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The VHS Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 The Blair Witch Project	DVD Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 The Books Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows	Soundtrack Book of Shadows:Blair Witch 2 (2000 Film Soundtrack) The soundtrack is probably the scariest thing about this whole undertaking they attempted to call a film, due solely to the groups on it.  A lot of the songs on this kick, so if you like the evil metal thing, this might be a decent investment.  Beats the crud out of the movie.  -CDM The Score Blair Witch 2:  Book of Shadows:  The Score
If it's scary music you're looking for my top two recommendations for 2000 movies would have to be What Lies Beneath and The Cell.  Some of the music in these two are downright horrifying. -CDM
Feel like taking your own stroll through Burkittsville, but not in the mood to have your teeth ripped out and sent to your friends wrapped in the bloody shreds of your shirt?  Try these:
Blair Witch Episode 1: Rustin Parr 1941	Blair Witch Episode 2: Coffin Rock 1886	Blair Witch Episode 3: Elly Kedward 1786

The Blair Witch Catastrophe:  Book of Shadows
by Michael Flanagan

Pathetic

            First and foremost, my main question for the makers of the eagerly anticipated sequel to The Blair Witch Project is this:  Why is it called Book of Shadows?  No Book of Shadows exists in the film, no major books exist in the film, actually, and few shadows grace the walls of the house, which is the setting for the movie.  That's right, not the woods, but a house.  A haunted warehouse, if you will, that ends up being about as scary as The Pirates of Penzance exhibit at Disney World . . . okay, that's unfair.  Disney World is far more frightening than this film.

            But why call it Book of Shadows?  In an attempt at answering the question, I have provided several alternatives to the current title that more aptly suit the movie.

            Suggestion one:  Bad Actors in Hell.  It's scary, it's powerful, and it even provides a sense of overbearing oxymoron, a little twist of irony to go along with a story that contains no literary devices whatsoever.  Hey, you may as well put it in the title, right?  But no, you can't advertise movies with the word "Hell" on prime time television, so onward . . .

            Suggestion two:  How to Ruin an American Film.  This one is my personal favorite, as it accurately describes what seems to be the purpose of the sequel.  It takes away any excitement, originality, and horror that the first film so phenomenally created and replaces it with The Real World meets Frankenstein.  Actually, scratch that, since The Real Frankenstein World might actually be a better idea.

            Suggestion three:  We're Going to Make Money Regardless of Whether We Spend Any Time Trying to Create Anything Good, So We're Going to Make This Piece of [word that also cannot be used in prime time…or any time on television] Instead, Because the World is Full of Suckers Like You:  Blair Witch 2.  The studio already made a profit, and they sold the film overseas for over 20 million, so it just might work.  But, it's a little long...

            Final Suggestion:  Pathetic.  At least some good would come of that.  It would serve as a nice advertisement for HugeReviews.com.

The very latest in cringe-worthy cinema:  Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows Review
Christian De Matteo

PATHETIC

            The Blair Witch 2:  Book of Shadows production meeting:
            “So we got this astoundingly successful, low budget horror flick that’s making us millions."
            “Yes, sir, we do.  The Blair Witch Project is a runaway smash."
            “Why do you think it’s so successful?”
            “Probably it’s originality, sir."
            “Right, well then, why not do a completely different sequel that’s just like all the other horror movies coming out right now, as trite and un-frightening as possible, with as many wisecracks a minute as we can write, spoofing the original, trying only to work off a thread of the original mythology, and yet abandoning the plot line and simultaneously any hint of what made the original so successful.”
            “Brilliant, sir.  We can even spent tons of money on crappy FX and music bands for the soundtrack and not a dime on story or plot!”

            Only if that exact conversation took place can I understand the debacle that occurred with one of the most anticipated sequels in years.  Isn’t the old adage, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it?  Why would the producers of BW2 try to make a Scream series rip-off when the very success of BW1 lay in the fact that it was nothing like any of the current teen horror genre?

            The movie starts promisingly teasing you with the idea that, Hey, look we’re not just rehashing the last flick, but we’re going to do something different.  Whereas the first movie did its damnedest to prove to you that it wasn’t fiction, this one says flat out, that was fiction and this is a true tale of how the movie effected people.  Could work.

            And then you meet the cast:  dumb, dumber, dumber yet, even dumber and stoned, and hot-but-not-particularly-bright.  Finally, throw into the mix a sheriff who walks, talks, and acts like the breathing embodiment of every way-down-South stereotype… playing the Maryland born local sheriff and painfully serious buffoon.

            Doing so well already, the producers must have said, Since we didn’t use any formula horror material in part one, let’s quadruple the formula in part two.  Only a perfectly tiny amount of terrifying blood in Blair Witch 1?  Tons randomly spattered throughout this one.  No nudity in part one?  A drunken, stoned, group orgy complete with mutilation in part two.  No formula outline of events in part one?  Guess what….

            So you sit there wondering if anyone put any thought into this, and then remember that the first twenty minutes were spent setting the Goth girl up as psychic… and then it’s never mentioned again.  That plot line is entirely scratched along with logic, interest and fright.

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