IFC Films and Shudder have picked up a new action horror film, Azrael. The film, which stars Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Femme), is now set for release this fall. Azrael was directed by E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills) and is written by Simon Barrett (You’re Next). The film takes place in a […]
Movie Review – V/H/S/94 (2021)
V/H/S/94, 2021. Directed by Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows, and Chloe Okuno. SYNOPSIS: A police S.W.A.T. team investigates a mysterious VHS tape and discovers a sinister cult that has pre-recorded material which uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. As much as horror anthologies have a tendency to be rather hit-and-miss affairs, the V/H/S franchise […]
Movie Review – Seance (2021)
Seance, 2021. Written and Directed by Simon Barrett. Starring Suki Waterhouse, Inanna Sarkis, Madisen Beaty, Ella-Rae Smith, Seamus Patterson, Marina Stephenson Kerr, Megan Best, Djouliet Amara, Jade Michael, and Stephanie Sy. SYNOPSIS: Camille, a young woman who arrives at the Edelvine Academy following one of the student’s untimely and violent death. It takes roughly five […]
Suki Waterhouse stars in trailer for boarding school horror Seance
RLJE and Shudder have released a trailer, poster and images for the upcoming horror Seance. The feature directorial debut of writer Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest, Blair Witch) and starring Suki Waterhouse (The Bad Batch), the film follows a group of friends at a prestigious girls’ school who fear they may have awakened a […]
Fede Alvarez, Jason Eisener and Simon Barrett developing techno thriller
THR is reporting that Fede Alvarez’s (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) new genre production company Bad Hombre has announced its first project, an as-yet-untitled techno thriller. Plot details on the film are being kept under wraps, but we do know that it has been scripted by Simon Barrett (The Guest, Blair Witch) and will be directed […]
Interview: Simon Barrett talks Blair Witch backlash, the challenges of writing a sequel and more
Luke Owen gets on the phone with writer Simon Barrett… Last year I spoke with Adam Wingard just a couple of months after his project The Woods had been revealed as a sequel to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project and a few weeks before the film was released [read that interview here]. At the time […]
Interview with Simon Barrett, screenwriter of Blair Witch
Flickering Myth’s Mark Bartlett chats with screenwriter Simon Barrett about Blair Witch… Director Adam Wingard’s surprise sequel Blair Witch is terrifying and something of a rebirth for the found footage format. It’s a welcome surprise and an excellent continuation of the lore established in the original Blair Witch Project. In this interview, writer Simon Barrett […]
Interview: Adam Wingard talks Blair Witch secrecy, the daunting task of making a sequel, hatred for Book of Shadows and more
Luke Owen gets on the phone with director Adam Wingard to discuss Blair Witch… It sort of took us all by surprise. Fans of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (who directed and wrote the tremendous You’re Next and even better The Guest) were waiting patiently for their next outing The Woods, and then at this […]
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett heading into The Woods for new horror
After last year’s acclaimed thriller The Guest, director Adam Wingard is heading back to the horror genre, signing on to direct The Woods for Lionsgate. The project has been penned by regular collaborator Simon Barrett, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the film “involves a group of college students on a camping trip who discover […]
