The movie’s final section, a variation on a haunted house, becomes a frenzy.
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Along the way they pick up two locals (Wes Robinson, Valorie Curry) who are self-styled experts on local legends.Įven with modern technology like a flying drone and ear-piece cameras with GPS, the movie relies on the simple suspense of flashlights piercing the darkness of nighttime trees, loud noises or the terror of what’s around that corner or down that hole. So with his friends (Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid) he plans to go into those same woods. In Wingard and Barrett’s telling, James (James Allen McCune), whose sister was of one of the original trio, wants to find out what happened. (The new film also neatly sidesteps the widely disdained 2000 sequel “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.”) That film, about three young people who disappeared while attempting to unravel the mysteries of a supposedly haunted woods, was a smash, considered one of the first hit movies of the online age and also largely responsible for kicking off the found-footage horror trend. In this era of prequels and reboots and movies that do everything they can to avoid being a sequel or remake, there is something refreshing about the fact the “Blair Witch” is an unabashedly genuine follow-up to the 1999 original, “The Blair Witch Project.” “I’m really excited to watch this movie with you guys,” said Wingard, “because when you make a horror movie, you make it to watch it with an audience.”
Wingard and Barrett came out to briefly introduce the film. Their next film, “The Guest,” played the festival’s midnight section as well. While at the festival, they were so into the midnight crowds that they made “You’re Next” with that audience in mind. Their first collaboration, “A Horrible Way to Die” played a different section of the festival in 2010.
If a pairing between movie and audience could be engineered in a lab, Sunday night’s Midnight Madness screening of “Blair Witch” might be the resultīefore the screening, the festival’s Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes ran down the festival’s history with director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett.
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