Blair Witch 2

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Movie
German title Blair Witch 2
Original title Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Blair Witch 2 Logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Joe Berlinger
script Joe Berlinger
Dick Beebe
production Bill Carraro
music Carter Burwell
Marilyn Manson
camera Nancy Schreiber
cut Sarah Flack
occupation
chronology

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Blair Witch Project

Blair Witch 2 or Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is a horror film from 2000 , which was made as a sequel to the hit movie Blair Witch Project . With Blair Witch a further continuation was created in 2016.

action

Following the success of the Blair Witch Project , thousands of tourists from around the world flock to the location of the film in Burkittsville , Maryland , to investigate the legend of Elly Kedward, the Witch of Blair.

The mentally unstable Jeff tries to profit from people's curiosity and offers a tour of the forest where the horrific murders that are attributed to the witch took place. His first customers are the couple Tristen and Stephen, who are researching a book, as well as the self-confessed witch Erica and the clairvoyant Kim.

The small group spends the night in the ruins of the house in which Rustin Parr is said to have murdered seven children 60 years ago on behalf of the Witch of Blair. The five of them get drunk and are only briefly interrupted by another group of tourists who are lured by Jeff to another crime scene, the Coffin Rock.

When Jeff's group wakes up the next morning, they all have a torn film and can't remember anything. Your belongings have been thoroughly ransacked, Tristen and Stephen's notes have been torn up, and Jeff's camera equipment has disappeared. At least you can still find the videos with the recordings you made last night.

Suddenly, she is six weeks pregnant and miscarries after dreaming shortly before that she was drowning her child in the river. The group drives to the hospital, where Tristen has a vision of a girl who was murdered by Rustin Parr at the time.

Jeff takes the group to his remote home to review the video footage and find out what happened last night. The five are tormented by increasingly terrible visions and slowly seem to be losing their minds. Above all, Tristen changes more and more and sees terrible images from the past through the eyes of Elly Kedward, the witch of Blair.

Tristen reports that 200 years ago Elly Kedward was tied to a tree, tortured by a group of children, and finally hanged.

In the meantime, Erica disappears without a trace and is found dead in the closet by Jeff a little later. Almost at the same time, the group learns that the other tourists they met in the forest the night before were murdered and gutted at Coffin Rock. Jeff and his people are considered the prime suspects.

When Jeff plays the video recordings backwards on Tristen's instruction, the group sees what really happened that night: led by Tristen, they celebrated a wild orgy and finally murdered and gutted the other tourists in a frenzy of blood.

When the other drama confronts her, she claims to be Elly Kedward and is hanged in front of the camera by Stephen, whom she provokes to the blood.

At the police station, however, the recording of Tristen's death shows something else: the video does not show any of Tristen's strange behavior or provocations, instead Stephen, Jeff and Kim appear as the insane murderers who also killed Erica.

criticism

Lexicon of the international film : “After the bogus documentary first part, which consisted of supposedly authentic video material, this sequel was staged like a conventional horror film, which is based on the same witch myth, but lacks any charm of the predecessor. As a mere genre product, only moderately exciting. "

Awards

In 2001 Blair Witch 2 received the ridiculous prize " Golden Raspberry " as the worst sequel. He was also nominated for the golden raspberry in the categories of worst film couple (optionally all actors), worst script (Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick, Dick Beebe and Joe Berlinger), worst director (Joe Berlinger), worst film.

Carter Burwell was nominated Soundtrack Composer of the Year by the World Soundtrack Academy for this film, Knights of Passion and Before Night Goes.

background

The first part, The Blair Witch Project , had been an overwhelming financial success (the film cost $ 60,000  and grossed over $ 248 million). The sequel could not build on this success, but played around $ 26 million in the USA again at a cost of $ 15 million.

Soundtrack

The composition of the soundtrack was handed over to Marilyn Manson in order to underlay the mixture of thriller and horror film, which walks the fine line between reality and fiction, with the appropriate music . He contributed his previously unreleased Suicide Is Painless . Manson included both leading representatives of hard guitar rock and representatives of the progressive electronic sound.

The soundtrack includes:

  1. Godhead - "The Reckoning"
  2. POD - "Lie Down"
  3. Tony Iommi & Dave Grohl - "Goodbye Lament"
  4. Rob Zombie - "Dragula"
  5. System of a Down - "Mind"
  6. Slaves on Dope - "Stick It Up"
  7. Marilyn Manson - "Suicide Is Painless"
  8. Death in Vegas - "Soul Auctioner"
  9. Project 86 - "PS"
  10. Nickelback - "Old Enough"
  11. UPO - "Feel Alive"
  12. Steaknife - "Tommy Don't Die"
  13. At the Drive-In - "Arc Arsenal"
  14. Elastica - "Human"
  15. Queens of the Stone Age - "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer"

book

As in the first part, the author DA Stern wrote the book for the film, consisting of various acts on the individual protagonists. The book Blair Witch 2 was published in the US under the title Blair Witch: Book of Shadows in 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Blair Witch 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2007 (PDF; test number: 86 221 DVD).
  2. ↑ The Blair Witch Project on boxofficemojo.com (accessed March 1, 2008)