‘Exists’ Trailer: ‘Blair Witch’ Director’s Bigfoot Found Footage Movie
1999’sThe Blair Witch Projectwasn’t the first film ever to utilize the found-footage format, but it definitely went a long way toward popularizing it. Since then we’ve had more found-footage horror movies can we can count, and it’s only very recently that the trend has shown any sign of slowing down.
All of which means that any film in the format released today is gonna have to work a bit harder to feel fresh. Even if it’s by the guy who helped make the subgenre what it is in the first place,Eduardo Sánchez. TheBlair Witchdirector is back this fall with the found-footage Bigfoot movieExists, and it feels, well, like a lot of other things that have copiedBlair Witchin the past 15 years. Watch theExiststrailer after the jump.
Applehas theExiststrailer in HD.
The Bigfoot angle is admittedly unusual. Other than that, everything here smacks of “been there, done that,” from the shaky camerawork to the cabin-in-the-woods setting.Existscould still end up being an enjoyably competent execution of a familiar formula, but from here it doesn’t look likely to deliver anything truly new.
The five attractive young people at the center of this particular horror show are played bySamuel Davis,Denise Williamson,Roger Edwards,Chris Osborn, andDora Madison Burge(a.k.a. Becky fromFriday Night Lights).Brian Steeleplays the Sasquatch bent on vengeance.ExistsopensOctober 24.
For five friends, it was a chance for a summer getaway— a weekend of camping in the Texas Big Thicket. But visions of a carefree vacation are shattered with an accident on a dark and desolate country road. In the wake of the accident, a bloodcurdling force of nature is unleashed—something not exactly human, but not completely animal— an urban legend come to terrifying life…and seeking murderous revenge.
