“The studio had a certain point of view, and I did it.” The gory scenes were shot five weeks before the film’s wide release.Ħ. He also notes that in his original screenplay there is no gore at all.
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“I believe that the gore in the movie fights with the ambiguity that I purposefully tried to nurture, but that’s life in studio filmmaking,” he says. The shots of gore interspersed throughout the opening credits were a studio addition. “This aerial comes straight out of Paradise Lost,” says Berlinger over Book of Shadows’ opening credits, a shot of woods with Marilyn Manson blasting “Disposable Teens.” He does note later his original choice was Frank Sinatra’s “Witchcraft.”ĥ. Berlinger also notes this was one of the many scenes Artisan forced in after he had turned in his initial cut.Ĥ. The force-feeding scene early in the film was Berlinger’s homage to Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies, a documentary film about inmates in a mental institution. Most of the people in Burkittsville disapproved of the sequel and, as Berlinger says, “chased them out of town.” The documentary footage at the beginning of the film was pieced together from the small handful of residents who would actually talk to them.ģ. He felt this put the audience in the same territory as the characters.Ģ. The director wanted to make it very clear that the first movie was a work of fiction that caused mass hysteria and that this was a film about people caught up in that hysteria. To start, Berlinger did not agree with the title card that starts the film stating it is a “fictionalized re-enactment of events that occurred after the release of The Blair Witch Project.” This was a studio decision. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)Ĭommentators: Joe Berlinger (co-writer/director), lots of blurring the lines between fiction and realityġ.
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So sit back, crack open a Pete’s Wicked Ale, and blast that Godhead, because we’re all virgins on this bus! Yeah, I’m one of the people who actually digs this movie. The result is an honest look at what happens when a director and a studio have two very different visions. To Artisan’s or whoever’s credit, Berlinger was given the keys to a commentary on the DVD, which is what we’re digging into this week.
Book of Shadows was taken out of his hands, and Artisan, wanting another horror hit on their slate, opted for re-shoots and re-cuts to make the film more traditionally scary. What’s more, this wacky horror sequel was also directed by documentarian Joe Berlinger, most famous for the Paradise Lost trilogy. Book of Shadows, if for nothing else, takes an interesting path for a franchise that could just have as easily turned down Straight-To-DVD-Rehash Boulevard, but it tried something a little different, putting the character in a world where The Blair Witch Project actually exists. But, love it – and some do really enjoy this film – or hate it, Blair Witch 2 was a controversial sequel to a film that already sparked enough controversy on its own. No, The Blair Witch Project didn’t need a sequel, and no, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2is not the sequel that modern horror classic from 1999 deserved.
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