Horror New The Blair Witch Project Movie Finds Director

[Kane52630]

New The Blair Witch Project Movie Finds Director

According to Production Weekly (via Bloody Disgusting), independent filmmaker Oliver Park has been tapped to helm the untitled Blair Witch sequel. Filming is expected to begin in late summer or fall of this year.

Park is no stranger to the horror genre, as the director of films like the short Still, A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio, and The Offering – along with an episode of Strange Events. However, the untitled found footage movie marks his first project with a major studio.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I don’t really know where you can take this? Prequel? I didn’t see that reboot/sequel they did a few years back, but even that didn’t seem to restart this.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Honestly, I found the first one a letdown (although the marketing - including the accompanying 'documentary' Curse of the Blair Witch - was excellent), the second one okay, and the third really poor. It's a franchise that's never lived up to it's hype and potential as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Luigi]

Sure, why not?

 

[3rdstone]

Honestly, I found the first one a letdown (although the marketing - including the accompanying 'documentary' Curse of the Blair Witch - was excellent), the second one okay, and the third really poor. It's a franchise that's never lived up to it's hype and potential as far as I'm concerned.

Agree totally, even though I don't recall watching any of the sequels. The marketing was fun, the concept felt intresting - but the film itself was a bit underwhelming.

 

[Kane52630]

The original was definitely a product of its time and it really worked at the time and is so influential, but I thought the Adam Wingard movie delivered on it's promises.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

The Adam Wingard movie sucked donkey nards and completely missed the point hopefully the new guy gets it and can do something unique with it and can keep the ****ing drones out of it. I still want a director's cut of Blair Witch 2.
problem with The Blair Witch Project is it relied on supplemental material to tell the whole story which doesn't really work as a film. The ending literally makes no sense without the companion documentary. It's a movie I've come around on over the years. When I saw it as a kid, I hated it but I rewatched it with while we were dating and it finally clicked with me.

 

[StarLord]

Blumhouse and Lionsgate Join Forces for Brand New ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Movie!

Twenty five years after the release of the original genre-changing classic, Lionsgate and Blumhouse announced out of CinemaCon today that they will partner on the development and production of a new The Blair Witch Project movie as the first film in a multi-picture pact with Blumhouse...

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[Captain Tired]

Honestly, I found the first one a letdown (although the marketing - including the accompanying 'documentary' Curse of the Blair Witch - was excellent), the second one okay, and the third really poor. It's a franchise that's never lived up to it's hype and potential as far as I'm concerned.

Gotta say, seeing someone call the second one okay is a breath of fresh air for me.

 

[Captain Tired]

The Adam Wingard movie sucked donkey nards and completely missed the point hopefully the new guy gets it and can do something unique with it and can keep the ****ing drones out of it. I still want a director's cut of Blair Witch 2.
problem with The Blair Witch Project is it relied on supplemental material to tell the whole story which doesn't really work as a film. The ending literally makes no sense without the companion documentary. It's a movie I've come around on over the years. When I saw it as a kid, I hated it but I rewatched it with while we were dating and it finally clicked with me.

In what way doesn't it make sense? Rustin Parr is said by the locals to have been driven insane and/or possessed by the witch. He subsequently abducted and murdered pairs of children, making one stand in the corner while he killed the other. All of that is said in the movie. The film ends with Mike standing in the corner, seemingly possessed or otherwise controlled in some way, implying that Heather is about to be murdered and with Mike obviously next. No supplementary material required, as far as I can tell.

 

[AverageMan]

Nothing they do will come close to the original. Just leave it alone and appreciate the original for what it is - the best found footage film and one of the best horror films.

 

[StarLord]

The first movie was so singular that all of these sequels, prequels and remakes feel highly unnecessary, the Wingard one in particular was just the blandest thing imaginable, much like the dreadful American The Grudge movie from 2020. Blair Witch never had to be a franchise, there's a beauty to the simplicity and mystery of the original film.

But saying that, I'm open to whatever this turns out to be. If it's good, it's good. Look at The Omen, just rescued from decades of bad movies and TV.

The Grudge was truly awful. Had the worst colour grading too, like dark urine shade of yellow.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[DarkKnight88]

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

The Grudge was truly awful. Had the worst colour grading too, like dark urine shade of yellow.

The Grudge as a series, even in Japan, never made sense. The curse is so dumb. Why attack innocent people who've done nothing wrong just because "the person who's ghost is haunting them died in a powerful rage"? Kayako and the meowing kid shouldn't be the ones attacking people; the husband who did all the murdering should!

 

[Kane52630]