![]() ![]() Wingard and Barrett aren't trying to reinvent the wail here, which is mostly a good thing. It premièred to screams of joy in TIFF's Midnight Madness program this week and it's now in regular theatres, beginning with Thursday night sneaks. Two horror collaborators, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett (The Guest, You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die), announce they've been secretly working on a sequel to "Blair Witch," called just that, with the blessing of Myrick and Sanchez, now executive producers. Franchise hopes dissolved faster than the Wicked Witch of the West hit by a bucket of water.įast-forward 16 years. They foolishly sold the sequel rights to documentarian Joe Berlinger, who set about deconstructing the first movie with the DOA Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows in 2000. ![]() The film was imitated by many but not by original writers/directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. In this latter category we can place "The Blair Witch Project', the 1999 woodlands horror phenom that sparked the "found footage" movie genre and haunted many a dream and camping trip. Many myths are worth busting, such as just about anything that comes out Donald Trump's mouth.Ī few are worth preserving, if only for nostalgic reasons. ![]()
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