Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 – a steFANedit
 a TRUE FANEDIT by steFANedit Takes the sequel to The Blair Witch Project back to what it was supposed to be by restoring as much as possible the director’s original intentions and stripping out the studio’s forced changes. member ratings: |
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INTENTION:
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Listening to the commentary track, Joe Berlinger (director) mentions quite a few times that he is not happy with the finished cut of his sequel to The Blair Witch Project (Book of Shadows: Blair witch 2) and talks about how the studio forced him to make changes he didn’t want. But a director’s cut doesn’t look promising considering that the movie bombed in theaters and is now viewed as one of the most hated sequels ever.
Joe Berlinger’s Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is more of a “fuck you” to the original movie and a comment about what can happen when you blur the line between fiction and reality. Not a direct sequel but more of a standalone film, a movie about the first movie. And now, for the first time, watch it unfold in a similar way Joe Berlinger director’s cut did.
EDIT DETAILS:
“I got some pretty cool editing equipment at my house”
Now the three part structure can be seen more clearly:
The Satire
The Horror Movie
The Social Commentary
This was accomplished by taking out the non-linear way the story was told in the theatrical cut and making it chronological. I also deleted the Coffin Rock Massacre 100% and took out most of the mental hospital sequences. I also changed some things that IMO makes for a better movie.
CUTLIST:
Cut: Artisan Entertainment logo.
Added: A steFANedit.
Added: A little Heather Donahue moment that was in the leaked script for bw2.
Cut: Hospital Sequence.
Changed: Frank Sinatra – Witchcraft now plays during the credit sequence.
Cut: Gore footage. The whole Coffin Rock Massacre footage is now 100% gone from the entire movie.
Changed: All the interrogation is now at the end of the movie.
Changed: After credits sequence we open up on the van arriving at the cemetery.
Added: Produced by…Written by…Directed by…
Changed/Cut: the rest of the scenes inside the van (before we arrive at the store) now play out in different order and some things are cut.
Cut: Everything at the store except:
Kim
So where are we going first?
Jeff
The ruins of Rustin Parr’s house.
Cut:
Erica
The karma’s a bitch.
Cut:
Tristen
You make her sound helpless. I thought
witches summon powerful energy?
Erica
We can. But we still have to eat, shit
and die like the rest of you. We just
look good doing it.
Cut:
Erica
May I have permission to take this leaf?
(beat)
Thank you.
Cut: Bad joke at the campfire.
Changed: When Erica talks into camera “…that’s a Christian concept” the footage is zoomed in, and zoomed out when Kim says “I hate nature”
Cut: Jeff talking to Erica about wanting to make a film about Wicca (the way of life).
Cut: Erica in a trance and Kim tonguing the camera (the part which isn’t POV).
Cut:
Tristen
Our work. Every word.
Cut:
Kim
Ripped? These things look like they
were bit off.
Cut: Some of Erica screaming back at Jeff.
Cut: Nurse and the ghost (Eileen Treacle) at the hospital.
Cut: Hospital flashback after Kim tells Jeff that “…you’re a long way from sane”
Cut: All the talk about Coffin Rock.
Cut/Changed: The ghost girl seen by Stephen on the bridge is now seen for a shorter amount of time and doesn’t disappear into thin air, but instead through POV.
Cut:
Erica
How come you’re the one who looks
like he’s having a breakdown?
Stephen
Look! I’m a little tense, all right?
Erica
Sorry.
Cut: Erica talking to Kim about the markings meaning that “…you have been touched by a witch”
Cut: Kim at the store, interacting with the guy on the floor and the crazy woman.
Cut: Rednecks throwing rocks.
Changed: Since the Coffin Rock Massacre footage now is 100% gone something had to cover up the few frames when Kim “fucks up the front fender” I added a few frames from “missing hours”
Cut: Kim acknowledging to Jeff that the kids she saw was “…the kids Rustin Parr killed”
Cut/ Added: Craven calling Jeff and tells him to “turn on your TV” and they find out at the 11:00 News that the people they were fighting with in the woods where found murdered at Coffin Rock. Instead now we have some more “lost hours” footage before the owl crashes through the window.
Added: a short “lost hours” clip showing what Jeff is thinking. Giving him something else to think about now when the “11:00 News”scene is gone.
Cut/ Added: Some of what Jeff say is deleted because it refers to what they saw on TV. Footage of Tristen is inserted and flipped so she now appears to look the other way, watching Jeff talk.
Added: When Jeff accusing Erica for being a witch “I tell you what’s going on here” we slowly zoom in on Jeff.
Cut: Shot of Tristen (it’s now used earlier).
Cut: Kim saying to Jeff to smoke the whole joint “because you’re not totally psycho yet”
Added: Clips to illustrate the passing of time.
Cut: Stephen seeing a little girl on the other side of the bridge after it has collapse.
Added: Shot of phone ringing.
Changed: When Jeff looking through the peep-hole we now see another shot of the hospital footage instead of the Coffin Rock Massacre footage that was originally there.
Added: When Jeff opens the door for the last time and the dogs aren’t there we now hear the barking of the dog-alarm.
Cut:
Tristen
The little girl backwards…
Cut: Tristen hiding the tapes during “lost hours”
Cut: Tristen saying that “Tristen’s gone”
Cut:
Tristen
You wanna kill me?
(beat)
You can’t, can you, Kimmy?
Kim
I will rip your fucking head off!
Tristen
Then fucking do it!
Changed: The hanging scene re-scored.
Changed: The hanging scene re-cut.
Added: All the Interrogation footage at the end.
Changed: End credits music, now we have The Shining Theme mixed with The Blair Witch Project Theme which later fades into Poe – Haunted.
Cut: Artisan Entertainment logo.
Added: A steFANedit.
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Single Layer DVD
SPECIAL THANKS:
SPECIAL THANKS TO “Captain Khajiit”
-for helping me out with the overlapping frames issue
SPECIAL FEATURES
1.85 : 1 anamorphic widescreen
English 5.1 Surround Sound
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Deleted Scenes
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Source Material:
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
The Blair Witch Project
YouTube Video (Sunset Time Lapse HD)
Frank Sinatra – Witchcraft
The Cellar – Antonio Cora (aka The Blair Witch Project Theme)
Poe – Haunted
The Shinning Theme
Blair Witch 2 Original Movie Score by Carter Burwel
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Please check part 18.
Review by jamiemark — January 15, 2012 @ 4:00 pm
I always kind of preferred BW2 to the first film, despite obvious flaws. Listening to the director’s commentary actually made me like it a little less though, as I lamented the version of the film we didn’t get.
Thankfully, we finally do have it in the form of steFAN’s edit. Maybe not exactly what the director would have released if given the chance, but as close as you can possibly get with the material released.
Job well done on this one. Apart from a…questionable audio transition near the beginning and spelling the director’s name wrong (twice) there was very little to complain about. I didn’t care for two song choices, but that’s just personal taste, and hardly the kind of thing to hold against the edit.
Special mention goes to the finale, which was reworked very nicely.
Review by Uncanny Antman — January 16, 2012 @ 12:37 am
Just finished watching this. Very well done overall. There are a couple edits that could have been smoothed out. For instance, at the store in the beginning you kept only two lines of dialogue but it goes by so quickly that you probably could have just cut the entire scene and it would have played the same.
The new structure was excellent. Kudos to you for taking out all the quick cut interrogation scenes spread throughout and the over-the-top gore footage added in.
All in all, a really well done first time edit. I look forward to more steFANedits.
8/10
Review by Neglify — February 10, 2012 @ 11:31 pm