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In 1999 The Blair Witch Project came out of nowhere and changed the face of horror movies forever. The a year later the first of the Final Destination movies arrived, kicking off a much loved series

Now more than 20 years later, Blair Witch Project co-director Daniel Myrick and Final Destination creator Jeffrey Reddick have teamed up to work on a new horror project designed specifically for streaming.

Black Veil is a series of six short form films with various collaborators. “It all revolves around that vibe in Florida, in Georgia, Alabama, that sort of Southern Gothic spookiness,” says Myrick.

The pilot, titled Camera Obscura and directed by Myrick, went into production in December 2019 but COVID19 prevented the series from being completed.

“We were full steam ahead right before the pandemic hit. We had just wrapped shooting on my episode, the pilot episode, and started the edit, and then everything got locked down.

“Blair Witch, which I consider incredibly fortunate to have been a part of, does come with its own set of baggage,” says Daniel Myrick, one half of the duo who made the found footage phenomenon which scared the hell out of audiences when it was released in cinemas in 1999 and went on to change the face of horror as we know it.

We’re chatting (via Zoom) in the context of Myrick’s new movie, Skyman, a documentary style sci-fi which feels like it could be real, featuring elements of found footage and starring relative unknowns Michael Selle and Nicolette Sweeney, who play Carl Merriweather and his sister Gina. Carl believes he encountered an alien when he was just 10 years old and he’s convinced the being he calls the ‘Skyman’ is going to return for him on his 40th birthday. Along with a documentary film crew, Carl, his sister,...

Daniel Myrick, the co-director and writer of the 1999 indie classic, The Blair Witch Project, has a new fictional documentary dealing with a subject he says he has a passion for, alien abduction. It’s called Skyman and it’s available on VOD and playing in drive-in theaters now.

“I’ve always been fascinated with the subject matter,” Myrick tells Den of Geek. “When I was growing up in the late seventies and early eighties, everything from UFOs to Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, Bermuda Triangle, and the zeitgeists in those days, and sort of inspired me as a preteen to kind of start my own UFO club in my neighborhood. And me and a couple of friends got together and did sort of our version of The X-Files, where we were out investigating neighborhoods and people that had visitations and whatnot.”

Myrick says his interest in the UFOs can also be...

After a few relatively quiet weeks to wrap up June’s home media releases, July comes roaring back with a slate of titles that genre fans will definitely want to add to their Blu-ray and DVD collections. Arrow Video has been staying extremely busy as of late, with three different releases coming out on Tuesday: Black Rainbow from Flash Gordon director Mike Hodges, Zombie for Sale, and Teruo Ishii’s Inferno of Torture. Criterion Collection is also celebrating an all-time sci-fi classic this Tuesday, The War of the Worlds, and if you haven’t had a chance to check it out on Shudder, Belzebuth is headed to both Blu-ray and DVD this week as well.

Leomark is showing some love to the Godfather of Gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis, with their Blu-ray presentation of Bloodmania, and Kino Lorber is resurrecting The Flesh and the Fiends for a Special Edition Blu this week,...

The mock-documentary Skyman doesn’t tell the usual UFO encounter story. Director Daniel Myrick, who broke on the scene with the groundbreaking horror thriller The Blair Witch Project, does not put this together using found footage. The film examines the aftermath of an alien visitation, and the story is told by a witness and survivor.

Carl Merryweather (Michael Selle) was seven years old when he saw the “skyman” in Barstow, a small town in California. The event changed him. He’s spent years obsessively collecting UFO magazines, as well as first-person accounts of other contactees. It made him the neighborhood “character.” Skyman takes place 33 years after the visitation, he is living with his sister, Gina (Nicolette Sweeney), and waiting on a promise the alien made to return on his 40th birthday.

The film was shot in Barstow, where there have been multiple real life reports of UFO sightings. Merryweather also...

Now with the month of June pretty much in our rearview, it’s time to look forward to a new month of VOD and Digital releases headed our way throughout the month of July. There’s a lot of great content coming out over the next few weeks, so even though most movie theaters won’t be open, you’ll still have plenty of stuff to keep you entertained from the comfort of your own home.

Some of the highlights for July’s Digital and VOD releases include Homewrecker and Belzebuth on July 7th (the latter had previously been streaming exclusively on Shudder until now), The Beach House on July 9th, Relic on July 10th (this debut from Natalie Erika James was one of my favorite films out of Sundance 2020), the cult classic Rad, which has several digital release dates in July, Joko Anwar’s Impetigore on July 23rd (another...

“The Blair Witch Project” is one of the most successful DIY filmmaking stories in history, and while it didn’t invent the concept of found-footage horror, it created a formula that many imitators followed. The “Blair Witch” template yielded 20-plus years of shaky-cam dread, with franchises that ran the gimmick into the ground. The film’s co-directors, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, kept low profiles as they produced unassuming and often sturdy lo-fi genre movies that never quite crossed over in the same way. Myrick’s latest effort, the understated UFO thriller “Skyman,” follows suit — but more than anything preceding it, at the start of the century.

This time, however, the outcome is less scary than sad. Once again, jittery camerawork and faux documentary footage depict the quixotic efforts to record otherworldly events in the middle of nowhere. In its final moments, the drama builds to the usual blurry chaos and jump scares,...

"All I know is something's going on, and I don't think it's human related!" Gravitas Ventures has unveiled an official trailer for a freaky new aliens film titled Skyman, which originally premiered at the Austin Film Festival last year. Skyman is yet another faux-documentary style horror-esque film made by one of the co-directors of the original The Blair Witch Project. The film tells the story of Carl Merryweather, who believes he experienced an alien encounter when he was 10-years-old and is now trying to reconnect with the UFO at the exact same location. "Carl is set on a mission to reunite with the being he calls ‘the Skyman’ to not only prove the skeptics wrong but to ultimately find his own true sense of purpose." While it is being played as a doc about this guy, it ends up being a commentary on the UFO community more than anything. Check it out.

The co-director of The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick, is back with a new film project called Skyman. This next movie of his is a another fake documentary, but this time it will put the focus on alien abductions. Here’s a brief synopsis:

Skyman documents the story of Carl Merryweather who believes he experienced an alien encounter at 10-years-old and is now trying to reconnect with the UFO at the same location.

As someone who is fascinated by these kinds of stories, I’m interested in checking this out. It doesn’t look like it will be the best movie, but who knows, maybe it will surprise me. After all, I did enjoy The Blair Witch Project when it first came out. That had a lot to do with the creative marketing of the film, though. It was that marketing leading up to the film that made the movie fun.

20 years ago, Daniel Myrick co-directed The Blair Witch Project. It was one of the biggest indie film successes of all time and has become a permanent piece of the pop culture landscape. Now, he’s back with another fake documentary, but instead of witches in the woods, he’s turning his camera on alien abductions. The […]

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