{"id":719,"date":"2016-08-21T22:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T02:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/?p=719"},"modified":"2016-08-21T23:46:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T03:46:24","slug":"new-trailer-blair-witch-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/2016\/08\/21\/new-trailer-blair-witch-a-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"New Trailer: &#8216;BLAIR WITCH&#8217; a sequel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/blair-witch-poster-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-720 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/blair-witch-poster-2016-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"blair witch poster 2016\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/blair-witch-poster-2016-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/blair-witch-poster-2016.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>In 1999, I went to a 9pm, opening night screening of a film everyone thought was real. Perhaps one of the earliest ad campaigns shrouded in mystery besides <em>The Fifth Element<\/em>, <em>The Blair Witch Project<\/em> scared the ever living daylights out of me. As the film came to it&#8217;s horrifying end, everyone screamed and stampeded to the exit. I genuinely believed that I would be crushed trying to get to the car. There was no talking during the less than 5 minute drive home, I was terrified, and slept with the lights on. Only one other horror film had ever had that effect on me and that was <em>The Ring<\/em> (The American remake). This September, we thought we were seeing a film called <em>The Woods<\/em>, but we&#8217;ve experienced a bait and switch. At this year&#8217;s San Diego Comic Con it was announced that <em>The Woods<\/em> is actually <em>Blair Witch<\/em>, a sequel to the original. This is going to be the third installment of this franchise. The first sequel <em>Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2<\/em> came out to pretty poor reviews in 2000, but great box office success. I actually missed it in the theater but was one of many who purchased the DVD, which included<span style=\"color: #252525\">\u00a0the &#8220;Secret of Esrever&#8221; featurette. This was where you&#8217;d play certain scenes backwards to experience hidden clues. Massively clever marketing, but it was definitely too little too late. Rumors of a direct sequel to the first film have been circulating for years. I was on board with one of the ideas, which was a prequel, or the origin story of the title character. In fact, I thought that perhaps the release of \u00a0<em>The Witch<\/em> this year might actually be this very film. I guess I&#8217;m still waiting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #252525\">Please don&#8217;t disappoint me. I have some high expectations. Check out the latest trailer for <em>BLAIR WITCH<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/girSv9UH_V8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was one movie responsible for starting the &#8220;found footage&#8221; phenomenon. Since then we&#8217;ve seen films like REC, Quarantine, V\/H\/S, and the Paranormal Activity franchise explode. Can anything live up the original? A new trailer might change your mind. Ladies and gentlemen, Blair Witch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,1],"tags":[430,435,78,187,436,114,431,432,434,433,163],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gag-reflex","category-selling-scary","category-uncategorized","tag-blair-witch","tag-book-of-shadows-blair-witch-2","tag-horror","tag-poster","tag-prequel","tag-sequel","tag-the-blair-witch-project","tag-the-fifth-element","tag-the-ring","tag-the-woods","tag-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/08\/blair-witch-poster-2016.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awfj.org\/i-scream-you-scream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}