In our Seance director interview, Simon Barrett talks about getting behind the camera for his first feature and his wild Star Wars idea.
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Director Adam Wingard clarified that he and co-writer Simon Barrett are making a Face/Off sequel, not a remake as had been previously reported.
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Adam Wingard will direct and co-write a remake of John Woo's action classic Face/Off.
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Many have assumed the Blair Witch ending finally shows us the titular supernatural force in the form of some kind of creature, but apparently it's not her.
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In our Blair Witch interview, we speak with director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett on how they reinvented a classic.
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Before the horror follow-up comes next month, the Blair Witch producer talks sequels, remakes and why original movies have an uphill battle to get noticed.
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Watch the first Blair Witch TV spot. Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett's horror sequel picks up 20 years after the 1999 found footage classic.
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Read our Blair Witch review. Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett made a surprise sequel to the 1999 horror film that started the found footage craze.
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The Guest opened in a handful of theaters last weekend, and to celebrate that Hobo With a Shotgun director Jason Eisener cut together a really spectacular short trailer for the film. It's a tight blast of action, color and music that perfectly captures the vibe of the film, in which Dan Stevens plays a very…
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Update from editor Peter Sciretta: The following review was published by Germain Lussier on January 19th 2014 from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The movie is out in theaters this week: The films by director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett always have one thing in common. They are obviously influenced by an intense passion…
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Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett have boarded the I Saw the Devil remake, the 2010 revenge thriller by Kim Jee-woon. They're the You're Next and Guest guys.
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Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey is ready to smash expectations as a kick ass, terminator action star in The Guest out September. Watch The Guest trailer here
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Watch The Guest trailer, from You're Next director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett. Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) leads the hit Sundance thriller.
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A family mourns the loss of their fallen soldier son. They find solace when a mysterious stranger, a fellow soldier and friend of their son, comes to visit. And if this was a movie by a normal set of filmmakers, we'd have a pretty good idea of what happens next. Coming from You're Next team…
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The actors in Joe Swanberg's movies have, at times, been friends of his in filmmaking, just as he has acted in other directors' films. For 24 Exposures, Swanberg has Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett in front of the lens -- they're the director/writer pair who are responsible for films such as You’re Next and A Horrible Way To Die,…
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I liked the original V/H/S because it was a small, weird collection of shorts. The sequel, V/H/S/2, is bigger and much more bold than the first, with bigger scope and some ideas that are far more weird. It doesn't have quite the same sense of intimate disquiet, but it has some much more monstrous action.…
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Anthologies of any kind run the risk of unevenness, just because they're composed of so many disparate parts. But the red-band trailer for V/H/S/2, at least, looks consistently terrifying. It's two minutes of great, gory scares, with tons of blood and a smattering of nudity -- which means, yes, that it's very much NSFW. Watch…
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Almost two years ago, Toronto Film Festival and Fantastic Fest audiences made a lot of noise about the bloody home-invasion thriller You're Next. Now everyone gets to see what those few people were talking about. Director Adam Wingard (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S) and screenwriter Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die) have come…
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Austin's biggest media festival, SXSW, is coming up in about five weeks, and the film portion of the fest has unveiled a list of films that will play in the midnight and shorts categories. Running March 8-16, the film portion of SXSW has been growing into one of the country's premiere film festivals. The biggest…
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Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett just locked in their next project, an action-thriller called The Guest. Barrett will write, Wingard will direct, and it'll focus on a solider who comes home and becomes connected to the family of one of his fallen friends. Issues from his past then put everyone in danger. This will mark…
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Twenty-six letters, twenty-six directors, twenty-six ways to die. That's the simple premise behind The ABC's of Death, the crazy anthology horror film that is available on demand today, and will be in theaters on March 8. Being as today is the first day the public can see this film (which we reviewed here) twenty-six different…
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Whether you like to be scared, grossed out or just made to scream at the top of your lungs, you're going to love S-VHS. The film, a sequel to 2012's VHS, once again is an horror anthology, loosely linked by the story of a two people watching random VHS tapes, all of which include some…
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The horror anthology is alive and ready for round two. V/H/S 2, a sequel to this year's horror hit V/H/S, has just been announced. The film will retain the same producing team (including the people behind Bloody Disgusting) and at least one of the original directors (You're Next director Adam Wingard), but most of the creative roster…
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It's a good week to be Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard. The writer/director combo who've collaborated on A Horrible Way To Die, You're Next and sections of V/H/S and The ABC's of Death got a release date for their latest feature, have another film hitting theaters soon, a third playing the Toronto International Film Festival. Now…
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Adam Wingard's You're Next is one of those horror movies with potential to change the genre. At least, that was the sentiment coming out of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival where the film premiered. After a heated bidding war, Lionsgate acquired the festival hit and subsequently shut it down, limiting it to just one…
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Indie horror director Ti West tends to be divisive. I think that's in part because he has a flair for self-promotion and also because his most well-known film, The House of the Devil, was a very slow burn of a horror/thriller that featured an '80s aesthetic, which led to accusations of pretension and a certain…
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Though Fantastic Fest still has three days left packed with movies, the best of the best have been revealed. Monday night, the awards for the best films, actors, writers and directors of the festival were announced in several different categories. Some of the winners are films I've already reviewed and loved. The Audience Award went…
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