Indeed, the realistic shaky-cam footage of Blair Witch successfully cultivated a new kind of horror based on what the viewers didn’t see, standing in stark contrast to decades of schlock and slasher monsters. Skyman is an intriguing return to form for Myrick, who famously teamed with Eduardo Sánchez as co-writer/director for 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, a film that positively pierced the pop culture landscape, and-notwithstanding the less-recognized 1998 effort, The Last Broadcast-is widely credited for inventing (or, in the very least, popularizing) the found-footage sub-genre, which utilized the democratizing strategy of using consumer-level equipment-in this case camcorders-to shoot what would become a wide-release film.
However, the film will be available to watch on demand on July 7, accommodating those not lucky enough to live near a drive-in (unfortunately, the majority of moviegoers).
incident involving a 10-year-old boy-that does its best to disguise its fictional status by showcasing an array of news broadcasts and vintage-styled testimonials that seem authentic enough to fool anyone not in the know. The Skyman trailer previews a film-centered on a 1987 E.T. The film debuted at the 2019 Austin Film Festival, held that October, after which it was shopped around. Myrick, who wrote and directed the picture, has returned to his original wheelhouse with sci-fi offering Skyman, which essentially gives the arena of UFOs and close encounters the… well, Blair Witch-type disguised fourth wall treatment, manifesting as a pseudo-documentary. Skyman, a new film from The Blair Witch Project’s Daniel Myrick, is set to make its Earthly arrival, set to bring about more fictional-found-footage drama, as evidenced by the release of a new trailer on the occasion of the film’s acquisition by distributor Gravitas Ventures, which has release plans that are intrinsically of the COVID-19 era.
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