Book of Shadows does not make any sense. No, it's not that I'm so dumb I cannot understand it, it's actually that the film is so simple in it's conflictions that I am surprised everyone else hasn't seen right through it.
Showing slight promise in the early scenes where mockumentary seems to taken to a higher, more sophisticated level than the first, the film quickly collapses into stupidness after about 30 minutes of mildly effective mystery.
Basically, 5 idiots (one of them with a basketball sized goiter on his neck) try to figure out why the whole world went nuts over BWP back in 1999, rather than if the BW really exists or not. 2 of them are writing a book on mass hysteria, one is a tour guide with a dodgy (and totally unexplained) past, the other a witch, the other a Goth (?).
After spending the night in the ruins of Rustin Parr's house they awake to find their camera's destroyed and their paperwork shredded. Was it the Blair Witch? Hardly, she's not real. Right? Don't look at me for answers, the film doesn't contain any. In hoping that the audience would rather be confused than bored, any old crap is thrown at us to keep us in the dark.
The original film was excused for this. It was a low budget independent movie and NOT a Hollywood film. BW2 IS a Hollywood film and fails on every basic level. Even the tiny, tiny irony in being called Book of Shadows, I believe, is a fluke/coincidence. Any other attempt at irony is purely textbook. Ooohhh mass hysteria!
And if the Blair Witch ISN'T real (as this film repeatedly states) why are their physical impossibilities taking place? Why do they all go mad (mass hysteria my ass)? Why, if they are naked, do they conveniently have underwear on when it comes to frontal shots, but take them off for any other angle? What's the deal with tour guide dude's past?
It's all trash and all pointless. A cheap, quick cash-in and a total insult to the honesty and simplicity of the original.
I paid 36p for this!
The DVD is in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 5.1 with some rubbish extras.
Showing slight promise in the early scenes where mockumentary seems to taken to a higher, more sophisticated level than the first, the film quickly collapses into stupidness after about 30 minutes of mildly effective mystery.
Basically, 5 idiots (one of them with a basketball sized goiter on his neck) try to figure out why the whole world went nuts over BWP back in 1999, rather than if the BW really exists or not. 2 of them are writing a book on mass hysteria, one is a tour guide with a dodgy (and totally unexplained) past, the other a witch, the other a Goth (?).
After spending the night in the ruins of Rustin Parr's house they awake to find their camera's destroyed and their paperwork shredded. Was it the Blair Witch? Hardly, she's not real. Right? Don't look at me for answers, the film doesn't contain any. In hoping that the audience would rather be confused than bored, any old crap is thrown at us to keep us in the dark.
The original film was excused for this. It was a low budget independent movie and NOT a Hollywood film. BW2 IS a Hollywood film and fails on every basic level. Even the tiny, tiny irony in being called Book of Shadows, I believe, is a fluke/coincidence. Any other attempt at irony is purely textbook. Ooohhh mass hysteria!
And if the Blair Witch ISN'T real (as this film repeatedly states) why are their physical impossibilities taking place? Why do they all go mad (mass hysteria my ass)? Why, if they are naked, do they conveniently have underwear on when it comes to frontal shots, but take them off for any other angle? What's the deal with tour guide dude's past?
It's all trash and all pointless. A cheap, quick cash-in and a total insult to the honesty and simplicity of the original.
I paid 36p for this!
The DVD is in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 5.1 with some rubbish extras.