So far, all that had been known about “The Woods” is that it’s the latest from Adam Wingard, the director of “You’re Next” and “The Guest” —otherwise, any other info has been kept completely under wraps. But now, taking a page from the book of J.J. Abrams, the first trailer has dropped, and it’s a heckuva tease.
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Soundtracked to a super slowed down, creepy version of The Police‘s “Every Breath You Take” (btw, this trope in movie trailers is getting seriously played out), the trailer doesn’t indicate much in the way of plot, but maybe it doesn’t need it: A group of people go into the woods, and shit gets real and very, very scary. It’s probably safe to say this is the kind of movie you don’t to know much about going in.
Starring James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Valorie Curry, Corbin Reid and Wes Robinson, “The Woods” opens on September 16th. Watch the trailer above.
Cover songs in trailers are considered a trope now?
Anyway, hard to get invested in this (yet, at least). Hopefully the next trailer they release will forego the hype blurb route and offer up something of real interest.
I’m curious about the nature of these blurbs…so was the film pre-screened for these critics and they pre-approved it and then gave quote without writing an article? Doesn’t that seem bizarre? Searching for those quotes on the internet nothing comes up. It might be innocent but it seems like something an executive producer would do…it suggests a blurred line between critic and creative team member that at the very least breaks the norm for most genres…
Book jacket blurbs are often not from reviews but from requests made to sympathetic, notable parties who are asked to read the book and provide quotes. In the publishing industry, it is very much a case of mutual back scratching.
Perhaps they used that as their model.