The Woods Trailer Claims To Be The Scariest Horror Movie Ever

We're already well accustomed to horror trailers promising the film in question will be the scariest thing we've ever seen - but this first trailer for The Woods, the latest from director Adam Wingard (The Guest, You're Next) is something else.

Take a look for yourself...

The trailer offers very, very little beyond the fact that it centres on some people going into the woods - but with review quotes like "a nightmare of classic proportions," "a truly terrifying cinematic experience" and "a new beginning for horror films," what else do they need to sell it?

It's easy to feel dubious about a new horror that arrives with this much hyperbole, particularly on learning that it's also a found footage movie, a format which would seem to have been truly done to death in the last decade. Even so, it's hard for even the more casual horror fan not to at least feel a little curious as to whether or not it's as scary as they say. Clever marketing, that.

Director Wingard, whose filmography also includes V/H/S and A Horrible Way To Die (and will soon helm the US live-action adaptation of manga Death Note), has long since proven himself worthy of our attention - and if he can indeed breathe new life into found footage, who's to say what he can't do?

The young cast of The Woods includes James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Valorie Curry, Corbin Reid, and Wes Robinson. It's in US cinemas on September 16, from Lionsgate (no international release dates have yet been announced).