Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Short description
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 follows a group of young people who sign up for a tour built around the Blair Witch legend. The outing takes them into the Maryland woods near Burkittsville, where they camp close to the site tied to the hermit Rustin Parr, and they set up cameras hoping to record something. By morning their equipment is wrecked and none of them can recall several missing hours. Strange marks on their bodies convince them they have been caught up in something far worse than a tourist attraction, and when they return to town, whatever they encountered appears to have come with them.
Joe Berlinger directs his first fiction feature here, working from a screenplay he wrote with Dick Beebe, after establishing himself as a documentary filmmaker. The film came first in the directing chronology given here, ahead of Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Jeffrey Donovan plays Jeff Patterson, the tour organizer, with Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen, Tristine Skyler and Stephen Barker Turner as the four students, and Lanny Flaherty as Sheriff Cravens. Artisan Entertainment and Haxan Films produced it on a budget of 15 million dollars.
Shot in 2000 and released that October, the sequel to The Blair Witch Project took about 48 million dollars worldwide, several times its cost. Audiences were unmoved: IMDb users rate it 4.1 out of 10 from roughly 42,000 votes, and TMDB shows 4.4 from just under a thousand. Critics, at 4.1 from 109 reviews, landed in the same place as the audience.
What's left behind the scenes
- Residents of Burkittsville disapproved of the idea of filming a sequel to "The Blair Witch Project" and, according to the director, simply drove the film crew out of the settlement. The documentary footage at the beginning of the film is assembled from excerpts of interviews with the few locals who agreed to speak with the filmmakers.
- The scene of the film being played in reverse – a repetition of a similar scene from the film "The Exorcist".
- Before filming began, Joe Berlinger asked all the lead actors to watch as many horror films featuring supernatural forces as possible.
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