It felt like it was about time for a Blair Witch sequel, Barrett said. (They did take liberties in creating the rest of the place.) So that’s what the new film focuses on while also being different: For example, Barrett plays with the concept of temporal reality in some key sequences, yet the iconic basement of the old house in Blair Witch is completely accurate to the original. But the 2000 sequel Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 “never got back there” in building on the mythology, Wingard said. “Adam and I didn’t know it wasn’t real,” Barrett joked. Wingard and Barrett both were big fans of the original Wingard saw it six times in the theater. “I think they just thought they were auditioning for the worst Blair Witch ripoff ever." While the main subject of the first film is 'being lost in the woods', this. The film completely ignores the second film and is filmed in Found Footage style like the first film.
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“It was almost like a Star Wars-level secrecy process,” said producer Keith Calder.ĭuring casting and before the film’s 34-day shoot in Vancouver, none of the actors knew the real nature of the project, Barrett said. Blair Witch (formerly marketed under the faux-title, The Woods) is a 2016 found-footage horror film which serves as the third installment in the Blair Witch film series and a direct sequel to The Blair Witch Project. He found Blair Witch the most difficult film he’s ever directed, partly because of the necessity of hiding its true identity from everyone at Lionsgate and even from the actors before they were officially cast.
“We wanted an experience like a haunted hayride through the Blair Witch woods,” Wingard said in a post-screening discussion. Overall, I'd say Blair Witch Project was more immersive (especially in 1999), but Blair Witch is.
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It makes no attempts to convince the viewer of its authenticity and instead aims to be a very loud, jump scare filled movie that excites the audience. Some familiar eerie wooden totems start showing up, and things go awry quickly. Blair Witch (which is a sequel, not a remake) is a found footage movie made for modern audiences. James (James Allen McCune) thinks he sees his sister - who disappeared in that first doomed mission into the woods - in a YouTube video and gathers friends to go back to the spooky house and see if she’s OK. Going back to the found-footage roots of the original 1999 film, Blair Witch features a new group of college kids going into the legendarily creepy Black Hills Forest in Burkittsville, Md. 16), the latest from the filmmaking team of director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett ( You’re Next, The Guest). The marketing switcheroo happened at a screening Friday night at Comic-Con for the newly retitled Blair Witch (in theaters Sept. SAN DIEGO - A funny thing happened on the way to the horror film The Woods hitting theaters: It turned into a sequel to The Blair Witch Project.
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