Dread has released trailer for the Latino horror anthology Satanic Hispanics which arrives in cinemas on September 14th, kicking off the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. The film see a mysterious man known as The Traveler lead viewers into five scary stories based on Latin folklore from directors Mike Mendez, Demián Rugna, Eduardo Sánchez, Gigi […]
Movie Review – The Found Footage Phenomenon (2021)
The Found Footage Phenomenon, 2021. Written and directed by Sarah Appleton and Phillip Escott. Featuring André Øvredal, Patrick Brice, Ruggero Deodato, Eduardo Sánchez, and Stephen Volk. SYNOPSIS: An independent documentary charting the origins of the found footage subgenre, tracking it through to the technique’s current form and asking what the future is. No subgenre has […]
Movie Review – Portals (2019)
Portals, 2019. Directed by Gregg Hale, Liam O’Donnell, Eduardo Sánchez, and Timo Tjahjanto. Starring Deanna Russo, Ptolemy Slocum, Neil Hopkins, Salvita Decorte, Gretchen Lodge, Keith Hudson, Natasha Gott, Danielle Lewis, and Paul McCarthy-Boyington. SYNOPSIS: This genre-bending anthology takes place during a series of world-wide blackouts, after which millions of mysterious cosmic anomalies appear everywhere across […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 5 – The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Blair Witch Project, 1999. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, a group of documentary film-makers ventured into the woods of the Black Hills in Maryland to investigate the mysterious local legend of the Blair Witch. They subsequently vanished leaving behind only […]
Blair Witch TV series in development by original film director
The Blair Witch returned last year as director Adam Wingard unleashed his surprise sequel, and now we have word that Eduardo Sanchez, co-director of the original The Blair Witch Project, is developing a follow-up to the classic found footage horror in the form of a TV series. “For us, it’s a very natural thing to […]
Blair Witch: Returning to a seminal horror franchise
Tony Black on the return of the Blair Witch franchise… Of course the first question worth asking is this: is Blair Witch a horror movie? That now depends on which Blair Witch you’re talking about. Amongst all its glittering comic book movie reveals, Comic Con 2016’s biggest surprise turned out to be that Adam Wingard’s […]
Eduardo Sanchez to direct horror film Sevenfold for Blumhouse
Deadline is reporting that Blumhouse Productions has tapped The Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez to helm the micro-budget horror project Sevenfold. Plot details on Sevenfold are being kept under wraps, but the project will reunite Sanchez with scriptwriter Jamie Nash, who has penned Sanchez’s last four movies Altered, Seventh Moon, Lovely Molly and Exists. […]
Sequel to The Blair Witch Project is, “going to happen sooner than later” says original movie director
Since the found footage subgenre has risen to such prominence in horror, it seems surprising that its taken this long for discussions about either a sequel or reboot to The Blair Witch Project. Well according to Eduardo Sanchez, one half of the directing duo of the seminal 1999 horror, we could be closer than you think. […]
