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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

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Reviews Counted:103

Fresh:13

Rotten:90

Average Rating:3.4/10

Consensus: This sequel to Blair Witch Project is all formula and no creativity, mechanically borrowing elements from the original and other horror movies.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] violence, language, sexuality and drug use

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Oct 27, 2000 Wide

Box Office: $25,933,572

Synopsis: Artisan Entertainment's Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 delves deeper into the legend of the infamous Blair Witch and the unspeakable evil wrought in the Black Hills near Burkittsville,... Artisan Entertainment's Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 delves deeper into the legend of the infamous Blair Witch and the unspeakable evil wrought in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 takes place in present-day Burkittsville, after the events chronicled in The Blair Witch Project. Four young people have signed up for a tour of the Black Hills, the latest Blair Witch-inspired moneymaker dreamed up by Jeff Patterson, a black sheep townie with a murky past. They set up camp near the foundation of the house that belonged to Rustin Parr, the old hermit who was hanged for the murders of seven children, a crime that bore the mark of the Blair Witch. In the morning, the campers awake with no memory of having gone to sleep and five hours stolen from their lives. They return to Jeff's residence, an abandoned 19th Century warehouse at the edge of Burkittsville, to try to piece together what happened.

But the strange occurrences haven't ended with that night, as legend and reality become frighteningly entwined. Bizarre symbols appear on their bodies, children's plaintive crying is heard, phantasmagoric visions confound their eyes, and fleeting apparitions suggest the villainy of the distant past. In the woods, a grisly discovery at Coffin Rock recalls a deadly chapter in the history of the Blair Witch. No longer sure what is real and what is imagined, the five young people start to unravel psychologically, eyeing one another with suspicion and edging ever closer to mass hysteria. Too late, they realize that when they left the woods, they didn't leave alone... [More]

Starring: Tristan Skylar, Stephen Barker Turner, Jeffrey Donovan, Kim Director

Starring: Tristan Skylar, Stephen Barker Turner, Jeffrey Donovan, Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen, Lanny Flaherty

Director: Joe Berlinger

Director: Joe Berlinger
Screenwriter: Jon Bokenkamp, Neal Marshall
Producer: Daniel Myrick, Bill Carraro
Studio: Artisan Entertainment

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Reviews for Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

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Flashy, derivative and makes absolutely no sense. It's not even scary.

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Rob Blackwelder
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Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Just another bad horror film with inadequate young actors chased around a big house by something.

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Robert Horton
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Diverting and unexpectedly funny, and it delivers a few well-fashioned jolts that should please horror junkies.

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Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

While it's not as clever as it thinks it is, it's considerably better than we had any right to expect.

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Robin Askew
Robin Askew
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The story contains very few chilling moments.

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Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
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Not a very lucid piece of filmmaking.

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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Less like the first, more like any other ordinary scary movie of recent years

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Ross Anthony
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Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw
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The sorriest quickie horror sequel since Jason turned in his hockey mask.

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Scott Von Doviak
Scott Von Doviak
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Feels like a big teaser for next year's Blair Witch 3.

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Sean Means
Sean Means
Film.com
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There are moments of pleasure, humor and, yes, terror to be had here all the same.

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Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

For all its clever notions, Book of Shadows often seems more like a montage of pasted-together images than a coherent horror story.

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Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Ambitious but lame.

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Steve Murray
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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I wasn't a fan of The Blair Witch Project, but it is a cinematic masterpiece of originality compared to its sequel.

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Steve Rhodes
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While Berlinger may indeed be a good documentarian, he seems woefully inept at coaching consistently professional-level performances from young actors in a fictional film.

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Susan Granger
Susan Granger
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It's not the first horror movie to end up making no sense, but it may be the first that actually appears proud of the accomplishment.

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Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Who could have guessed that by the final chapter of this Book of Shadows it isn’t the characters who get lost in the woods; it’s the filmmaker.

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Todd Anthony
Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Intelligent, inventive, worried and surprising.

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Tom Long
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