Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Director:

Joe Berlinger

Writers (WGA):

Daniel Myrick (characters) and
Eduardo Sánchez (characters) ...

Release Date:

27 October 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Evil Doesnt Die.

Plot:

College students at a Boston college 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.

Plot Keywords:

Witch | Murder | Female Nudity | Dream | Wiccan

Awards:

2 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Kim Director	...	Kim Diamond
Jeffrey Donovan	...	Jeffrey Patterson
Erica Leerhsen	...	Erica Geerson
Tristine Skyler	...	Tristen Ryler (as Tristen Skyler)
Stephen Barker Turner	...	Stephen Ryan Parker
Kurt Loder	...	Himself
Chuck Scarborough	...	Himself
Bruce Reed	...	Burkitsville Resident #1
Lynda Millard	...	Burkitsville Resident #2
Deb Burgoyne	...	Burkitsville Resident #3
Andrea Cox	...	Burkitsville Resident #4
Joe Berlinger	...	Burkitsville Tourist #1
Sara Phillips	...	Burkitsville Tourist #2
Lanny Flaherty	...	Sheriff Cravens
Pete Burris	...	MBI Man #1

Also Known As:

BW2 (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
BWP2 (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
Blair Redux (USA) (working title)
Blair Witch 2 (USA) (working title)
Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows (USA) (working title)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Project 2 (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language, sexuality and drug use.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Malaysia:18PL | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:18 | Philippines:PG-13 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:18 | Hong Kong:IIB | Japan:PG-12 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #37725) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Company:

Artisan Entertainment

Trivia:

The playing of the tapes backwards is a reference to The Exorcist (1973).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Erica and Stephen are sitting at the table after Stephen has his hallucination kiss scene, the items on the table move between shots, notably the newspapers in front of Erica.

Quotes:

Kim: They never should've let you out. You're a long way from sane.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)

Soundtrack:

All or Nothing

A horror of a movie.

This isn't as much a horror movie as a horror of a movie. It goes something like this. Throw in the usual decoys; a Goth chick who's hard outside but soft and chewy inside, a real Wiccan witch, whose petulant disdain for mere mortals is the entire range of her acting ability, and a really cool loft with a fallaway bridge for isolating the idiots who were stupid enough to get caught inside. Then have all the so-called actors yell and scream a lot to show how really deep they are.

But the grand prize goes to Jeffrey Donovan, who is so bad that even John Waters wouldn't cast him if they happened to run into each other somewhere on the streets of Baltimore. And if he did, he would have had the sense to play this crap for high camp, because playing it seriously only succeeds in producing a banal, juvenile and completely unimaginative dung heap.

What amazes me most is the bombastic and pretentious commentary track on the DVD. Is this guy for real? Does he really think dropping a litany of terms he picked up in film school is going to convince us that this is high art? Now that's scary!