• Blair Witch Project

Running time 90 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $15 million Box office $47.7 million Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (also known as Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows) is a 2000 American film, directed and co-written by and starring, and. The film was immediately greenlit upon pitch due to the surprising success of its predecessor, the wildly successful 1999 film. Stylistically different from the first film, the story revolves around a group of people fascinated by the mythology surrounding The Blair Witch Project film. They go into the where the original film was shot, and the new film documents their subsequent psychological unraveling. Originally conceived as a psychological thriller and meditation on, re-cut Berlinger's original film, altering the soundtrack as well as making editing changes and adding additional footage. The film was released in theaters in North America on October 27, 2000 to largely negative reviews from critics and audiences; it was, however, a financial success, grossing $47 million worldwide against its $15 million budget.

Contents. Plot The film begins with Jeff Patterson, a patient at a mental hospital in Maryland, receiving drugs through a. Moments later, he is in a padded room with a straitjacket on, throwing his body against the padded walls. The film cuts to November 1999, when a group of young tourists—Stephen and his pregnant girlfriend, Tristen, who are researching the Blair Witch for a book they are writing; Erica, a; and Kim, a psychic—arrive in, after seeing. Jeff, who is a local resident, is their tour guide and a paranormal investigator who says his equipment will capture any supernatural events that happen while they visit the Blair Witch site. They camp for the night in the burned ruins of 's house and Jeff places cameras around to capture evidence of the Blair Witch.

Jeff is derailed when the group asks him about an old tree that is located within the ruins, which he claims was never there before. Nobody seems to believe Jeff except for Kim. As the group gets drunk on alcohol and high from smoking marijuana around a campfire, another tour group arrives and claims to have jurisdiction over the ruins.

Jeff and his group lie to the other tour group to convince the others that they saw something horrifying at Coffin Rock earlier. Believing the lie, the other group leaves to investigate.

Jeff and his group continue to party into the night becoming increasingly more intoxicated. They wake the next morning with no memory of the previous night.

Tristen and Stephen's research documents are shredded and strewn about, and Jeff's cameras are destroyed. Tristen and Stephen are distraught as their work has been lost. Kim expresses a psychic sense that Jeff's tapes are still intact. She points to the spot where they are buried, and the tapes are found unharmed in the same spot the Blair Witch Project footage was discovered. Tristen is visibly uncomfortable and then the group notices that she is bleeding and has. Each member of the group starts to have flashbacks of being interrogated by Sherriff Cravens. The group goes to the Burkittsville hospital, where Tristen's miscarriage is confirmed.

As she is about to be discharged, Tristen sees a pale young girl walking away backward. Jeff takes the group back to his home, an abandoned broom factory against a steep hill in the woods.

It has an elaborate security system of surveillance cameras, and a front door alarm of barking dogs. Tristen goes to rest and she expresses that she is having perceptual disturbances, which she believes is related to the Blair Witch. That evening, the group reviews Jeff's tapes and find hours of footage to be missing. They notice that the tree is mysteriously missing from the video footage, and in its place is a young sapling tree. They notice an image that flashes onto the screen, and see that it is a naked woman swinging backward around the tree. Stephen notices that Kim has some kind of irritation on her shoulder, which Kim dismisses as chafing. Erica goes to the kitchen to check for beer and coffee.

She and Stephen then hallucinate that they were making out with each other. As Erica unbuttons Stephen's shirt, she notices strange markings on his body. Erica remarks that she has them too and then viciously scratches Stephen, after which she and Stephen realize that they are hallucinating. Meanwhile, Kim and Jeff have been slowing down the footage. They call up Stephen and Erica to see what they have found in the footage, which reveals that the naked woman is Erica. The group insinuates that Erica knows more and they begin to question her. Erica remembers no such event and runs off to pray, weeping as she does so.

Kim tries to console a hysterical Erica, who reveals the markings on her body and exclaims that it is a sign they have all been marked by the witch to die. Kim borrows Jeff's van to drive into town to pick up coffee and alcohol. While at the store, she is catcalled by local boys and then gets into a heated argument with the convenience store cashier. The van she drives is attacked by locals as Kim leaves, and she crashes the vehicle into a telephone pole after swerving to avoid hitting ghostly children walking along the road. Back at Jeff's, she reaches into her shopping bag and pricks herself on a small, bloody nail file stuck among the bottles of beer she purchased.

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Kim apologizes to Jeff, who she hallucinates as Rustin Parr in the electric chair. The three tourists decide to leave the next morning. Tristen has become increasingly more mentally unhinged and delusional about the Blair Witch, and she comments about the strange markings on their bodies. Jeff discovers his van is wrecked, but Kim says she had only dented the fender. Erica mysteriously disappears and they all go to look for her. Kim discovers Erica's clothes, surrounded by a circle of lit candles.

They attempt to call Erica's father at his office but are told by his secretary that he has no children. The county sheriff calls to Jeff and asks him to turn on the TV to see the news, and to inform that the other tour group was found disemboweled on Coffin Rock.

He demands that Jeff reveals whatever he knows about the crime, but Jeff denies any involvement and hangs up. Jeff becomes agitated and shouts to the group that nobody can leave because he will not be blamed for the murders of the tourists. Tristen (whose mental health is rapidly deteriorating) suddenly claims she can see Erica through a window, naked and swinging around a tree. Stephen runs outside to confront Erica, but the walkway connecting the building to the hill collapses under him when he does so. As he climbs to safety, Stephen sees the same girl Tristen did in the hospital. He calls for Tristen to help him but she walks away without any regard. Tristen becomes even more disorganized with her behavior and expresses a belief that she is going crazy.

While Kim asks for a phone book to call a doctor for Tristen, Kim finds a set of surveillance dossiers on the group. Kim accuses Jeff of spying on them but he denies it. As they argue, the sheriff calls again and states he is at Jeff's front door. The security monitor shows the bridge is now intact. Jeff hears the sheriff shouting at the door, goes downstairs and opens the door, but the bridge has returned to its damaged state and the sheriff is nowhere to be seen but he finds that dogs are barking at the other side. Jeff runs to his closet to get a gun, but the dogs have disappeared when he opens the door again in preparation to shoot them.

Stephen, Kim, and Tristen arrive as Jeff opens the closet to put the gun away, and all three discover Erica's corpse in the closet. Tristen, in a hallucinatory state, chants about “ reversing the evil”, speaking backwards and remarking about the backwards theme in their hallucinations. This leads Kim to suggest they play Jeff's damaged tapes in reverse. The footage now shows the group descending into a frenzy with Tristen leading the group in satanic worship and a drunken orgy, destruction of Jeff's cameras and Tristen and Stephen's research, followed by a subsequent of the other tour group and footage of Tristen hiding the video tapes. The group begins to confront Tristen and blames her for making them engage in their debauchery. Jeff begins taping Tristen as the group demands that she confess to killing Erica.

Tristen initially denies and cries but then seems to turn to an alter ego of the Blair Witch. She sneers at the others chiding them and alternately asking them for help while luring them to the second floor. Stephen accuses Tristen of deliberately killing their baby.

Tristen ties a rope around her own neck, threatening to kill herself. Stephen pushes her over the second-floor banister in a moment of rage and causes her to hang herself.

As Tristen's body is hanging, the scene is intercut with images of the tourists being murdered After a, the audience sees that Jeff, Stephen, and Kim have been arrested. They report to the police that Tristen was possessed and committed the crimes. Each is interrogated separately, with the police showing each person footage of their crimes. Security camera footage shows Kim killing the store cashier by stabbing the cashier in the neck with their own nail file.

Surveillance camera footage shows a naked Jeff arranging Erica's clothes, and putting her dead body in the closet. Jeff's video shows the group interrogating Tristen, accusing her of being a witch, and Stephen pushing her over the banister (but not Tristen putting the rope around her own neck). All three, close to a, vehemently deny doing any of those things and they insist that the footage is not how the events happened.

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