There is an event called
a Blair Witch Hunt tour lead by a man
from Burkittsville.
A group of college students at the Boston
College are fans of the original Blair
Witch movie decides to take the tour out
at the Black Hills of Burkittville,
Maryland to see if they find anything
unusual after the disappearance of those
3 students in 1994.
One of them owns a shack which is filled
with camera equipment in the woods. They
see hallucinations of ghosts and other
weird events.
Some of the students behave unusual and
something supernatural has come with them
which leads to numerous cases of murder
and insanity.
This sequel bombed
big time at the box office as well as to
the fans plus there was a prequel planned
but that was dropped due to the poor
ratings of this one.
You may call me kooky, but I really
enjoyed this film. It was campy fun.
I am extremely disappointed that the
prequel was dropped as I really wanted to
know the whole story behind Blair Witch.
I can understand why fans were upset with
this sequel though as it never had that
same effectiveness like the first one
did.
Yet the story doesn't explain itself too
well towards the end as you wonder if it
was ghosts doing these tricks on the
students or were they possessed and did
them but thinking they were inncocent
with the madness the were arrested for
doing at the end of the film.
The acting is not
too bad but nowhere as believeable like
in the first one.
I liked Kim Director's role as a
Wiccan who was heavily into the gothic
side of things as she makes a perfect
presence to her part.
Jeffrey
Donovan didn't seem to do much for
me as the head of the researchers
although he did seem okay as a typical
young adult trying to getting any info as
much as possible.
Stephen Barker Turner is perfect
with his serious and tense attitude
throughout the film and has the perfect
looks for the part to top it all off.
Erica Leerhsen shows her stuff well
as a peaceful lloking wiccan and then is
great with her twisted obsessions and
sleaziness too.
However supporting actor Lanny
Flaherty is a little too
melodramatic as the county sheriff which
kinda ruins the story a bit.
Erica Leerson
is nude often. One scene she dances
around outside in the woods.
Jeffrey Donovan is briefly nude as
well.
The gore is really
fast as there's stabbings and chest
slashings.
Also in the beginning a tube is shoved up
a students nose as they pour liquid in
it. Gross.
The directing by
Joe Berlinger is alot of fun too but
can't make the film as scary like the
mocumentary was.
There's some good camcorder takes on bit
part actors playing locals discussing the
3 students that disappeared as well as
interesting clips on news reporters too.
There's a scene that's very painful to
watch taking place in a psych ward with a
bit part actor Kevin Murray as a
doctor shoving a tube in Jeffrey
Donovan's nose. You're guaranteed to
cringe and look away.
We have good camera shots focusing on Donovan
sitting in a chair acting still with
supporting actor Lanny Flaherty
as the Sheriff
questioning him .
There's a nice opening shot with a camera
zooming over a bunch of autmn tree's in a
big forest.
There were great shots on Kim
Director doing her stuff at a
bonfire as well as Erica Leerhsen doing
her wiccan spells looking peaceful.
There's a nice hallucination sequence
between Leerhsen and Stephen
Barker Turner associating with one
another and then making out with each
other which looked quite natural and then
Leerhsen clawing him which makes
you wonder what the hell is going on
here.
Leerhsen
was great just losing it and then rocking
back and fourth bow legged doing a wiccan
chant over and over again.
There's a good shot on bit part actors Tyler Zeisloft,
Richard Kirkwood and Justin
Fair staring at the camera rolling
in and acting sleazy and mocking by a
corner store.
Director does well having an
attitude towards Kennen Sisco at
the store clerk when trying to pay for
her beer.
A nice shot on Leerhsen
acting sleazy half naked walking away
from the small bridge leading to the
shack.
A great reaction and shot on Turner grabbing
onto the bridge when it collapses with
him freaking out.
There's good camera shots on all the main
cast caught on camera doing some crazy
things by destroying their stuff at their
bonfire and doing chants etc.
Tristine Skylar is great by acting
possessed towards the rest by putting a
rope around her neck and behaving
wickedly towards them.
There are also nice scenes like Leerhsen
dancing around the forest caught on
camera.
Turner was great freaking out after
seeing the footage on tape of what
happened toward the end of the film along
with Diamond crying while
watching the footage of what she did both
of them denying they did what they saw
themselves do.
However, his directing doesn't meet up to
the original as it does look like a
cheaply directed sequel.
He has also directed the music
documentary Metallica: Some Kind
of Monster.
The music was composed by Carter
Burwell as he has some good thumping
and beating type sounds along with the
odd wind effects. There's also a list of
songtracks by gothic groups like Marilyn
Manson as you hear his number
"Disposable Teens during the opening
credits of the film which totally kicks
ass.
We also get "Lie Down" by P.O.D.
"Feel
Good Hit Of The Summer" by Queens
of the Stone Age
"The Reckoning" by Godhead
"Haunted" by Poe
"Arc Arsenal" by At
the Drive-In
"PS" by Project 86
"I'm a Doggy" by Marvin
Pontiac
"Streamlined" by Sunshine
"Old Enough" by Nickelback
"Mind" by System of a Down.
Jeff:
The gene pool is a little shallow here.
Dive in and you'll crack your skull open.
Stephen:
How many Heather Donahue's does it take
to screw in a light bulb? Just one!
Stephen:
How many Heather Donahues does it take to
screw in a light bulb?
Jeff: How many?
Stephen: [imitating Heather's
loud screaming from the first Blair Witch
movie] Just one! Just one of them!
Erica:
[Erica finds a cache of video cameras
at Jeff's house] I thought all your
cameras got trashed.
Jeff: Yeah, well, you can never
have too many.
Stephen: Uh, Jeff, I think we've
had enough videotaping for one weekend.
Erica: Yeah, dude. Tour's over.
Jeff: Well, maybe the tour's just
begun, Erica, because you're walking into
the official Blair store. Come on in,
everybody. This is where it all begins.
This is the epicenter of the Blair Witch
Hunt website. Uh, let's see now... I got
my sticks. You can touch these, they're
for the stick men. Don't touch those,
those are drying. What else?
Tristen: Jeff, did you collect
these all in the Black Hills?
Jeff: Yeah, every single twig.
Over here, we've got a rock formation.
Oh, my God, who made that? Oh, I did
earlier. Over here, we've got Parr ruins
foundation dirt. That's a big item. I
sell that. T-shirts, and sweatshirts and
hats.
[hands Tristen a hat]
Jeff: Here, Tristen, that's for
you. Gratis.
Tristen: I feel better.
Stephen:
There was a Safeway a while back...
Jeff: That was in Burkittsville. I
never shop in Burkittsville. I don't even
piss there.
Jeff:
We're all virgins on this tour bus!
Erica:
May I have permission to take this leaf?
Thank you!
Jeff:
Ladies and gentlemen, that there is a
naked woman!
Erica:
We brought something back with us...
Kim:
Look, either you ring this stuff up or I
call your manager.
Girl: I am the manager!
Kim: Really, Well PEGGY! Could you
tell the bitch, at the front register to
do her goddamn job!!
Kim:
I'm trying to find the energy...
Tristen: Of the grave?
Kim: To stand up. I'm exhausted,
I've been on the road for two days
straight.
Kim:
They never should've let you out. You're
a long way from sane.
Jeff
Donovan: You know, there's a lot of
nay Sayers who come and say nay.
Redneck:
Hey Elvira, I've got something you can
suck the blood outta.
Kim: Oh yeah? Whip it out.
Jeff:
If you don't believe in the Blair Witch,
then why the hell did you come along?
Kim: I thought the movie was cool.
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