In the latest of our dispatches from the 2016 Toronto Film Festival Stefan Pape interviews Director Adam Wingard & Writer Simon Barrett for the next chapter of the Blair Witch story.
Filmed under the title of ‘The Woods’ the film was recently revealed to be a revisiting of the Blair Witch mythology, something that the little-seen Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows attempted to do, with far less success.
The sequel to The Blair Witch Project stars James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, and Corbin Reid and is a visceral horror, with some neat expansion of the mythology while delivering an intense experience.
After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his sister’s experiences in the demonic woods of the Blair Witch, James and a group of friends head to the forest in search of his lost sibling.
They talk about keeping the movie a secret, working on the legacy and what audiences can expect. Here’s the interview,
