A group of tourists arrives in Burkittsville, Maryland after seeing The Blair Witch Project (1999) to explore the mythology and phenomenon, only to come face to face with their own neuroses ... Read allA group of tourists arrives in Burkittsville, Maryland after seeing The Blair Witch Project (1999) to explore the mythology and phenomenon, only to come face to face with their own neuroses and possibly the witch herself.A group of tourists arrives in Burkittsville, Maryland after seeing The Blair Witch Project (1999) to explore the mythology and phenomenon, only to come face to face with their own neuroses and possibly the witch herself.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 11 nominations
- Burkittsville Resident #1
- (as Bruce Reed)
- Tristen
- (as Tristen Skyler)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaUnhappy with Joe Berlinger's version of the film, Artisan opted to re-shoot certain scenes to add more "traditional" horror movie elements and re-cut the movie to make it more commercial. Berlinger repeatedly states on the DVD commentary that he doesn't like the changes that were made and that they ruin the ambiguous tone of the plot.
- Goofs(at around 1h 12 mins) When they're watching the tapes backwards, they see Tristen hiding the tapes under some rocks (where they found them). The tape they're watching is one of the tapes they found, but when she hid them, she was being recorded on that tape.
- Quotes
Sheriff Cravens: [angrily] Wipe that shit off your face! You think that your makeup and black clothes give you POWER... but you're just a scared, cowardly, little girl underneath all that.
- Crazy creditsPart of the end credits roll over some shaky camera work in the woods, put there to appease fans of the first film.
- SoundtracksDisposable Teens
Written by Marilyn Manson, Jeordie White (as Twiggy Ramirez) and John 5 (as John Five)
Performed by Marilyn Manson
Published by Chrysalis Music/GTR Hack Music, EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Songs of Golgotha and Blood Heavy Music
From the album "Holy Wood"
Courtesy of Nothing Records Limited, Inc.
I definitely think this is an unfairly maligned film and don't quite understand the hate or the 4.0 imdb user rating.
Don't get me wrong, it's far from a masterpiece, but at least Book of Shadows tried to do something different with the Blair Witch lore. A solid attempt was made to preserve and integrate all the faux "history" into the story. Yes, there are plot holes, and some ridiculous scenes, but overall the cast and acting are above average for a horror film, and I thought it did adequately carry a fair bit of suspense throughout.
Having seen both recently, I think Book of Shadows is a far superior film to 2016's "Blair Witch", which I thought was a pretty shallow rehash of the original with no original ideas or even the most minimal attempt to expand upon the given mythology.
- badscene
- Jun 28, 2019
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,437,094
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $13,223,887
- Oct 29, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $47,737,094
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1