Thing 101: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Jun. 21st, 2011 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: Some fans of the original film visit Burkittsville, Maryland, to tour some of the sites and end up experiencing Terrible Things. Now, never mind that the film was actually shot closer to Germantown and that Burkittsville really isn’t that scary of a place (I’ve both snarfed and hiked there), this was a reasonably good horror film. Cheesy and ridiculous, mind, but not nearly as bad as I was expecting. The psychological thrills were fun and the ending pleasantly terrible. (Does that even make any sense? I don’t care.) Certainly not something I’d want to watch again and again, but it was a fine way to pass a couple of hours and I especially appreciated that I couldn’t predict all the plot twists. (The fact that I was only half paying attention while I was cleaning probably helped.) Definitely not the worst sequel I’ve ever seen - which is faint praise, to be sure, but better than what most people have to say about this film.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: Some fans of the original film visit Burkittsville, Maryland, to tour some of the sites and end up experiencing Terrible Things. Now, never mind that the film was actually shot closer to Germantown and that Burkittsville really isn’t that scary of a place (I’ve both snarfed and hiked there), this was a reasonably good horror film. Cheesy and ridiculous, mind, but not nearly as bad as I was expecting. The psychological thrills were fun and the ending pleasantly terrible. (Does that even make any sense? I don’t care.) Certainly not something I’d want to watch again and again, but it was a fine way to pass a couple of hours and I especially appreciated that I couldn’t predict all the plot twists. (The fact that I was only half paying attention while I was cleaning probably helped.) Definitely not the worst sequel I’ve ever seen - which is faint praise, to be sure, but better than what most people have to say about this film.
