![]() ![]() ![]() In what can only be described as a communal “holy shit” moment, the entire theater gasped as a secret years in the making was revealed: this was a Blair Witch movie. Then there was a reference to a local legend-the legend of the Blair Witch. The brief image of a man, frozen stiff as a board facing a corner, flashed onscreen. A dizzying, horrifying opening sequence of handheld footage opened on someone running for their life through a dilapidated house. Then the opening scrawl, sans title card, mentioned a mysterious DV tape found in the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland. Red and black posters for The Woods lined the multiplex walls, and a giant display of the eerie The Woods graphic was stationed in the center of the lobby.Īs the lights dimmed in the packed theater, I was still primed for a run of the mill horror movie experience. Fans of Wingard and horror aficionados alike were actually legitimately salivating over the faux movie, looking forward to the uncanny way Wingard subverts any genre he traffics in (see V/H/S/2 for a deconstruction of found footage watch You’re Next to see the home invasion flick flipped on its ear).Īrriving at a theater slightly off the Comic-Con trail to see what I expected to be The Woods felt, at first, like a typical screening experience. The Woods came complete with its own trailer and promotional material. ![]() Forget Marvel and DC’s superhero stables-the shocker of the year is that there’s actually a proper sequel to The Blair Witch Project.ĭirected by Adam Wingard ( You’re Next, The Guest), the sequel, titled Blair Witch, was initially marketed as a mysterious found footage horror flick called The Woods. Last weekend at Comic-Con, the micro-budget horror movie that spawned an entire genre of found footage fear returned with a vengeance-out of nowhere. ![]()
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