Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 2000

Critics score:
13 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Intelligent, inventive, worried and surprising. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The results should hold your interest, but they're hardly bewitching. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: For all its clever notions, Book of Shadows often seems more like a montage of pasted-together images than a coherent horror story. Read more

Toronto Star: Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Ambitious but lame. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A plausible premise, visual tricks and a little blood don't help this sequel to rise above largely formulaic territory. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Though BW2 eschews the first film's jumpy visuals, its erraticism as a narrative is even worse. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: The inevitable sequel, Blair Witch 2: Book Of Shadows is upon us. Woe betide us all. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: While Berlinger may indeed be a good documentarian, he seems woefully inept at coaching consistently professional-level performances from young actors in a fictional film. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The only thing vaguely demonic here is the ease with which a movie as scary and original as The Blair Witch Project can be downloaded into oblivion and compressed into this week's product. Read more

Globe and Mail: Read more

David Ansen, Newsweek: Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Book of Shadows isn't going to scare anyone except the bean counters at Artisan who are counting on a big financial return. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Not a very lucid piece of filmmaking. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A muddled if appealing failure. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: [The] tendency to cannibalize and sample from other horror flicks, made popular by the Scream series, is worse than dull. It's parasitic. Read more

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Dennis Harvey, Variety: Even formula-slasher-pic fans are likely to find this hectic, unfocused effort a letdown. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The execution isn't quite up to the movie's ambition. Read more