Horror Movie 'The Woods' Gets a Spooky Debut Trailer
Adam Wingard may not be a household name to casual movie fans. But the director has carved out a solid position in the genre world thanks to a host of recent indie hits, including 2011โs house-party-gone-awry slasher movie Youโre Next and 2014โs John Carpenter-esque The Guest (not to mention his contributions to the horror anthologies V/H/S and The ABCs of Death). And from the looks of his latest, his mainstream breakout could arrive this September, when he delivers an all-out horror experience courtesy of Lionsgate.
Bolstered by phenomenal advance word-of-mouth (Time Out New Yorkโs Joshua Rothkopf recently tweeted, โYou may think youโre ready for THE WOODS but youโre not.โ), The Woods is a found-footage effort about a group of college kids who embark on a camping trip, only to discover that theyโre not the only ones in the forest. That set-up sounds pretty familiar, and the filmโs camcorder-filtered style suggests a resemblance to the subgenreโs granddaddy, 1999โs The Blair Witch Project.
Nonetheless, as confirmed by its debut trailer above โ which offers little in the way of concrete plot details, but provides a great sense of the actionโs ominous atmosphere โ thereโs undoubtedly far more to The Woods than merely rehashing old scary-movie conventions. Between Wingardโs pedigree and his recent Twitter proclamation that โThis is my first full on โsh-t your pantsโ horror film,โ itโs quickly shaping up to be one of the fallโs must-see efforts for those looking to get scared silly.
The Woods creeps into theaters on Sept.16.