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...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...
...they had 20 hours of footage. Their plan had been to follow that with the "documentary" scenes and, says Sanchez, "treat the footage almost as if it were real. But it turned out to be just so real." Suddenly they had a faux cinema verite thriller. "We knew it was different, and a risk. But as rough and as raw as it was, we knew we should leave it alone." They had their movie. They trimmed the woods footage--"It was like we wrote the script during the editing," Myrick says--and used the other material for a devious docu...
That material also got onto the website, designed by Sanchez. Rarely have outtakes proved so useful. They helped create a Blair world of almost Tolkienian density. "You could get into the spirit of the folklore we created without having to see the movie," Sanchez says, "or vice versa." The folklore also served as fodder for the book (No. 10 on the Amazon.com list), the comic book and, yes, the CD of songs found in the tape deck of Josh's car. Now fess up, that's stretching synergy. But everything has worked so far for the good-guy directors...
...that their first feature is headed for $100 million at the domestic box office, Myrick and Sanchez have just one sure thing ahead of them: the sophomore jinx. They describe their next film, a comedy called Heart of Love, as "Mad Mad Mad World meets Monty Python meets Airplane! meets the stupidest movie you've ever seen." Could it tank? Of course--like most indie or studio films. "We know we're gonna bomb," says Sanchez. "We're gonna live with that bomb and nurture it and then watch it explode...
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