The most influential found-footage franchise of all time is being dragged out for another walk in the trees as Lionsgate has dated a fourth Blair Witch Project film for September 2027.
Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are steering the exciting new project; Film News Blitz’s RC Stacey follows the stick figures into the dark.
Here’s everything we know about the new ‘Blair Witch Project’
Lionsgate has officially announced that the next instalment in the Blair Witch Project franchise will creep into cinemas on 24 September 2027, marking the fourth film in the iconic series and the latest attempt to revive one of horror’s most influential properties.
This time, Lionsgate is placing its faith in the formidable partnership of Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, with Jason Blum and James Wan overseeing a new era for the franchise.
The move arrives as both outfits continue to dominate the genre, having recently celebrated major theatrical wins with Backrooms and Obsession, which together grossed north of $600 million worldwide this spring.
The new Blair Witch will be directed by Dylan Clark, the filmmaker behind acclaimed horror short Portrait of God and the latest wave of genre talent to leap from short-form work to studio features.
Chris Devlin penned the screenplay, which follows a family on a camping trip who begin vanishing one by one after hearing strange noises in the woods.
Producing duties fall to Blum and Roy Lee (Resident Evil, Weapons, The Ring), whilst original 1999 stars Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, alongside founding filmmakers Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick and Gregg Hale, are all aboard as executive producers.
It’s the fourth entry in a lineage that began with Myrick and Sánchez’s groundbreaking The Blair Witch Project in 1999, continued through Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 in 2000, and Adam Wingard’s Blair Witch in 2016, the latter famously shot under the secret title The Woods before being unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con.
The original, produced on a shoestring and marketed as genuine recovered footage, became a cultural phenomenon and one of the most profitable films ever made, taking nearly $250 million worldwide and defining found-footage horror for a generation.
For now, fans can ready themselves to head back into the woods when Blair Witch arrives on 24 September 2027.
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