Ah, yes. Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows; the film where the history of the production is more interesting and cohesive than this finalized clusterfuck.
One of the main issues with this film was that the studio didn't like the cut the director made and ordered re-shoots of a lot of the scenes to make it more mainstream horror. Chances are the director's version may have made a bit more sense
It was, the director was pissed. And there is a fan cut out there that's closer to the director's version. Good Bad Flicks did a video about it several years back.
I doubt it, they literally don't even connect these people or events to anything that happened in the first movie, so I'm not sure how changing the shots would've fixed that glaring issue. Remember, the first movie kinda ended on a cliffhanger and it doesn't tell you at all what happened to the kids and even the Blair Witch makes no appearance in either of the films, so if they wanted it to make any sense, they should've at least established the continuation of the events from the first film. Again, we don't get that with this movie, it just sucks and it wouldn't really change it if a camera shot was slightly different.
A Book of Shadows is a Wiccan's journal of rituals and such. They clearly just slapped something witchy sounding onto the title for lack of something better.
I still think it would have been interesting if they worked the actual book in someway. Even if the title of the movie is verbalized and then followed with the intent if it being a joke and only once I find that so much better than if it's something never mentioned or shown at all
Hm. She probably thought her kid would be able to make enemies dizzy with its breath, stop oncoming traffic when it wanders into the street and being very chill about it. Of course this is BS.
I thought the exact same thing. I wouldn't even be ten feet near the house to smoke when my wife was pregnant. Too much of a risk. I guess you could make the arguement that she didn't want it anyway, but still ... right in front of the father? Thank you for being hanged.
So they talk in the movie about buying a factory for a dollar and you show a clip from The Simpsons involving Gil. Meanwhile there is a scene from The Simpsons where Bart LITERALLY buys a factory for A DOLLAR!
Cool hidden things in the movie you can see in this video: 6:15 the word "Me" in written in flowers(?) to the left of Erica's stomach Pause carefully at 7:00 and the word "Seek" appears in the flicker of the flames. Pause starting at 7:11 and a ghostly face appears in the cloud of smoke Stephen exhales 14:58 the word "No" is written on the window 16:26 the circle pattern of the rug is manipulated to say "OR" The ones not shown in video include the gravestone the goth girl lays on saying "Further", and a scene of the author speaking backwards (which is what gives the goth girl the idea to run the tapes backwards), which if you run it forward it says "The Children Will Again Walk Free". The complete message reads "Seek Me No Further or The Children Will Again Walk Free". What I think this implies is that the Blair Witch is tormenting the group using the souls of the Burkittsville Seven, the children murdered by Rusten Parr, who is actually the old man "cheating upskirt shots" in the store scene. The Burkittsville Seven are some of the ghost children throughout the movie, as well as Ilene Treacle, a girl who the Blair Witch supposedly drowned and is the gravestone the goth girl was laying on top of. The message reading "or" instead of "and" makes the message sound like a threat. I think it means that if people didn't stop their pursuit of the Witch, she would unleash the souls of the murdered children to torment them. Idk about anyone else but I like to think that that is what happened at the end of the first movie, when Heather went into the basement where the children were murdered, with Josh facing the wall just like the surviving child, she was murdered and disemboweled by the souls of the Burkittsville Seven, acting under the will of the Blair Witch just like Rusten Parr. Having seen a fan edit of this film where it isn't edited all out of order with random flashes of visions, the movie is actually pretty interesting and is very well intertwined with the lore of the first movie, it's even a meta commentary about the Blair Witch craze where you don't know how much of what happened was shared delusions caused by the hysteria surrounding the first movie, and how much of it was the Witch, and what exactly the Witch is. Because the first movie was just a movie in the second movie, but they suggest that the hysteria is what is causing the Blair Witch to be "real" in this world. That even if the group is actually just crazy and only believes in the witch, it's real to them.
The problem is that without this the movie would make zero sense as it’s portrayed, in theaters you’d be so lost and at home if you didn’t have a guide you’d spend hours looking at stuff. Love the comment and would love to know where to go to get more info about the lore
Shitty premise of shitty movie explained to make a better movie than what we seen. Honestly not even a fan of the first one cause basically nothing happens, but fan of the stories of how it was filmed and also the potential theories. Seems a running theme is bad movies that can actually be good when analyzed or shot well but they weren't and fell out of popularity and nothing coming out of this shit anymore
@@jackhageman9983 Another issue is all the hidden messages are only in the VHS home release. I think first print DVDs had it too. It was an ARG for the home release.
It still surprises me that Doug didn't look more into the movie, similar to the "Thief and the Cobbler" review. Blair Witch 2 was originally meant to be a bit more satirical than it turned out to be. The main characters were suppose to represent the fan base the original movie had. The two authors were suppose to represent the Historical and Mythological view points of the witch legend. One of them was going to focus on the witch hunts, while the other focused on the attributed paranormal feats of the witch. The Wiccan was suppose to be the people who were upset and felt that the movie was an insult to their faith. The Goth was the group that took it to far, like the group that flocked the town after the movie was released. And the "tour guide" was the people who wanted a quick buck, selling rocks, soil, and stick figures after the movie came out. The "Book of Shadows" bit, the editing, and many of the subplots came from the studio wanting the movie to be more edgy. Would the original idea have made the movie a master piece? No. Would it have made it better than what we got? Probably.
Haha that would explain the ending a bit more then. They all thought they were making a different movie only to realize the studio pulled the rug from underneath their feet like these people thinking they were doing a documentary just to realize they were blacking out and murdering people. It was probably unintentional though.
Some of the studio ideas could have been worked in better if it wasn't rushed. Ironically the the butchering of the movie unintentionally reinforces the point Berlinger was making. This movie is somewhere above the throwaway cheeseball movies that get released around Halloween.
He does hint at it at the end of the review, that it might’ve worked better as a satire or if it was supposed to be satirical it wasn’t handled very well.
That's actually fascinating, perhaps inspiring Cabin in the Woods along the way. You don't happen to have any extensive reports or studies into it do you?
@@declanflannery7377 As a matter of fact, there is another video on this very topic, from GoodBadFlicks. If you dig deeper, you can also find a fan-edited version that is more true to the original vision - look for Agent Sam Stanley.
The movie could've been good, had the studio not interfered in what Joe Berlinger originally wanted to do with the movie. GoodBadFlicks has a video about what went on with the movie that I thought was pretty insightful.
Yes. Agree. It was more of a psychological thriller originally. The people who chopped the movie added the unconnected killing of the foreign tour group, making the guide dude have a "Looney bin" past and even music choices were changed to give the movie a different vibe. I think Weinstein was even involved in the chopping, as he has been known to do to ruin movies
Rented it way back after it came out...glad I didn't see it in theaters.... low budget and campy, but I still stuck it out since the first film was ok and the chicks in this one were super cute. It was worth the rent, I guess. And then I saw the Bogus Witch Project with Pauly Shore next...fuckin A. What a great week that was 😝
10:20 "I will do the German dance for you! It's fun and gay and tra-la-la!" 13:26 "Would you like some sauerkraut, German boy, German boy? Yes, I'd like some sauerkraut-!"
I watched this movie multiple times in high school, and crazily enough, the goth girl is actually _without a doubt_ the most likeable, down-to-earth, and yes, most sensible character in the movie. I friggin' love her, non-ironically.
Not that it makes the film any better, but the tube in the nose thing is a referance to the 1967 documentary Titticut Follies that exposed the conditions in a mental asylum. In one scene a patient who refuses to eat is force fed through a tube in the nose by the head psychiatrist, who is smoking a cigarette as he's doing it.
Yes! I remember this from a film history class I took in college. Too strange for fiction-- it was shocking in the documentary but copied in a movie it just looks over the top.
@@Rachel-vz7yg I suppose it could have worked if it was done right, in the right film. In this it looks out of place because first of all the film is set in 1999 and secondly you can't expect the audience of Blair Witch 2 to have seen the original clip.
In fact, this entire movie is the fucking Family Guy of found footage horror. Seriously, this movie is filled with ripped off scenes of much better horror movies. And there's no "tribute" or anything, it's blatant stealing from other horror films and doing absolutely nothing with them. Who in the shitball directed this nonsense?
My roommate rented this while we were in college, and I will forgive him for stealing my girlfriend before I forgive him for making me watch this. The one consolation is that he hated it too.
This is one of my favorite Nostalgia Critic videos I don't like when they remade the intro I like it how it was just the X-Files but still I'm glad they brought it back I freaking love this episode
There is one thing this movie did that was unique: background. On the rental VHS copy (yes, I'm that old) there was a little featurette at the end showing there were a lot of little creepy things in the background throughout--dirt on a window forming a hag's face, locks arranged in the shape of a pentagram that rearranged when someone walked in front of them, etc. I that that was kind of cool already, but I remember the featurette also had an icon with letters in the corner. And when you wrote those letters out backwards, it spelled object names; "grave" "rug" and "water" were the ones I remember. There was some kind of hidden message on those objects in the background scattered throughout the movie, but I remember not being able to figure it out. ("Water" got me.Way too vague what "water" they meant)
This is SO frustrating. I liked the first one. And this COULD have been even better. There are some really good ideas that are absolutely buried under studio meddling.
You know who did the “hype of a movie or tv show blurring the line between reality and fiction” really well was the late great Satoshi Kon and his anime Paranoia Agent
When folks are talking about movies, "video" typically refers to cheap cameras recording on magnetic tape cassettes, as opposed to professional-grade equipment. The equivalent today would be like recording a movie on your smartphone.
Shredder- You are here because the outside world-(Sudden cut to a clip of the turtles fighting;) Shredder- What was that? Okay… You are here because the outside world-(A quick clip of Michelangelo shouting “Turtle!” Shredder- Huh? Anyway… This is your family. I… am your father-(A quick clip of Raphael attacking a Foot Clan member is shown) Shredder- Okay, seriously, nobody saw that? At all? Okay, where was I? “You are here because the outside world rejects you.” Oh, yeah. This is your family. I-(A quick clip of Raphael fighting the Foot Clan is shown) Shredder- TELL ME YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT! NOTHING? ANY OF YOU? Okay, fuck it. Bathroom’s to your left. We’re fighting turtles.
if you scream "Pumpkin juice" 5 times in a pumpkin patch you will raise him from hell where he will burst from the ground on his death chopper ride around slaying sjw/npc/ dumb A$$ dir's with a film canister of blair witch two
When Doug cut to Miss Piggy saying, "I swear to Christ", I was _so waiting_ for that to be followed by that clip from _The Dark Knight_ when Batman says "SWEAR TO ME!!"
The book of shadows is a journal used by practitioners of the Wiccan religion. It's often used by individual practitioners, but entire covens are known to have their own book of shadows as well. This journal is used to contain rituals, spells, and other things pertaining to that particular faith. It is rumored that when a wiccan dies their "book of shadows" is burned or destroyed. It's possible the book that was destroyed during their mad ritual and/or the tapes used in this film was this films version of the Book of Shadows. Still I agree that if this movie is going to title itself "book of shadows" there should have been more emphasis on it. Such as maybe having the Erica 'The Wiccan Chick' have a journal with her and that she calls her book of shadows, and that the events that happen appear as rituals in her journal. Rituals she denies ever writing. And other events such as the Goth girls psychic powers being due to the fact she has a page from Erica's journal because reasons, and the footage reveals her ripping a page out of the journal. Or maybe Tristan is shown in the footage reading a spell from Erica's book, which would be why she is leading that satanic ritual.
Hold on, an unexplained psychic, an unexplained supernatural element, a disappointing let down… all we need for this to take place in Maine and we got a Stephen king story!!!
23:00 Oh THAT was the initial intent. That’s what the Director wanted! But then Artisan went “FUCK THAT METALOGICAL BULLSHIT JUST EDIT BLOOD N GORE!!!” #ReleaseTheDirectorsCut
8:36 Hey, heeeeeeeeeyyy! World War II was a goodass sequel. It far surpassed its predecessor with how much damage, shock value and just messing shit up reeeeeaall good in general. 10/10 can't wait for the trequal :)
Maybe I'm wrong, I don't have any experience with these things, but they were high and drunk, is it really that surprising that they don't remember something?
Haven't watched the whole review but I watched a making of and they actually inserted things that change in the middle of the scenes For example In one of the scenes there is a bunch of lockers and as the camera pans around a bed(could be wrong on the bed) the locker have a pentagram suddenly appears made from the plastic handles around the locks (if you find the scene your see it)
Reminder: The final cut of this was a butcher cut by Artisan. The director actually wanted to satire the phenomenon created by the first movie. The opening song was supposed to be "Witchcraft" by Frank Sinatra.
This was one of those films that just got completely dumped on from day 1 but honestly was a perfectly serviceable late 90s/ early 2000s horror movie. Really, you take 'Blair Witch' out of the title and no one would have complained about it. In fact it would probably be one of those relatively forgotten movies folks would bring up with fond memories.
It wasn't quite dumped- it did do pretty good opening weekend, making back it's relatively low budget (this is Artisan we're talking about), but promptly sank like a stone amidst the mediocre reviews.
This movie is why studios need to stop interfering with the director's vision. The original movie was actually very clever; it was about how the Blair Witch phenomenon was going too far and could drive people to do crazy things. The characters were all stereotypes on purpose, because they were supposed to represent certain real life groups: the wiccans who the movie offended, the goths, the people who made money off it, etc. But then the studio butchered it.
I love the moment when this beard guy shouts "How did u know!?" just as if he was trying to beat our fabled Nicolas Cage in his majestic "The Wicker Man" overacting
How would you feel about a Diddy Kong Racing sequel that added characters from My Hero Academia, Little Witch Academia, Kirby, The Amazing World of Gumball, **Persona 5,** Family Guy, Sonic, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Digimon Tamers, The Simpsons, Invader Zim, Crash Bandicoot and RWBY with Haruko from FLCL, Hat Kid, Popuko and Pipmi from Pop Team Epic, Bomberman, Doom Slayer, Beavis and Butthead also being there? Kirby gets pushed as a second Protagonist to go along with Diddy Kong. Imagine racing against Akko with Izuku, shooting a missile at Gumball, Gumball, Izuku, and Akko smoking pot with their friends, throwing an oil slick at Ren, Ryuji using a bat to knock opponents sideways, Ann using her whip to whip a nearby rival, Yusuke asking Momo if she’d be painted nude, Fregley putting his foot in his mouth to distract the other drivers so they can crash, Futaba showing everyone rule 34, Makoto dodging bombs that Bomberman planted on the race track, etc.
It is very interesting to know that this movie is NOT the film the director wanted to make. He was forced by distributors to film scenes that had nothing to do with his original vision. What he envisioned was far more detailed and nuanced, not this crappy mainstream one we have today. The title "Book of Shadows" never existed in the director's vision, for example. Look up: "GoodBadFlicks Blair Witch 2".
Donald Arteaga I’ve watched that video tons of times. It’s disappointing that the studio butchered the original vision and made a generic and disjointed piece of schlock
Ah, yes. Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows; the film where the history of the production is more interesting and cohesive than this finalized clusterfuck.
That can make a really good Wha Happun episode there.
Or an episode of "Production Hell", by the Critical Drinker
Pp bx
ohhhh lord
Which is saying something, considering how much of a clusterfuck its production was-
Still pretty upset about x-files music not being used , stupid copyright😔
Also, a scene with Queens of the Stone Age’s “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” in the background is cut. Copyright/licensing issues suck...
@@ChrisNeufeldMusic Is it still available on their site? I mean the original upload
Viktor Kiss No, but it’s somewhere on UA-cam in two parts.
Nathaniel Foga Yeah, there were also some snippets and scenes removed from the review as well. Ah well.
@@ChrisNeufeldMusic oh cool, thanks
One of the main issues with this film was that the studio didn't like the cut the director made and ordered re-shoots of a lot of the scenes to make it more mainstream horror. Chances are the director's version may have made a bit more sense
release the blair witch cut !
It always has to be the studio, doesn't it? And then, when people call the movie bad, the studio doesn't take any responsibility
Although this was a horrible movie that made a shitload of money, I definitely want to see the original cut
It was, the director was pissed. And there is a fan cut out there that's closer to the director's version. Good Bad Flicks did a video about it several years back.
I doubt it, they literally don't even connect these people or events to anything that happened in the first movie, so I'm not sure how changing the shots would've fixed that glaring issue. Remember, the first movie kinda ended on a cliffhanger and it doesn't tell you at all what happened to the kids and even the Blair Witch makes no appearance in either of the films, so if they wanted it to make any sense, they should've at least established the continuation of the events from the first film. Again, we don't get that with this movie, it just sucks and it wouldn't really change it if a camera shot was slightly different.
A Book of Shadows is a Wiccan's journal of rituals and such. They clearly just slapped something witchy sounding onto the title for lack of something better.
Pretty much was the studio’s intent. Joe Berlinger didn’t want to call it that, but the studio just did what they want
Not just a wiccans book either its any witches book
I still think it would have been interesting if they worked the actual book in someway. Even if the title of the movie is verbalized and then followed with the intent if it being a joke and only once I find that so much better than if it's something never mentioned or shown at all
Would have made sense for Erica to own a copy for this given she is part of that religion.
I thought it was the name of a script for a Blair Witch film the Tour Guide was planning on making.
How come this woman drinks and smokes weed and is then shocked that she loses her baby? Like what did you think was going to happen?
You'd be surprised...
People can do meth and still have their baby, but it might come out early or deformed
Hm. She probably thought her kid would be able to make enemies dizzy with its breath, stop oncoming traffic when it wanders into the street and being very chill about it.
Of course this is BS.
I thought the exact same thing. I wouldn't even be ten feet near the house to smoke when my wife was pregnant. Too much of a risk. I guess you could make the arguement that she didn't want it anyway, but still ... right in front of the father? Thank you for being hanged.
Kay Kay Yes indeed
"For 20 minutes, I thought the Blair witch was the grass."
- Nostalgia Critic 2011
2011. This was a reupload due to copyright claims.
maxman1602 oh okay
@@rainbowracer9576 I honestly thought this was a new episode until I read the description and other comments.
Hey I loved allosaurus a walking wig dinosaurs species to nice picture.
Rainbow Racer 95 2018*
I love how the Critic played the Cartman German dance song from South Park every time the ghost girl was onscreen!
I LAUGHED BECAUSE I SAW THE THING! LOL
I AM NOW TYPING IT OUT TO POINT OUT THAT THE THING HAPPENED AND I LAUGHED AT IT.....
@@dannygreen5477 someone get this hothead out of here
So they talk in the movie about buying a factory for a dollar and you show a clip from The Simpsons involving Gil. Meanwhile there is a scene from The Simpsons where Bart LITERALLY buys a factory for A DOLLAR!
Good episode, a classic
Plus Jeffery reminds me of an adult version of Bart
the ninja turtles bit with shredder was surprisingly hilarious XD. even the kids' expressions made it work XD.
Cool hidden things in the movie you can see in this video:
6:15 the word "Me" in written in flowers(?) to the left of Erica's stomach
Pause carefully at 7:00 and the word "Seek" appears in the flicker of the flames.
Pause starting at 7:11 and a ghostly face appears in the cloud of smoke Stephen exhales
14:58 the word "No" is written on the window
16:26 the circle pattern of the rug is manipulated to say "OR"
The ones not shown in video include the gravestone the goth girl lays on saying "Further", and a scene of the author speaking backwards (which is what gives the goth girl the idea to run the tapes backwards), which if you run it forward it says "The Children Will Again Walk Free".
The complete message reads "Seek Me No Further or The Children Will Again Walk Free".
What I think this implies is that the Blair Witch is tormenting the group using the souls of the Burkittsville Seven, the children murdered by Rusten Parr, who is actually the old man "cheating upskirt shots" in the store scene. The Burkittsville Seven are some of the ghost children throughout the movie, as well as Ilene Treacle, a girl who the Blair Witch supposedly drowned and is the gravestone the goth girl was laying on top of. The message reading "or" instead of "and" makes the message sound like a threat. I think it means that if people didn't stop their pursuit of the Witch, she would unleash the souls of the murdered children to torment them. Idk about anyone else but I like to think that that is what happened at the end of the first movie, when Heather went into the basement where the children were murdered, with Josh facing the wall just like the surviving child, she was murdered and disemboweled by the souls of the Burkittsville Seven, acting under the will of the Blair Witch just like Rusten Parr.
Having seen a fan edit of this film where it isn't edited all out of order with random flashes of visions, the movie is actually pretty interesting and is very well intertwined with the lore of the first movie, it's even a meta commentary about the Blair Witch craze where you don't know how much of what happened was shared delusions caused by the hysteria surrounding the first movie, and how much of it was the Witch, and what exactly the Witch is. Because the first movie was just a movie in the second movie, but they suggest that the hysteria is what is causing the Blair Witch to be "real" in this world. That even if the group is actually just crazy and only believes in the witch, it's real to them.
Fascinating
The problem is that without this the movie would make zero sense as it’s portrayed, in theaters you’d be so lost and at home if you didn’t have a guide you’d spend hours looking at stuff. Love the comment and would love to know where to go to get more info about the lore
Shitty premise of shitty movie explained to make a better movie than what we seen. Honestly not even a fan of the first one cause basically nothing happens, but fan of the stories of how it was filmed and also the potential theories. Seems a running theme is bad movies that can actually be good when analyzed or shot well but they weren't and fell out of popularity and nothing coming out of this shit anymore
The seek me no further bit is also part of an ARG they did.
@@jackhageman9983 Another issue is all the hidden messages are only in the VHS home release. I think first print DVDs had it too. It was an ARG for the home release.
NC falling down the stairs makes me laugh every time.
It still surprises me that Doug didn't look more into the movie, similar to the "Thief and the Cobbler" review. Blair Witch 2 was originally meant to be a bit more satirical than it turned out to be. The main characters were suppose to represent the fan base the original movie had. The two authors were suppose to represent the Historical and Mythological view points of the witch legend. One of them was going to focus on the witch hunts, while the other focused on the attributed paranormal feats of the witch. The Wiccan was suppose to be the people who were upset and felt that the movie was an insult to their faith. The Goth was the group that took it to far, like the group that flocked the town after the movie was released. And the "tour guide" was the people who wanted a quick buck, selling rocks, soil, and stick figures after the movie came out.
The "Book of Shadows" bit, the editing, and many of the subplots came from the studio wanting the movie to be more edgy. Would the original idea have made the movie a master piece? No. Would it have made it better than what we got? Probably.
Haha that would explain the ending a bit more then. They all thought they were making a different movie only to realize the studio pulled the rug from underneath their feet like these people thinking they were doing a documentary just to realize they were blacking out and murdering people. It was probably unintentional though.
Some of the studio ideas could have been worked in better if it wasn't rushed.
Ironically the the butchering of the movie unintentionally reinforces the point Berlinger was making. This movie is somewhere above the throwaway cheeseball movies that get released around Halloween.
He does hint at it at the end of the review, that it might’ve worked better as a satire or if it was supposed to be satirical it wasn’t handled very well.
That's actually fascinating, perhaps inspiring Cabin in the Woods along the way. You don't happen to have any extensive reports or studies into it do you?
@@declanflannery7377 As a matter of fact, there is another video on this very topic, from GoodBadFlicks. If you dig deeper, you can also find a fan-edited version that is more true to the original vision - look for Agent Sam Stanley.
The movie could've been good, had the studio not interfered in what Joe Berlinger originally wanted to do with the movie. GoodBadFlicks has a video about what went on with the movie that I thought was pretty insightful.
Yes. Agree.
It was more of a psychological thriller originally.
The people who chopped the movie added the unconnected killing of the foreign tour group, making the guide dude have a "Looney bin" past and even music choices were changed to give the movie a different vibe.
I think Weinstein was even involved in the chopping, as he has been known to do to ruin movies
That video was super informative in figuring out what happened. It’s too bad that Berlinger’s version isn’t available
I'm surprised they even bothered to file a copyright on a movie so bad
Think it was more e xfiles music in the intro. Which isnt necessary for a review of a movie other than xfiles and so yey shouldnt be using it.
Graeme Evans
Dang it, but it was so FUNNY.
@@ge2719 The Blair Witch concept could be an X-File. Did you ever watch Kolchak: The Knight S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Mammon-worshiping materialistic idolaters will invoke copyright "law" any chance they get. Fair Use has a posse!
I watched this in theaters totally sucked
Rented it way back after it came out...glad I didn't see it in theaters.... low budget and campy, but I still stuck it out since the first film was ok and the chicks in this one were super cute. It was worth the rent, I guess.
And then I saw the Bogus Witch Project with Pauly Shore next...fuckin A. What a great week that was 😝
I saw this in theaters multiple times, only because I worked in a movie theater at the time and I was bored. lol
Doug, please wear more eyeliner in future reviews.
10:20 "I will do the German dance for you! It's fun and gay and tra-la-la!"
13:26 "Would you like some sauerkraut, German boy, German boy? Yes, I'd like some sauerkraut-!"
Nostalgiaween?! This isn't October! It's Christmas time! Oh wait this is a re upload.....
Which would explain why Doug has hair
@@rtasvadumee5352 wait?? he always had hair???
@@ChrisKoraltan He only shaved it off sometime around the Dragonball Evolution review (maybe for it, i can't remember any more)
Lliam Smith r/woooooooosh
so jack skellington christmas
This was the first nostalgia critic review I ever saw. I’m happy to see it re uploaded.
**Wicked Witch has lurked into the server**
*Flying house has joined the server*
Uh oh
I watched this movie multiple times in high school, and crazily enough, the goth girl is actually _without a doubt_ the most likeable, down-to-earth, and yes, most sensible character in the movie. I friggin' love her, non-ironically.
Me too! She’s cool
Oh my god this is the greatest movie I've ever seen in my life
Not that it makes the film any better, but the tube in the nose thing is a referance to the 1967 documentary Titticut Follies that exposed the conditions in a mental asylum. In one scene a patient who refuses to eat is force fed through a tube in the nose by the head psychiatrist, who is smoking a cigarette as he's doing it.
Reminds me of that one SpongeBob episode
"Patrick! You forgot how to eat again! C'mon, we'll get the funnel!"
Yes! I remember this from a film history class I took in college. Too strange for fiction-- it was shocking in the documentary but copied in a movie it just looks over the top.
@@Rachel-vz7yg I suppose it could have worked if it was done right, in the right film. In this it looks out of place because first of all the film is set in 1999 and secondly you can't expect the audience of Blair Witch 2 to have seen the original clip.
In fact, this entire movie is the fucking Family Guy of found footage horror.
Seriously, this movie is filled with ripped off scenes of much better horror movies. And there's no "tribute" or anything, it's blatant stealing from other horror films and doing absolutely nothing with them. Who in the shitball directed this nonsense?
@@liopleurodon2000 "No, Spongebob, it's not that!"
"Darn, I like the funnel."
"I swear to Christ!"
13:55
Blair Witch 2 : the electric boogaloo
Nathaniel Foga
Ha BOOgaloo
Couldn't help yourself, could you? Not that this movie wasn't asking for it.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blair Witch 2: The Search For More Money
The Ninja Turtle part kills me everytime😂😂😂😂
20:56 the director’s reaction to the final cut of the movie.
😂😂😂😂😂😊
Kek perfect.
I know, right? I realize there's absolutely zero chance it would happen, but I so wish there were a way to see the original cut.
I read this comment on the original video comment section, I was waiting to read it again xD
That whole shredder thing is still one of the funniest moments in NC history.
it went on a bit too long...but yeah
My roommate rented this while we were in college, and I will forgive him for stealing my girlfriend before I forgive him for making me watch this. The one consolation is that he hated it too.
did he 'steal' your girlfriend too?
Did we ever find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
We'll probably never know.
"3"
Makes sense, 3 *is* the Magic Number.
13
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2**
This is a perfect Christmas movie.
You know this a reupload right
U r correct :3
Full of holiday cheer
How's so lol, please explain your weird logic for the joke XD
This is one of my favorite Nostalgia Critic videos I don't like when they remade the intro I like it how it was just the X-Files but still I'm glad they brought it back I freaking love this episode
Ahhh good old Michael Weston. Before he was iconic....
I swear he used this character n Burn Notice once lol
There is one thing this movie did that was unique: background. On the rental VHS copy (yes, I'm that old) there was a little featurette at the end showing there were a lot of little creepy things in the background throughout--dirt on a window forming a hag's face, locks arranged in the shape of a pentagram that rearranged when someone walked in front of them, etc.
I that that was kind of cool already, but I remember the featurette also had an icon with letters in the corner. And when you wrote those letters out backwards, it spelled object names; "grave" "rug" and "water" were the ones I remember. There was some kind of hidden message on those objects in the background scattered throughout the movie, but I remember not being able to figure it out. ("Water" got me.Way too vague what "water" they meant)
I recommend watching GoodBadFlix's take on this, as the executive meddling *royally* butchered what would have been a pretty original concept.
This is SO frustrating. I liked the first one. And this COULD have been even better. There are some really good ideas that are absolutely buried under studio meddling.
Thanks for reminding me THIS movie exists.
You know who did the “hype of a movie or tv show blurring the line between reality and fiction” really well was the late great Satoshi Kon and his anime Paranoia Agent
“It was shot on a video camera”
Just in case you thought it was shot on a SunnyD bottle.
When folks are talking about movies, "video" typically refers to cheap cameras recording on magnetic tape cassettes, as opposed to professional-grade equipment. The equivalent today would be like recording a movie on your smartphone.
Shredder- You are here because the outside world-(Sudden cut to a clip of the turtles fighting;) Shredder- What was that? Okay… You are here because the outside world-(A quick clip of Michelangelo shouting “Turtle!” Shredder- Huh? Anyway… This is your family. I… am your father-(A quick clip of Raphael attacking a Foot Clan member is shown) Shredder- Okay, seriously, nobody saw that? At all? Okay, where was I? “You are here because the outside world rejects you.” Oh, yeah. This is your family. I-(A quick clip of Raphael fighting the Foot Clan is shown) Shredder- TELL ME YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT! NOTHING? ANY OF YOU? Okay, fuck it. Bathroom’s to your left. We’re fighting turtles.
That joke is an instant classic in my book.
@@zachwillas6329 Its one of my favorite parts in his review.
One of my fav NC jokes ever
And Copyright strikes again!
So your saying that this is a good thing?
@@ultimate4721 HELL NO!!! I was saying that, because this was about the 6th or 7th time this has happened! And I'm already sick of it!
Cuz youtube is DICK that's why
And because of that they fvcking deserve that 10 million dislikes
had to stop halfway, that turtle slpice up is 10/10 teamfourstar level, good job on that
Todd Mcfarlane toy series actually released two interesting action figures of what the Blair Witch could look like.
Pumpkin juice! Pumpkin juice! Pumpkin juice! *insert blood curdling screams here*
if you scream "Pumpkin juice" 5 times in a pumpkin patch you will raise him from hell where he will burst from the ground on his death chopper ride around slaying sjw/npc/ dumb A$$ dir's with a film canister of blair witch two
Please do a review on the movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Hang on hang on hang on, that was a thing?
@@deag8169 Yeah. MST3K reviewed it. It was ok. NC would have a blast.
I thought that's what this was!
Finally my favourite Nostalgia - Ween review got re-uploaded! :))
When Doug cut to Miss Piggy saying, "I swear to Christ", I was _so waiting_ for that to be followed by that clip from _The Dark Knight_ when Batman says "SWEAR TO ME!!"
The book of shadows is a journal used by practitioners of the Wiccan religion. It's often used by individual practitioners, but entire covens are known to have their own book of shadows as well. This journal is used to contain rituals, spells, and other things pertaining to that particular faith. It is rumored that when a wiccan dies their "book of shadows" is burned or destroyed. It's possible the book that was destroyed during their mad ritual and/or the tapes used in this film was this films version of the Book of Shadows. Still I agree that if this movie is going to title itself "book of shadows" there should have been more emphasis on it. Such as maybe having the Erica 'The Wiccan Chick' have a journal with her and that she calls her book of shadows, and that the events that happen appear as rituals in her journal. Rituals she denies ever writing. And other events such as the Goth girls psychic powers being due to the fact she has a page from Erica's journal because reasons, and the footage reveals her ripping a page out of the journal. Or maybe Tristan is shown in the footage reading a spell from Erica's book, which would be why she is leading that satanic ritual.
Hold on, an unexplained psychic, an unexplained supernatural element, a disappointing let down… all we need for this to take place in Maine and we got a Stephen king story!!!
"In my mind. I can see them." I'm beginning to sense a relation between this movie and The Ring.
Blair Witch 2: Welcome to the Electric Boogaloo.
This title makes just as much sense as “Book of Shadows”
The goth chick looks like Morticia Addams
23:00
Oh THAT was the initial intent.
That’s what the Director wanted!
But then Artisan went “FUCK THAT METALOGICAL BULLSHIT JUST EDIT BLOOD N GORE!!!”
#ReleaseTheDirectorsCut
Blair witch...South Park did it better
SOUTH PARK DID IT BETTER, SOUTH PARK DID IT BETTER!
SIMPSONS DID IT.
8:36 Hey, heeeeeeeeeyyy! World War II was a goodass sequel. It far surpassed its predecessor with how much damage, shock value and just messing shit up reeeeeaall good in general. 10/10 can't wait for the trequal :)
Wait for the 3rd one
great , i recommended the good bad flicks video that explains how the film was screwed by the studio too....
The studio did the usual interference bullshit and added the murders and recut the movie. There is a better director version.
Maybe I'm wrong, I don't have any experience with these things, but they were high and drunk, is it really that surprising that they don't remember something?
Yeah no you'd remember killing someone even high weed isnt that strong lol
4:46 OMS ITS EBONY DARK’NESS DEMENTIA RAVEN WAY!!!!!!11
What crap did she write again?
Patrick Kelmer That’s exactly what I was thinking XD
But where are Draco Malfoy and Gerard Way!?!
At least Kim was cool, the same can't be said for a narcissistic emo like Ebony.
@@valtiansrevenge86ed HOW DARE U INSULT EBONY U PREP!!!!!!11111one
Haven't watched the whole review but I watched a making of and they actually inserted things that change in the middle of the scenes
For example
In one of the scenes there is a bunch of lockers and as the camera pans around a bed(could be wrong on the bed) the locker have a pentagram suddenly appears made from the plastic handles around the locks (if you find the scene your see it)
ohhh man I remember watching this and it leaving such a bad taste in my mouth I had to go watch a real movie
I think the "Book of Shadows" is some kind of Wiccan 'Necronomicon' like book, but since it isn't in the movie, why put it in the title, dood?
I SHALL DO THE GERMAN DAHNCE FOR YOU IT'S FUN AND GAY AND TRALALA!
I love Chef Aid, one of my favorite episodes.
Blair witch wasnt the first found footage film that goes to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST FACES OF DEATH AND LAST BROADCAST OK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was the very first Nostalgia Critic review I ever saw right after watching both Blair Witch movies back to back.
Ohh the nostalgia 😁
Nostalgia for NC reviews... that's so sweet! Critic, you are truly loved!
That's mistake in the tape called magnetic transfer it happens when a film is filmed over or is store incorrectly
I had to shake my head at the dueling tour guides. I'm a professional tour guide, and we don't through down with our competitors! :D
see here's the thing witches/wiccans have never had a good image. at least we aren't perceived as terrorists. yet.
We found a witch may we burn her? Couldn't resist.
Blessed be.
When that interrogation scene started I legit just thought it was one of his cutaway joke clips from another movie for a minute 😬
Yay
More copyright
Reminder: The final cut of this was a butcher cut by Artisan. The director actually wanted to satire the phenomenon created by the first movie. The opening song was supposed to be "Witchcraft" by Frank Sinatra.
So it was supposed to be funny?
18:30 Perfect time to use Phelous' "I GOTTA SHOTGUN!!!"
Does anyone ever notice that reviews like these are more entertaining than the movies themselves?
I still remember seeing the VHS cover for Blair Witch at Blockbusters.
This movie sucked but it did have a cute redhead topless and I know what your thinking. Yes I was 12 years old watching this on showtime in 2001.
HECK YEAH!!!!
I like how in the "I Swear to Christ" scene, Miss Piggy nods like it does sound like her
19:19 The ONE redeeming thing in this movie....hot goth chick.
This was one of those films that just got completely dumped on from day 1 but honestly was a perfectly serviceable late 90s/ early 2000s horror movie.
Really, you take 'Blair Witch' out of the title and no one would have complained about it. In fact it would probably be one of those relatively forgotten movies folks would bring up with fond memories.
It wasn't quite dumped- it did do pretty good opening weekend, making back it's relatively low budget (this is Artisan we're talking about), but promptly sank like a stone amidst the mediocre reviews.
Love this Christmas film
“Keep it Church” - Nostalgia Critic, probably last year
11:07 my favorite part of the review
Thank you for re-uploading this one guys
Doesn't help when the goth chick looks like she's a knock off of Morticia Addams. I was actually wondering where the knock off Gomez was.
Also what do you think about Mary Poppins returns please let me know
Yeah, when's Mary Poppin's Returns coming!
@@LordMoldoma friday
@@devinhoward1242 It better be
never knew sher left, but WHY why all these damn remakes? is there not TWO brain cells to rub together in hollyweird to come up with a new idea?
I'm Mary Poppins ya'll. Sorry. I think they should've just left the classic Mary Poppins be. It didn't need a sequel ☕
“Blair Witch Origins: Pumpkin Juice”!
This movie is why studios need to stop interfering with the director's vision. The original movie was actually very clever; it was about how the Blair Witch phenomenon was going too far and could drive people to do crazy things. The characters were all stereotypes on purpose, because they were supposed to represent certain real life groups: the wiccans who the movie offended, the goths, the people who made money off it, etc. But then the studio butchered it.
The phenomenon was so big they even blamed The Blair Witch for Columbine.
Happy Halloween?
Copyright
Reupload
I still can't believe you have to go through all these 'copyright claims'. I think big youtuber lawsuit is bound to happen at some point soon....
4:09 - This must be the shit that got Michael burned...
Man this had me confused till I found out it's a reupload
Sucks that he had to remove the X-Files theme.
Tell me why I actually had to pause the video to laugh hysterically at "It's a drive by hooting"
I love the moment when this beard guy shouts "How did u know!?" just as if he was trying to beat our fabled Nicolas Cage in his majestic "The Wicker Man" overacting
who else would like to see AVP Blair Witch cross-over?
I can't remember being as furious with a character as I am with the pregnant woman who starts drinking and smoking.
How would you feel about a Diddy Kong Racing sequel that added characters from My Hero Academia, Little Witch Academia, Kirby, The Amazing World of Gumball, **Persona 5,** Family Guy, Sonic, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Digimon Tamers, The Simpsons, Invader Zim, Crash Bandicoot and RWBY with Haruko from FLCL, Hat Kid, Popuko and Pipmi from Pop Team Epic, Bomberman, Doom Slayer, Beavis and Butthead also being there?
Kirby gets pushed as a second Protagonist to go along with Diddy Kong.
Imagine racing against Akko with Izuku, shooting a missile at Gumball, Gumball, Izuku, and Akko smoking pot with their friends, throwing an oil slick at Ren, Ryuji using a bat to knock opponents sideways, Ann using her whip to whip a nearby rival, Yusuke asking Momo if she’d be painted nude, Fregley putting his foot in his mouth to distract the other drivers so they can crash, Futaba showing everyone rule 34, Makoto dodging bombs that Bomberman planted on the race track, etc.
How many times have y'all needed to re-upload this now? I've lost count.
It is very interesting to know that this movie is NOT the film the director wanted to make. He was forced by distributors to film scenes that had nothing to do with his original vision. What he envisioned was far more detailed and nuanced, not this crappy mainstream one we have today. The title "Book of Shadows" never existed in the director's vision, for example. Look up: "GoodBadFlicks Blair Witch 2".
Donald Arteaga I’ve watched that video tons of times. It’s disappointing that the studio butchered the original vision and made a generic and disjointed piece of schlock
One of my favourite reviews :D