haunts the woods of burkittsville and is responsible for centuries of. Blair witch 2 who arent the original blair witch writerdirectors are documentarians who made a more absorbing nonfiction feature called paradise lost about a murder case in which three high schoolers may have been falsely accused because of their gothic looks and music, not unlike the socalled wiccans.
Blair witch 2 is a sequel to the cult film the blair witch project and concerns the reaction to the first film. A group of tourists arrives in burkittsville, maryland after. I suppose it seems clear enough to berlinger, who cowrote it and helped edit it, but one viewing is not enough to make the material clear, and the material is not intriguing enough, alas, to inspire a second viewing. First it claimed three poor souls in the biggest indie breakout hit ever. I would love to experience a true directors cut and wonder if it would have been as memorable, because book of shadows, as it is, is a fun little flick that deserves better than some of the ratings its garnered by those wanting more blair witch project. As it follows the twisted path traveled by five people fixated on the blair witch project, book of shadows. Disposable teens written by marilyn manson, jeordie white as twiggy ramirez and john 5 performed by marilyn manson. A bunch of college students decide to take the tour, and wind up in rustin parrs house.
The film has been given a letterboxed transfer in the widescreen aspect ratio of 1. Its success made a sequel inevitable, but faced with the. Blair witch 2 perhaps there really is a blair witch curse. In this film, a group of four teenagers led by jeff patterson go into the black hills, the home of the blair witch, to see if the legend is really true. Blair witch 2 is a not a very lucid piece of filmmaking and contains no book of shadows. Blair witch 2 journeys into a dark and dangerous place where the line between truth and fiction blurs and perhaps vanishes altogether. Find them all here, plus the hottest sex scenes from movies and television when you visit mr. The sequel as well as the games received poor response from critics and audiences alike.
No, the blair witch project didnt need a sequel, and no, book of shadows. Blair witch 2 2000 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Everything and i mean everything that made the blair witch project a little indie masterpiece has been falsified and trashed. A group of tourists arrives in burkittsville, maryland after seeing the blair witch project 1999 to explore the mythology and phenomenon, only to come face to face with their own neuroses and possibly the witch herself. Blair witch 2 2000 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Their purpose was just to show the global obsession with the blair witch. Anyone out there looking for answers behind the newly created mythos of the blair witch is going to have to keep looking, because the answers arent here in this sequel to the original blair witch project. With jeffrey donovan, stephen barker turner, erica leerhsen, kurt loder. After several people went missing while on a hunt for the blair witch, the residents of a small town in maryland are less than happy with the never ending stream of. Buy the blair witch project and blair witch 2 book of shadows vcd in kuala lumpur,malaysia.
I guess i shouldnt say sequel, because even though its presented as a sequel, book of shadows. Blair witch 2 2000 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. A year after the faux documentary film, the blair witch project, put its setting burkittsville, md on the map, hordes of fans and curiosity seekers regularly descend upon the town, hoping to grab a souvenir or memento and see the sights, despite the fact that the story. Blair witch 2 journeys into a dark and dangerous place where the line between truth. Blair witch 2 is a 2000 american psychological horror film, directed and cowritten by joe berlinger and starring jeffrey donovan, stephen. Help us release the directors cut of book of shadows. Blair witch 2 picks up a few years after the events that took place in the first film. What isnt as commonly discussed is the sequel, book of shadows. After spending a night in the hill of maryland, four young fans of the original blair witch movie descend into a nightmare realm of murder, madness and perceptionsbending. Individual perception grows increasingly untrustworthy as the films protagonists find themselves caught in a vortex of unspeakable evil, the origins. Blair witch 2 is not the sequel that modern horror. 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.
Blair witch 2 does well to integrate the euphoria surrounding the original movie and still deliver a genuinly unique and unpredictable kind of movie. Lie down written by sonny sandoval, noah bernardo jr. With erica leerhsen, jeff donovan, stephen barker turner, tristen syklar and kim director. As of the latest count, the blair witch project has spawned one sequel, the blair witch project 2. Laura clifford robin clifford its 1999 and fans of a movie called the blair witch project are flocking to the annoyed town of burkittsville, maryland. Blair witch 2 before seeing blair witch, the good news is that now you dont have to. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. This thoroughly secondrate followup to the groundbreaking and highly profitable horror flick the blair witch projectproduced by blair witch directors daniel myrick and eduardo sanchezplays with the notions of reality and fantasy that surrounded the hype of the original movie, and attempts to throw in some. Blair witch 2 has been given a wellexecuted presentation for this dvd release.