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BLAIR WITCH 2: IL LIBRO SEGRETO DELLE STREGHE

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

2000 US HMDB
ottobre 27, 2000

Dopo il successo di The Blair Witch Project, Burkettsville e il bosco di Black Hill, luoghi d'ambientazione del film, sono diventati meta di pellegrinaggio da parte di curiosi e appassionati di stregoneria. Su questo reale dato di cronaca il regista Joe Berlinger, documentarista molto apprezzato, innesta la trama del nuovo film. Quattro escursionisti, Stephen, Tristen, Erica e Kim, guidati da Jeff, un giovane del luogo, decidono di passare la notte nel bosco per filmare fenomeni occulti. Dopo aver sistemato le telecamere e aver vegliato alcune ore, si addormentano. La mattina si accorgono che la loro attrezzatura è stata distrutta. Per capire cosa sia accaduto visionano i nastri registrati, ritrovati stranamente intatti. Scopriranno cose agghiaccianti e, in preda a visioni sinistre e allucinazioni, commetteranno azioni terribili.

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

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Marco Castellini
Tre giovani si recano nei boschi delle Black Hills di Burkittsville nel Maryland, spinti dal clamore suscitato dal film “The Blair Witch Project”. Due di loro, Stephen e Tristen, devono compiere delle ricerche per un libro; insieme a loro c’è Kim, un’avvenente ragazza dotata di poteri sensitivi ed Erika una cosidetta ‘Wiccan’, una sorta di strega moderna, che non condivide il ritratto che il film ha tracciato della categoria. Ad accompagnarli è Jeff, un ragazzo il cui passato è stato segnato da squilibri psichici. Il gruppetto si accampa, munito di telecamere, nei dintorni della casa diroccata dove furono ritrovate le videocassette che documentavano le celebri disavventure dei protagonisti del film precedente. Segue una notte di bevute nel luogo sinistro. La mattina si risvegliano non ricordandosi nemmeno di aver dormito e con tutta la loro attrezzatura distrutta. La paura li attanaglia anche a causa di strane ed inquietanti allucinazioni di cui sono vittime. La situazione si complica ulteriormente quando tutti vengono accusati, dallo sceriffo di Burkittsville, dell’uccisione di altri cinque campeggiatori giunti sulle Black Hills con la medesima curiosità. Le modalità dei raccapriccianti assassini ricalcano le orribili gesta della strega di Blair... Seguito del “caso cinematografico” degli ultimi anni, la pellicola, la cui regia è affidata all’affermato documentarista Joe Berlinger, non è un vero sequel ma piuttosto un film sul fenomeno “Blair Witch”. Partendo da un breve documentario sull’impatto che “Il mistero della strega di Blair” ha avuto sulla cittadina di Burkettsville, il film continua il gioco mischiando realtà e fiction. Ma mentre il primo episodio, per via delle tecniche di ripresa, teneva lo spettatore in bilico tra osservazione e immedesimazione, attirandolo in una dimensione dove la paura esplodeva nella sua forma più atavica. Questo sequel invece ci rispedisce all’esterno e diventa un ordinario prodotto horror, proprio il genere che le scelte estreme di “The Blair Witch Project” avevano additato come saturo. Comunque anche se decisamente meno originale del primo (e non poteva essere altrimenti) la pellicola risulta un esperimento riuscito e sicuramente superiore alla media standard dei sequel. Inoltre ha l’indubbio merito di poter piacere sia agli amanti di “The Blair Witch Project”, perché comunque ne richiama la storia e le atmosfere, sia a chi lo ha odiato, perché ha una stile e una struttura meglio delineata, da “classico” film dell’orrore Curiosità: la colonna sonora, che arricchisce e completa le atmosfere di mistero e minaccia, sono in gran parte firmate da Marylin Manson, che ha chiesto l'aiuto di altre rock star "maledette" come lui, quali Godhead, Rob Zombie e altri.
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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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Wuchak

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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