Review of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) by Paul P — 04 Jul 2008

A much different film than the first. It's less scary than it is disturbing and unsettling and its content and motivations behind them are chopped from a completely different block. This is psychological suspense. There's an intelligence at work here, a psychological breakdown on perception and how it may not always be what you perceive as reality. Its ending leaves you with more than one distinct feeling. Whether what happens is supernatural or not is up to the viewer to decide. What sounds like a terrible idea for a sequel is instead crafted shockingly well by director Joe Berlinger and it deserves to be taken as a separate entity from the first film. It requires an open mind and a mentality willing to treat it as something much more than a scare show.

This deserves much more thought and examination that most were willing to give it.