Talk about The blair Witch 2

[revo204]

Hey everyone,

This post is very importent for me.
First of all I liked "Book of Shadows" more than the first Movie. Dont understand me wrong I love both Movies but I liked the second Movie more. Most people say that this Movie is sooo bad and has nochting to do with the first one! My opinion is that this is bullshit! That Movie has more to do with the first one than most people can imagine! But its hidden, so most people dont realize it. It shows a Group of young people who are obsessed with the Movie Blair Witch Project and they plan to visit the Black Hills.
They get lost in a "Fictional" <----- really fiction? ....World. Media has a big impack of the Movie. That Movie shows that when people really believe in something it become real - like a Placebo Effect. Tristan said something like that in the Movie at the Camp Fire scene.
Also there are many connections to other Movies like the dogs from The Omen or Erica dancing around the Tree from Evil Dead!

I could write a book about, how I love Book of Shadows. But let me explain my meaning on finctio thing in Line six! Of course I know that Blair Witch Project was only a Movie and the Story behind it is fiction, I askes Heather herself on a Horror Convention in Germany 2013 (=

BUT for me Blair Witch 2 has nothing to do with fiction! These are real people who are obssesd with the movie and they lost their reality completly with horrible consequences. Its shows in a exagerrated way, what is reality. Many many people visit the Black Hills from around the World! Many of them believed in Witchcraft and maybe they hold Rituals in the Woods, or on the Graveyard like in the beginning of Book of shadows. Who knew? But I am sure it happend. In the Movie the group kills the tourists the same way like the 7 Man on Coffin Rock. Now we assume it would really happend (God beware) it would be pure reality! And through the FACT that Burkittsville get visitors until that day - the Movie get turned into a real thing. Because of people like you guys in this Group and me!!! And that is AWSOME! It turnes Blair Witch into something thats more than a movie through the big culture of people who lived that. And thats the reason I liked BoS so much cause it shows a real situation away from the fiction in a exagerrated way of course. Its 100% sure for me I will visit Burkittsville one day! (=

We should make it in a group like in BoS!!!

Hope you guys understand me and dont think I am an Idiot! =p

Hope that someone will share their opinion to that!

Greetings Revo204 (=

[Tweek]

Welcome revo204.  Glad you are here.

There are those that liked BoS better than the original.  You're not alone with that.  There are aspects of it that I liked, but overall I don't think it works as a sequel.  It's as different from the first one as you can go.  I'm not convinced that was a good way to go with it.  Shadow of the Blair Witch was good.  Ben Rock worked on that.  I try not to bash BoS too much on here because I know here are those that like it.  But for me personally it is the lesser of the two films.  BW2 probably would have disappointed no matter how it was done.  How do you follow up TBWP correctly?  Beats me.

[revo204]

Hey Tweek,

thank you fro your request!
How I follow up to TBWP correctly, thats a good question. The Movie is really importent cause that Movie was the key into a whole new World for me. I really like the Movie and what I really like is, that you see nothing thats fiction or unreal. You dont see the witch that was something I really liked. No Horrormovie can be so hard than your imagine - and that is what the Movie makes so good. Its the atmosphere, the panic of Heather and co. That movie is like a Book without pictures, cause you can only imagine what really happend. Okay I hope that give you a clear view on my look on TBWP (= This Movie is like no other Movie.

Thanks again for reply! Greetings, revo204 !!

[twana]

15 years later and the movie still brings in new fans ..

[revo204]

Hey twana (=

Yes 15 years wow....
But I am not that new! I remember when I was 13 years old (now I am 21) I let me print the Stickman on a Shirt I bought only for that. Cause I was not able to bought anything on ebay or amazon in that age! So t least I am 8 years in it yyyeeeeyyy ^^

I still have the shirt. But now i would buy it on ebay for sure ^^ But wanted a Blair Witch shirt sooo much when I was in that age ^^ Now I have a very cool Blair Witch Book of Shadows shirt from ebay (=

Greetings, revo204

[bw.asylum]

Always been a fan BoS, never saw many flaws but I think that's simply because I viewed it as a spin-off rather than sequel. A friend seen it and hated it and she told me that I shouldn't go in expecting a perfect sequel. Guess that saved me. That aside, the Blair mythology, I think is just great to explore on in any format for me.

[Tweek]

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[lilymae325]

So I just had a new thought/theory pop into my head as I re-watched the original Blair Witch Project. I am wondering now if the witch 'warps' time, so there are actually multiple things going on at once. Or she simply traps the people in the woods. So that they cannot reach help, but still run into Rustin Parr's house.

One reason I am thinking about this is because in the BWP movie, at 1:12:18, you can hear a man call out 'somebody'. Now this could be a trick or some other unfortunate soul...but to me it kinda sounds like Jeff Patterson (Jeff Donovan). Earlier in the movie Heather and Josh talk about hearing a screaming baby while they ran through the darkness. So this could also be snips of time when Jeff kidnapped the baby and was running through the woods with her to Coffin Rock. Why he yelled for 'somebody' I don't know, since he was trying to hide from the cops. But I thought this was interesting.

Also I apologize for my rambling and grammar. It is super late and I am exhausted.

[BlackHillsHermit]

Oct 3, 2018 22:33:34 GMT -6 lilymae325 said:

So I just had a new thought/theory pop into my head as I re-watched the original Blair Witch Project. I am wondering now if the witch 'warps' time, so there are actually multiple things going on at once. Or she simply traps the people in the woods. So that they cannot reach help, but still run into Rustin Parr's house.

One reason I am thinking about this is because in the BWP movie, at 1:12:18, you can hear a man call out 'somebody'. Now this could be a trick or some other unfortunate soul...but to me it kinda sounds like Jeff Patterson (Jeff Donovan). Earlier in the movie Heather and Josh talk about hearing a screaming baby while they ran through the darkness. So this could also be snips of time when Jeff kidnapped the baby and was running through the woods with her to Coffin Rock. Why he yelled for 'somebody' I don't know, since he was trying to hide from the cops. But I thought this was interesting.

Also I apologize for my rambling and grammar. It is super late and I am exhausted.

Good theory, except instead of just warping time (as I believe BW16 clearly indicated it can with how Lane's character experienced time at a different level from everyone else), the evil would have to also warp space (or dimensions - your choice) since BoS treats TBWP as a movie more than an actual documentation of events from years before. The really interesting thing about that is that it seems to treat the Blair witch herself, and the subsequent events, as actually having happened. We have the Parr foundation, the Burkisville seven, so on and so forth, but it's clearly indicated that everyone knows the jig is up with Heather, Josh and Mike just being actors and TBWP just being a movie.

The writer in me finds a lot of holes in this theory though, namely that Jeff's reason for being commited was never touched upon in the movie and the kidnapping only came to light with the release of the TV mocumentary and D.A. Stern's book, and the fact that nobody from TBWP had any real creative input in BoS, so they never would have thought of foreshadowing Jeff in the first movie at all.

[brandedrick]

So I watched this film for the first time last week and thought "wow, its not as horrible as everyone says". I then got the DVD along with the "Blair Witch Experience" Box Set and was amazed at how executives robbed us of a much better movie that was described in the audio commentary. The version that we have now is very much a guilty pleasure. I think Im not all that "offended" by it is because it establishes it's not supposed to be canon to the original but be a story of people who take crap way too seriously to a point that they cant tell the difference between reality and fiction. I find it amazing how its pretty accurate to how people treat things of fiction. Just say 1 thing and they;ll want your head on a pole. Like take the Slenderman Stabbing from a while back as an example.

Its not a terrible film. Just a film that got ruined by higher ups for thinking the general audience would be too dumb to understand a straight forward story.

[ghostprints]

They weren't so obsessed they couldn't understand reality from fiction.

They were being haunted and manipulated into murderers.

[Tweek]

Somebody's been creeping around Jeff's place.  Don't touch the railing... it's pretty safe... you know...

[ghostprints]

Yep. He's at the back of that giant, single floor parking garage in Baltimore next to Druid Hill Park (745-acre park)

Good times. Awesome.

Jeff's interior was filmed on the upper balcony inside that building.
That bridge leads to the upper balcony.

[ghostprints]

This is outside Jeff's place.

The top half of the left window is Stephen and Tristen's bedroom. The top half of the window on the right is Jeff's living room window (that the owl flew through stupidly)

Those two doors exist in the film but can barely be seen. The small door on the left side of the living room window is the door with windows they look through when they see Erica swinging around a small tree outside.
... the small door on the right side of the living room window is barely visible in the film. But it's there.

And the shack built onto the back is Jeff's pot room where Stephen looked out the window and discovered the smashed van.