{"id":2271,"date":"2001-08-25T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2001-08-25T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2016-07-24T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T18:17:21","slug":"book-of-shadows-blair-witch-2-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2001\/08\/25\/book-of-shadows-blair-witch-2-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The good thing about \u201cBlair Witch 2\u201d is that it\u2019s a head trip and major mind fuck that explores the ideas about fandom and how sometimes the ideas of fiction and reality can be blurred. The plus sides to this are the disturbing turns at violence that help accentuate the lengths some of the entities go through to instill a sense of reality, and while it doesn\u2019t rear its ugly head until the shocking end, it leaves a very fine mark. True, this is not as innovative or awe inspiring as the original, but it at least aims for different and something that pays tribute to the first film more than anything.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an official sequel per se, presenting a meta-narrative where \u201cThe Blair Witch Project\u201d was just a movie and popular. The people we see are in our reality. The whole reason why the kids go into the woods is because of the first one because they loved the movie so much. It provides a lot of memorable twists and turns at once. This movie illustrates the often blurry and always terrifying line between truth and fiction. That said, it isn\u2019t a perfect movie folks. The acting is rocky and the characters are pretty uninteresting and one note. The dialogue is atrocious at times; there were terrible lines spouted out one after another and it was distracting.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlair Witch 2\u201d is very beautifully directed, and conveys a unique Gothic tone in keeping with Eduardo Sanchez\u2019s original horror film, and adding to the mythos of the Blair Witch. Joe Berlinger gives his film a very nightmarish feel and makes every element and plot twist feel like a fever dream where we and the characters are going mad. While the suspense is nil in the first half, the build up works very well and pay off is still quite great. I was initially left my jaw hanging down and just wanted to see much more about what unfolded, and if anything in the movie had a sense of rationality, since it blurs reality and eventually even universes as a whole.<\/p>\n

Though I felt this would\u2019ve benefitted with a better cast of performers, and a much better screenwriter, I got a real kick out of \u201cBook of Shadows,\u201d and think of it as a neat sequel that works in the way \u201cSeason of the Witch\u201d did for \u201cHalloween\u201d as a tale from this mythology and not a direct follow up.<\/p>\n

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The good thing about \u201cBlair Witch 2\u201d is that it\u2019s a head trip and major mind fuck that explores the ideas about fandom and how sometimes the ideas of fiction and reality can be blurred. The plus sides to this are the disturbing turns at violence that help accentuate the lengths some of the entities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[120,302,409,477,703,922,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-b","tag-drama","tag-ghosts","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-sequel","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21576,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/21576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}