Marilyn Manson screams "We're disposable teens" as a helicopter shot flies above the woods. We intercut with really fake looking blood and guts scenes and weird BDSM inspired "auteur" style shots and... wait, hold on THIS is the sequel to The Blair Witch Project?
I had an inclination that I am willing to test, that this was a pre-existing script they doctored to quickly rush a sequel to Blair Witch into production and capitalize on the craze. I'm trying to load up Wikipedia to see. The fact is that this feels like it has all jack shit to do with the original movie, and they threw together some vague "horror movie", sewed in some dialogue about a Blair Witch, and then jammed this into theaters as fast as possible.
Book of Shadows starts with a group of 20-somethings, a group of terrible actors and terrible characters who are capitalizing on the success of The Blair Witch Project movie, leading a tour group in Maryland of various Witch related sites. They get wasted at a site, pass out, wake up with their site destroyed and video tapes left of the night happenings. They go home, review the tapes, and discover sinister images that emerge, pointing to various different things.
The tone is horrible. The everything is horrible? That's a yes. I don't know. There's so much to say negative about this. Let's try to say something positive. Um... it had nudity, once?
Book of Shadows feels like they took Blair Witch, ran it through a "2000's era film" filter, appealing it towards goths and subcultures and everything else, and then shit it out. The movie is bad, even by "2000's era film" standards. I give it a zero.
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