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Either way, this version ends up with bad writing choices dominating everything. Maybe one day we’ll get a version that shows us what Berlinger originally wanted, which would be nice. So part of this isn’t totally Berlinger’s doing, regardless of his co-writing the script. And I do know that, against his will, the studio shot some scenes to make this more a straight-forward horror, whatever the hell that means. Too bad because, as I mentioned, the concepts alive in the script die on the vine instead of blooming to make the sequel a worthy successor.
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This screenplay is chock full of garbage writing glaring omission, poor and unbelievably character decisions, amongst more mistakes. I love the genre, though I know sometimes the writing isn’t perfect, even in movies I actually enjoy. I mean, I can forgive a lot of stupid stuff screenplay-wise in horror. When they’re rationally trying to figure out what’s gone on, they never once question WHY AND HOW THE HELL IS THE PAPER SNOWING DOWN ON US? It’s clearly dropping out of the sky, and they don’t make one reference to maybe looking in the trees to see if anyone is playing tricks on them, et cetera. I never judge people TOO much on the decisions they make because they don’t know they’re in a horror movie. One scene that particularly pisses me off is when the group first wake up to find all the paper essentially snowing down on them. These gnarly moments are few and far between. It’s jarring because we enter the dream seamless, no indication, and then a nice smash cut out of this nightmarish image to see her lying in a tent. An early dream sees one of the women having a dream about drowning her unborn baby in a river, blood bubbling up from the water. There are a few genuinely unsettling images, I must admit. Somehow he stumbled, fumbling just about every last drop of potential.
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Beyond that Berlinger tried doing something that would’ve otherwise been good. If only the screenplay were tighter, the acting better, and most of all: if only it were found footage. The dialogue is brutal, to the point of cringing in many a scene, then it gets far too expository to take seriously. Plain and simple, this falls well short of being a good movie. It didn’t come too quickly after the original, that isn’t the reason this did poorly. Although definitely, at least partly what Beebe and Berlinger tried to get across. You can watch this as a biting, murderous, supernatural satire re: diehard fans of the first film. So much of it doesn’t, and falls into cheese not even the good kind. Parts of what I feel Berlinger aimed at work. But whereas other cult films feel justified in their love, often due to the project released at the wrong moment in time, Book of Shadows stinks not only of a cash grab, it’s also one majorly wasted opportunity.
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I’m sure that even this movie has its fans, a cult following. With the screenplay from him and co-writer Dick Beebe, I imagined Berlinger could spin his documentary style into an interesting sequel for the story Myrick and Sánchez began. By this point in 2000 he already did two of the HBO Paradise Lost documentaries, another great (and equally as tragic) doc called Brother’s Keeper. You’d almost expect Joe Berlinger to have done more with the concept for this sequel to Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick’s groundbreaking horror, The Blair Witch Project. Starring Jeffrey Donovan, Tristine Skyler, Erica Leerhsen, Kim Director, Lanny Flaherty, Lauren Husley, & Raynor Scheine.