Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is a Mess - Talking About Tapes

Tony, Trisha, and Joe from ‪@MovieDumpster‬ get together to talk about the much reviled sequel to The Blair Witch Project, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. In this movie review/podcast they will talk about all the reasons this movie is a mess. From the subpar acting, the studio interference, and the fact there is no book of shadows anywhere to be seen.
As it follows the twisted path traveled by five people fixated on "The Blair Witch Project," "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" journeys into a dark and dangerous place where the line between truth and fiction blurs and perhaps vanishes altogether. Individual perception grows increasingly untrustworthy as the film's protagonists find themselves caught in a vortex of unspeakable evil, the origins of which -- human or supernatural -- remain chillingly uncertain.
Edited by Jessica Hickson.
Thanks to ‪@GoodBadFlicks‬ for giving me a bunch of info about this movie.
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[@HackTheMovies]

Check out our full Talking About Tapes Playlist kzbin.info/aero/PLT83ftFrCsQTC9iJyxul1XFJWb1nR6Zf6

[@wstine79]

This movie was a riot to watch through back in the day. It felt more like a bad fan fiction for The Blair Witch Project.

[@jimbowlan5804]

A lot of that movie is studio interference

[@jimbowlan5804]

True the alien and predator franchises after the first 2

[@bretttheillustrator]

Joe = excellent guest, Trish = excellent guest, Tony = great host

[@RevanMartinez]

I always imagined the goth witch in this being friends with the three Witches from The Craft

[@Krooksbane]

They clearly would have hung out together

[@worldserpent731]

There's only 1 Gothic Bad Boy Stud and that's Gothic King Cobra TWU

[@nerology32]

@@worldserpent731 TWU

[@van8ryan]

25:02---The house was actually still standing around the time BLAIR WITCH 2 was in theaters because the county was at a standstill, debating whether to tear it down or preserve it as a historical site. However, in 2004, a storm with hurricane-force winds came through the area and partially demolished the house, so the city eventually just finished the job soon after.

[@IWasLikeEmilio]

Seek me no further or the children will again walk free.

[@roadrunnermjp]

I’ll watch anything with Trish in it.

[@RyanAllenLocke]

I second that 🙋‍♂️

[@dewinter1411]

Yep. She’s so smart and witty. Seems like a genuinely fun person.

[@Haddonfieldhigh]

save me a seat at that table.

[@EirkenElite]

Tell me your lonely with saying your lonely

[@JTSDAD67]

A perfect woman doesn't exi...

[@guysplace5385]

Tony's pseudo Italian is so awesome, wish there were more episodes with Trisha

[@jond5830]

The electric chair bit was actually the Goth chic having a future premonition of what's-his-name's ultimate fate after the movie's story. The cast is found guilty on the charges and they're sentenced to execution via the electric chair.

[@trishasitaly]

Ohh! That makes sense

[@lindyxyo4254]

Yeah that's how I always read it as well.

[@nightstrike90]

I thought she was seeing Rustin Parr's execution. They mentioned in the documentary that he was sentenced to the electric chair

[@collecticus]

I thought that was Rustin Parr.

[@thedeepstriker]

Someone on TV tropes said the sheriff was one "I hates that rabbit!" away from being Yosemite Sam.

[@TrainerCTZ]

You go straight to the hospital when you have a miscarriage and have a surgeon remove a decaying life from your body IMMEDIATELY unless you want to die from brutal infection.

[@johnnyblu84]

with Joe and Trisha it is already a A+++ video!!!

[@Z_O_DBL_G]

Charlie Sheen is a real life friggin Warlock you dont hear any complaints from him! Anyway would love to see a 12 Monkeys 1995 review.

[@shayZero]

12 Monkeys YES! That review would be ace

[@Samsquamsh]

12 monkeys please HTM! Perfect idea by OP. Give this OG a shout out.

[@JoshuaWilkesR]

That sure is a nice alien 3 poster

[@jacksonscott690]

I’m so glad Joe suggested doing a Giallo. Bird with the Crystal Plumage and The Fifth Chord are in my top 10 favorite Giallos.

[@anthonyolvera5916]

The Goth girl was psychic basically a witch and the two other girl's were into witch Craft when the wiccan girl does the tarot cards she sees her faith and gets really upset and does it again and keeps getting the same result I thought it was a good movie

[@theodorewilliams9307]

The same guy that bought the signed copy of Ghostbusters 2016 is the same guy that's gonna print out Tony's head at WrestleMania this year.

[@maximusprime3459]

Blair Witch 2 isnt a good sequel to The Blair Witch Project, but on its own its a reasonable time waster horror film.

[@jasong8085]

Bruce Willis was dead the whole time

[@trishasitaly]

I can’t believe I just read the spoiler for diehard

[@scottp.548]

@@trishasitaly Wait until Diehard 2...

[@kidcrossfire3489]

@@scottp.548 By the fourth one, you can see that he’s pretty dead on the inside.

[@jasong8085]

I was talking about all his recent low budget movies

[@homelee665]

My dorm roommate Freshman year of college had loved the original Blair Witch, and convinced me to spend "new rental" money at Blockbuster to rent Book of Shadows. When the movie was over, his words were, "What the fuck did we just watch?" He the apologized to me for renting it.

[@TastySnackies]

Episodes with Trisha and Tony are palate cleaners in between the other episodes where Tony gets endlessly reamed on.

[@kristennelson3190]

Joe's "you can hardly see 'dem nipples!" - loooove the Scrooged reference!

[@robart1979]

I actually wanna see a release of the director's cut of this film..please be nice, Berlinger is a good director

[@jimbowlan5804]

His version would be great as it would be like a documentary style what he had done many times half the damn film is all studio interference

[@kidcrossfire3489]

His documentary stuff is great, but his feature films (I think this was only one of MAYBE two or three?) are pretty weak. They mention his Ted Bundy Zac Efron Netflix movie in the episode. It’s pretty bland.

[@DavidKen878]

There's a fan made version of it online. It puts the scenes in the order he wrote them, cuts the tourist group plot from the movie, adds the Frank Sinatra opening song back in, and other things according to how he originally wanted it. It's way better.

[@jimbowlan5804]

I’ll have to look for it

[@markula_4040]

Nice shout out to Good Bad Flicks. It's a good channel that people should check out if they are not familiar with it.

[@jimbowlan5804]

He did a retrospective on the first 2

[@iammatthart]

1. Loved this. 2. 2016 BW is fun. 3. The 3 Blair Witch games for PC......the first one is spectacular. You play as the doc from the Nocturne PC game which focuses on an investigative team in the universe of Bloodrayne before Bloodrayne got "huge." It's the only playable one of all the three games because they all use tank controls and horrible camera angles. You're blowing away giant evil stick creatures and investigating coffin rock over and over in the other 2, but the first game, Tony, is absolutely awesome.

[@theredscum4202]

You guys should do the Descent

[@TheDolphinlover4ever]

You give me a reason to live tony keep up the great work

[@John.Kramer]

let's go! I agree

[@JoshuaWilkesR]

Now we need a hack the movies good bad flicks crossover

[@robart1979]

Even though your guest recommended it, the 2016 Blair Witch sucks.. chock full of silly jump scares for clueless teenagers. Please do that one sometime and bring back this dude to explain why he likes it..I can't wait! BTW, the first BW game is great to me, based on the nocturne engine. the other 2 are fairly lackluster but the 1st one deserves a remake IMHO, ok I'll shut up now..

[@MovieDumpster]

I’d love to talk about why 2016 is a better movie than this one, but no matter what I say it wouldn’t change your mind it seems. -Joe

[@robart1979]

@@MovieDumpster Hey, I'm not made of stone, but I would love to hear you tell us why it's good to you and what hit the marks. Looking forward to the eventual tryst. So many people hate the 2nd movie with such fervor. I get it.

[@mattfischer1079]

Don't forget Jeff's place is an abandoned broom factory

[@jimblanco4972]

You guys talking about my all time favorite KZbinr is so awesome 👌

[@kyleshiflet9952]

I love GOOD BAD FLICKS especially his exploring series

[@ryanpowell2540]

Fun review. Everyone was on their game with this one.

[@JustinDavidTalks]

I dig these folks for sure buy what happened to Newt?

[@kristennelson3190]

I Loved woods parties!!! Way better than house parties when the parents are away.

[@LP-fy8wr]

I liked the whole "secret of Esrever" hidden stuff on the dvd

[@robk.6591]

I'm glad Trisha is back to review Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. She's funny and has a great complimentary perspective to Tony.

[@racheladamjuliewhite]

Jeff after this went on to do burn notice with Bruce Campbell and its a great spy series

[@Capital_D]

I'm still watching this but I truly hope someone from this trio mentions all the characters literally use they're real first names

[@Capital_D]

Yes they did, awesome

[@vodoodoll6953]

Joe!¡! You should really watch the new Suspiria. I think you'll quite enjoy it. It starts off pretty slow but once it gets going man oh man!¡! One my favorite horror movies of all time now not to mention one of the best remakes. And it's an Amazon prime original so it's free if you have prime....

[@KillerKondom]

First time ivr heard of Sicily was in Killer Kondom I doubt theyll review it, but mentionning it might get more people to watch it Killer Kondom, 1996 Check it out

[@MovieDumpster]

It's a wacky flick, haha. -Joe

[@Assimandeli]

Tony, Trisha and Joe is the best line up on this show, hands down. I remember a point in time when people were claiming that Blair Witch 2 is a misunderstood seuel and would have been a great film without the studio interference. I bought the film on DVD based on these claims and I wasn't impressed, to be honest. I think the film would've been pretty meh even if it was released in its intended form. The premise is neat, though.

[@LoneWolf-wu6yn]

Ahh, the ole zoom and enhance cliche. Every Casino Surveillance employee ever wishes that was thing.

[@BlabbermouthShow]

thanks for this, i liked it when i came out but yeah was young haha.... There is a fanedit that recuts a lot, takes out the BS and also changes in intro... LOVE THAT ONE , check it out.... on the DVD the secret of ESREVER ws funny haha

[@lobotomybob1]

Critters 2 EP? does this actually exist? I can't find it anywhere.

[@charlesderosas5577]

are you still doing podcasts with james?

[@kolchak33]

Blair Witch 2 was ahead of its time. But not as ahead of its time as Paul Blast: Mall Cop 2, in which Paul Blast saves an entire WYNN CASINO. (Sorry for spoilers).

[@falcolombardi8385]

I missed it, what’s the true crime podcast called?

[@kidcrossfire3489]

While the movie’s not great, I can appreciate that it went in a different direction. The latest one from a few years ago though is pretty worthless.

[@8strauss6]

you guys should review the 2016 one eventually

[@HackTheMovies]

Plan to!

[@8strauss6]

@@HackTheMovies can't wait! Lol try to get the same panel back plz. I know Trisha is probably going to be busy with her wedding I think I saw on tiktok

[@strifenineteen]

@@8strauss6 well it has happened

[@michaelscriver5395]

The craft hell yeah

[@ScarFace5566]

Sheriff played by Lanny Flaherty or Big Al for the Vatos Locos out there!

[@parkerswaxmuseum3746]

Does anyone else think that Tony sounds like, The International Super Star 'Zach Amico'?

[@IcyBird420]

Tony's looking extra sweaty today.

[@codyburnett3978]

What's the name of your buddy's podcast again?

[@HackTheMovies]

Movie Dumpster

[@Fixxxer07082]

Saw this mess when it came out in theaters. Had high hopes for it based on Berlinger’s track record with the Paradise Lost films….was totally disappointed by it. The cherry on it though was asking Joe Berlinger about it at a festival screening of Metallica: Some Kind of Monster in 2004 and he didnt have very nice things to say about it. 😅

[@jimbowlan5804]

Well he did get the fincher treatment

[@controlZchannel]

Early 2000s "witches" became today's Twitter cancel karens.

[@Dim4323]

The idea was intresting, Like if was a satire of blair witch like wes craven did with scream of new nightmare.

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

I have 3 copies of Blairwhich Project But only had one of this one

[@alexjones2651]

Italian Triple Threat 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@JayMakinen]

Trisha is my favourite famous italian who talks about tapes

[@TwoyBwoy]

What the hell. Did not expect to see max and Justin ( and Matt)at the end of the video. Very cool.

[@dansheehan4709]

Tony looks a little bit like the late great John Belushi

[@millmr20]

Are you guys going to review the X movie?

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

“I don’t have a kid named Jerry!” I understood that reference!!!!

[@shawnnightengale7372]

i am ready for this today its going to be great hack the movies and joe from movie dumpster and trisha from trishas italy keep up the work you guys

[@nightstrike90]

1:05:19 Best summary ever 😂😂😂

[@DrawkD2]

What shirt is Joe wearing?

[@darlordvader]

8 months late, but shadow of the blair witch kind of makes up for book of shadows. Book if shadows is treated like a real event like blair witch was, and then explains that what we see in book of shadows is like Hollywood making a movie about the events in shadow of the blair witch, if that makes any sense. I might have explained that oddly

[@jimbowlan5804]

Wasn’t shadow the mockumentry that the creators did along side the movie

[@darlordvader]

@@jimbowlan5804 correct. It treats book of shadows as a movie based on the real events covered in the shadow of the blair witch mockumentary

[@kingkold]

Hey Joe,I didn't mind the Zac Efron Ted Bundy movie, because around the same time they released the Ted Bundy tapes. Which was more documentary style. There is a good chance if you saw one, you saw the other.

[@kidcrossfire3489]

If they weren’t both on Netflix, I wouldn’t have. If you need the documentary to really enjoy the movie, then that means the movie kind of fails on its own. The Zac Efron movie felt like the CliffNotes version of all the better documentaries that have been done, kind of like that Michael Shannon Iceman movie from about a decade ago. That was like a Greatest Hits cover album of the documentary series that HBO did on the guy where he was telling the stories in his own words.

[@JesterTheAsura]

Wood porn existed when I was a kid in a small village in Alaska. Penhouse and some super catalog. A lot of those for some reason. Try hanging out on an Alaskan beach next to the woods!

[@NebLleb]

If you're really curious, do yourself a favour by buying the movie on home video... And then ignoring that copy and watching the "Artisan Removal Cut" instead. It's a recut intended to reshape the movie into something close to what Berlinger intended, and though it's still flawed, it's actually a solid standalone sequel to the original Blair Witch Project in that form. If I were to watch the Artisan Book of Shadows cut, I'd have a feeling it would be right up there with Brightburn, Alien Covenant and Stage Fright as one of the worst horror movies I've ever watched.

[@belachaney]

For giallo how about reviewing "Phenomena" with a young Jennifer Connelly and Donald Pleasance directed by Argento

[@justinjc79]

Now Heather goes by Rei Hance since she retired, due to her name causing her to not get roles.

[@matthewganong1730]

The first theater production I did in college was a play written by Tristine Skyler who plays Tristen in this film.

[@davebooshty299]

18:34 Psycho (1960) Is a Good example.

[@jubjub444]

Wizardess is also used for female Wizards.

[@PureEvil1138]

The craft would be an awesome choice

[@JadedJester739]

Wiccan are totally very into nature and would actually ask a plant for permission to pick a leaf. Js. Grew up in that whole scene.

[@heisensaul5538]

When Tony gets drunk in the woods and yells at people, I can see him being like: GET OUT OF HERE SLASH THE MOVIES!!!!! THIS IS HACK THE MOVIES!!!!!

[@BatmanWangChung]

I hear they are going go review Alien 3 😁

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Bring Cecil Trachtenberg here!

[@AxelPeter]

on the topic of true crime listen to last podcast on the left .. Tony theres a guy there that was in wolf of wall street so... theres that

[@seniorpoopypants]

i used to be a warlock tony untill my ex started fkn the raid leader now im just depressed

[@damianstarks3338]

This takes me back to my childhood.

[@MutaScale]

I remember Cecil's vid on the film! XD And speaking of the 2016 film, I actually own one of the original one sheet teaser posters for it when everyone thought it was just "The Woods". And still in great condition.

[@kidcrossfire3489]

I have those too from the theater that I worked at. Unfortunately, the fact that they were able to make and market a secret Blair Witch movie that no one knew was a Blair Witch movie until just a few weeks before it came out is the most interesting thing about that movie. It wasn’t very good and it did even less business than Book of Shadows.

[@MutaScale]

@@kidcrossfire3489 I always rhought it was one of those "Either you love it or thought it was Meh" kind of films. I enjoyed it. Still was cool to get the poster as the theater I bought it from rarely sells their posters.

[@C-Murph]

OMG TRISHA. Review Dellamorte Dellamore with her~!

[@theflail]

I don't actually remember this being a thing at all.

[@kidcrossfire3489]

It came and went pretty fast.

[@Samsquamsh]

I'm a simple man. I see Trisha, I click.

[@kidcrossfire3489]

Blair Witch 2 did TERRIBLE business on top of people not liking it. I mean, it was probably relatively cheap, so it didn’t lose money, but it only did like 25 million in the US (45 overall), while the first one did 140 million in the US alone. The fact that it opened so poorly meant that it didn’t even look interesting enough to check out. I saw it opening night and then maybe only once or twice since then. It’s the first movie I ever saw in the theater that I would start working at a few months later through just two years ago.

[@payasombroso]

Hi Tony, Just to mention i saw a movie a couple of days ago called wolfcop, it is about a cop that becomes a werewolf, Just wanted to know if it was a ripp-off of mummy cop, you should check it out and review it Just for the irony

[@HackTheMovies]

Mummy cop came first but I HIGHLY doubt they watched my college short film haha. When I made the web series Wolf cop was being made at the same time and we would tweet each other occasionally. I don't think they ripped me off at all.

[@jingaijigokumoto6119]

DEEP RED

[@trishasitaly]

Profondo rosso!!!! It’s a must

[@nickgagnon3626]

I like Blair Witch 2 despite the flaws.

[@ICEHAWKLTD]

14:50 - I see no Italian problem here. I only see Mario and Luigi have Princess Pesca as a guest who is an crossplaying Vanessa Doofenschmirtz. Great episode Tony.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Where was the book, indeed?!

[@katiecook6006]

Ok. I'm about to full Blair Witch nerd here on Joe. Didn't Rustin Parr kill the kids in the 1940s? Not the 1800s?

[@themarkiscookin]

Where the hell was the book of shadows for the whole movie

[@tommiegun1980]

you should do a movie revieuw about RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, one of the best zombies movies ever made, from the golden 80'S

[@tommiegun1980]

@Mariana D'Amelio Hahahaha.....mine too Such an gem of an zombie movie

[@VaderTheWhite]

According to both Shadow of the Blair Witch and the book about the in-universe events (a sequel to The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier), the events surrounding Heather, Josh, and Mike did happen. Seriously, am I the only one who does research?

[@jimbowlan5804]

No my friend had the book we talked about it constantly in school

[@VaderTheWhite]

@@jimbowlan5804 thank you!

[@turtleanton6539]

Oh.

[@michaelsullivan007]

I enjoy this movie. Not too bad.