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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

2000 US HMDB
octubre 27, 2000

Jeff Donovan, un vecino de Buskerville, obsesionado con el misterio que envuelve a la bruja de Blair, organiza una expedición junto a sus compañeros de universidad para adentrarse en los bosques de Maryland, encontrar a los tres estudiantes de cine desaparecidos, y resolver de una vez por todas la verdad sobre la leyenda de la bruja... Un reputado documentalista (Joe Berlinger) dirige esta secuela de la exitosa "The Blair Witch Project".

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Produccion: Bill Carraro (Producer)Daniel Myrick (Executive Producer)Eduardo Sánchez (Executive Producer)
Guion: Dick Beebe (Screenplay)Joe Berlinger (Screenplay)
Musica: Marilyn Manson (Music)Carter Burwell (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: Nancy Schreiber (Director of Photography)

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Tres jóvenes se dirigen a los bosques de las Black Hills de Burkittsville, en Maryland, impulsados por el revuelo causado por la película "The Blair Witch Project". Dos de ellos, Stephen y Tristen, deben realizar investigaciones para un libro; con ellos está Kim, una atractiva joven dotada de poderes sensitivos, y Erika, una llamada "Wiccan", una especie de bruja moderna que no comparte el retrato que la película ha trazado de la categoría. Para acompañarlos está Jeff, un chico cuyo pasado ha estado marcado por desequilibrios psiquiátricos. El grupito acampa, equipado con cámaras, cerca de la casa abandonada donde se encontraron las cintas de video que documentaban las famosas desventuras de los protagonistas de la película anterior. Sigue una noche de bebida en el lugar siniestro. Por la mañana se despiertan sin siquiera recordar haber dormido y con todo su equipo destruido. El miedo los ataca también debido a extrañas y inquietantes alucinaciones de las que son víctimas. La situación se complica aún más cuando todos son acusados, por el sheriff de Burkittsville, del asesinato de otros cinco campistas llegados a las Black Hills con la misma curiosidad. Las modalidades de los aterradores asesinatos recuerdan los horribles actos de la bruja de Blair... Secuela del "fenómeno cinematográfico" de los últimos años, la película, cuya dirección está a cargo del documentalista consolidado Joe Berlinger, no es un verdadero sequel sino más bien una película sobre el fenómeno "Blair Witch". Partiendo de un breve documental sobre el impacto que "El misterio de la bruja de Blair" ha tenido en la ciudad de Burkettsville, la película continúa el juego mezclando realidad y ficción. Pero mientras que el primer episodio, gracias a las técnicas de filmación, mantenía al espectador en equilibrio entre la observación y la identificación, atrayéndolo a una dimensión donde el miedo explotaba en su forma más atávica, esta secuela nos devuelve al exterior y se convierte en un producto de terror ordinario, precisamente el género que las elecciones extremas de "The Blair Witch Project" habían señalado como saturado. Sin embargo, aunque mucho menos original que el primero (y no podía ser de otra manera), la película es un experimento exitoso y ciertamente superior a la media estándar de las secuelas. Además, tiene el indudable mérito de poder gustar tanto a los amantes de "The Blair Witch Project", porque de todas formas evoca su historia y atmósferas, como a quienes lo odiaron, porque tiene un estilo y una estructura mejor definidos, de "clásico" película de terror. Curiosidad: la banda sonora, que enriquece y completa las atmósferas de misterio y amenaza, es en gran parte firmada por Marilyn Manson, quien pidió la ayuda de otras estrellas de rock "malditas" como él, como Godhead, Rob Zombie y otros.
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4 /10

It really does seem as if maybe, at one point, in the days of yore, there was a really interesting psychological thriller at play, now buried deep within the layers of garbage that Blair Witch 2 ended up being. I mean, hey, props to you, Book of Shadows tried something totally different to the original. It's just a shame that it failed abysmally.

Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

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7 /10

Entertaining horror flick about a haunting witch that's been dead for over two centuries

Released in 2000 and directed by Joe Berlinger, "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" begins amidst the hysteria of the found-footage of the first film. People from around the world curious about the Blair witch phenomenon overrun Burkittsville, Maryland, wherein an entrepreneurial dude named Jeff (Jeffrey Donovan) leads a 'Blair Witch Hunt' tour involving four clients, a Wiccan, a Goth girl and an academic couple. After camping at the ruins of the home of an executed murderous hermit (who was evidently possessed by the spirit of the witch in the 1940s) the group has a rude awakening when they can't remember what happened the night before. They go to Jeff's nearby pad—a curious factory-turned-house—to review the video tapes for answers and discover something horribly macabre.

Atmospherically, "Book of Shadows" is quite effective as a haunting ghost/witch flick and the writing is actually smart—the entire play on hysteria, delusion & perception is quite clever. The screenplay was written by director Berlinger, who's best known for the great "Paradise Lost" trilogy of documentaries about the "West Memphis three," youthful outcasts accused of a hideous 1993 triple murder in Arkansas based on dubious evidence (and who were finally released in 2011). Anyway, "Book of Shadows" starts satirically and amusing, but gets increasing serious and sinister. The acting is good too, with Kim Director's powerhouse performance as the Goth girl standing out. Erica Leerhsen is also a highlight as the Wiccan babe with several alluring scenes, but they coulda done more with her.

The reason so many people call this flick "the worst movie ever made" (Why sure!) is obviously because it's a knee-jerk reaction to it being a sequel to the mega-popular "The Blair Witch Project" (1999), which was an altogether different kind of movie, being a found-footage flick, not to mention the herd-mentality of an over-critical feeding-frenzy. Since I'm not a fan of found-footage films—seeing as how they're about as entertaining as watching home movies for an hour and a half—I find "Book of Shadows" far more interesting than the first film.

There's a secret message in the movie that you can discover in (SPOILER ALERT): the FIRE, the GRASS, the factory WINDOW, the GRAVESTONE and the RUG, which all-together spells: "Seek me no further or...". This combined with reversing Tristen's backward words in the last act reveal the secret of 'ESREVER': "Seek me no further or... the children will again walk free," meaning: the Blair witch would loose the spirits of the murdered children to torment the invaders of her domain. (END SPOILER)

As for the complaints of there being no Book of Shadows, it's simply not true. The character Jeff is a movie enthusiast with ambitions of being a filmmaker and "Book of Shadows" is the name of one of the scripts he put together and intends to shoot. So it's not something totally out of nowhere that Artisan dubiously added to the title, as most people think. Yes, they added it, but it had relevance to the movie. Furthermore, the actual 'Book of Shadows' is a Wiccan spell book and is figuratively used in the movie in that the group obviously falls under the spell of the Blair Witch after entering her diabolical terrain.

The film features a creative score by Carter Burwell and a rockin' soundtrack with quality cuts by the likes of Marilyn Manson ("Disposable Teens"), Godhead ("The Reckoning") and many more.

After Berlinger finished his version of the movie the studio complained that there weren't enough conventional horror elements and so additional scenes were shot & edited into the picture. What else is new? It has been thus throughout cinematic history. For me, the added scenes beef-up what might've otherwise been too low-key for a horror flick. True, this route was taken with the first film, but "Book of Shadows" is the antithesis of that movie, and it's the better for it IMHO.

"Book of Shadows" is a dense horror flick and therefore worthy of repeat viewings for gems to mine. (One aid in helping to understand the picture is Jeff's statement at the camp: "Film lies; video tells the truth"). Unfortunately, this is evidently too much for some dullards. Yes, it's a slow-build with meandering aspects, but the movie's laden with subtext and the climax is pretty horrific, even while it's somewhat predictable. You never see the witch, but her nefarious presence is palpable nevertheless and the ambiance fittingly oozes Gothic. As for the doofuses who argue that the pic has too little to do with the first one, nothing could be further from the truth. Lastly, Jeff's factory-turned-house is almost iconic; a great location for a ghostly horror flick.

The film runs 90 minutes and was shot in Baltimore, Maryland.

GRADE: B

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