Parker stars as Turner alongside Gabrielle Union, Armie Hammer, and Aja Naomi King. The film tells the true story of Nat Turner, who led a slave revolt in Virginia. Now that it’s Wingard/Barrett’s Blair Witch? I’m really excited. (September 16) - Matt SingerĪt Sundance all anyone could talk about was Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, which got multiple standing ovations and marked the biggest sale in the festival’s history.
I was interested to see this one when it was still just a Wingard/Barrett jam called The Woods. The question then becomes: Is Blair Witch a movie worthy of the original Blair Witch? If nothing else, they put the right team in place for an interesting film director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett have collaborated on outstanding indie horror flicks like You’re Next and The Guest.
It was a publicity stunt worthy of the original Blair Witch, which spent a good portion of its own marketing campaign trying to deceive the public into believing it was actual documentary footage of three missing backpackers. When the lights went down at the world premiere of The Woods at Comic-Con, the audience had no idea they were going to be the first to discover one of the most impressive secrets in recent movie history: The Woods was in fact a sequel to the 1999 film that launched the found-footage genre, The Blair Witch Project.
