Word: myrick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniel Myrick, co-director of The Blair Witch Project: "Your need for a location can often outweigh your influence, not to mention your bank account. Ask for permission first. If they say no, then you shoot quickly. All McCain needs to do next time is figure out a way to incorporate his campaign ads into a film student's senior-thesis project...
...effects-laden horror films, gives it the emotional depth of an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. The fear of the movie's characters is raw and brutal, but the fear of the audience members is dulled by the absence of any emotional involvement in the film. Perhaps if writers/directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez had instructed their dazed and confused trio to put down the cameras for a moment and just talk, we would have had some emotional stake in the film. As the movie stands, though, its forte is style and not substance. Unfortunately, true horror is born of more...
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT Kids are part of the solution. "To change a school environment, you have to mobilize all the resources," says Robert Myrick, an education counselor at the University of Florida, "and the best resources are the kids." A sense of security is reinforced when students feel they are part of the school and accepted by others. Like any other school, Grimsley has cliques and clusters of kids with shared interests, but students say that they exist without tension and that it is possible to bounce back and forth between groups. "It's a friendly environment," comments Tyler Brooks...
...lesson on how real horror evolves! Nothing so purely frightening has happened in a good 30 years. I have never understood why contemporary Hollywood's "Oooh--scary!" people wouldn't support the proved fact that the unseen beast is the most hair raising of all. Hail to Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez for following their instincts and not the usual commercial formula. AMANDA STEAD GHIO Warren, Conn...
Talk online with Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, the directors of The Blair Witch Project, Wednesday, Aug. 11 at 8 p.m. E.T. on chat.yahoo.com/time