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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Artisan Entertainment
MPAA RATING: R for violence, language, sexuality and drug use
Starring
Kim Director,
Jeffrey Donovan,
Erica Leerhsen,
Tristine Skyler,
and
Stephen Barker Turner
Students at a Boston college become fasinated by the missing filmmakers, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened. They pitch a tent for the night and terrifying things start to happen. When they try to escape the woods, they realize something is following behind them.
| GENRE(S): |
Horror
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Joe Berlinger
Dick Beebe
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Joe Berlinger
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 13, 2001
Video: February 20, 2001
Theatrical: October 27, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
There are moments of pleasure, humor and, yes, terror to be had here all the same.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Has the incoherent look of a movie thrown together by a committee whose members weren't on the same page.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's a muddled, sometimes-atmospheric effort.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Gets credit for avoiding the easy path. Too bad the path it chooses doesn't lead us anywhere we want to be taken.
42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A flat, heebie jeebies thriller.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It never actually coalesces into a movie.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
A clever if muddled collection of riffs on the "Blair Witch" juggernaut, dressed up with intellectual pretensions by Joe Berlinger, who directed this film with a chortling zest.

40
TNT RoughCut
Andy Klein
There are lots of elements that make no sense whatever.
38
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Berlinger has approached Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 with intelligence and even a bit of thematic heft. But, frankly, the cheap thrill is gone.
38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The assault is against our ears, as the soundtrack pours forth a stream of thrash and Goth music.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The characters are boring, the violence generic, the suspense nonexistent.

38
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Can't scare up a decent plot.

30
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
While not entirely successful, at least deserves points for creativity.

25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Downright awful.

25
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Resembles an old Nine Inch Nails video. Missing from the mix are any characters with whom you'd want to spend one minute around a campfire.
25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
If you're going to direct a piece of crass, nonsensical junk, at least have the decency to release it straight to video, where it belongs.
20
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
While the first movie steadily tighened its vise, the second loosens its grip through strained acting and incoherent plotting.
20
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
A peerless indignity, a club-footed vomit launch of teen-horror clichés, overproduced self-importance, and scareless gore.
20
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
We're only a little spooked, only a little amused and, by extension, only a little entertained.

16
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It doesn't have the imagination or daring to make a full turn to self-parody.

12
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Cult shocker has been turned into throwaway megaplex fodder.
10
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
A straight exploitation story.

10
Slate
David Edelstein
Lordy, what a stinker.

10
Time
Richard Corliss
Few movies have spread their fibs or facts as clumsily as this one. There's not an emotionally plausible moment in the picture.
10
Film.com
Sean Means
Admirers of "The Blair Witch Project" are going to be left high and dry.

10
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
There's nothing scarier than a group of hormone-crazed 20-somethings, but this sequel isn't much more than a footnote of a footnote.

10
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Disappointing in every aspect.

10
Film.com
Robert Horton
It's just another bad horror film with inadequate young actors chased around a big house by something.

10
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Filled with all manner of tawdry tricks.

0
Newsweek
David Ansen
If you harbor any fond feelings for the original, stay far away from this mess.
0
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Worse than dull. It's parasitic.

0
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
A schizoid monster slapped together by uneasy bedfellows.

0
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Doomed to be inconsequential and forgettable.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Guaranteed to inspire many more belly laughs than it does actual shivers. Boo, scary? I think not.


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