![]() Now, almost three obsessive decades later, 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. Despite other alleged sightings reported that same evening, skeptical authorities shrugged off the claims. In 1987, just days after his 10th birthday, Carl Merryweather rocked the local news community when he claimed he was visited by an extraterrestrial life form. The plot synopsis for the film, written and directed by Myrick, reads as follows: RELATED: Exclusive Dirt Music Trailer & Poster Starring Kelly Macdonald & Garrett Hedlund The trailer can be viewed in the player below! In addition to revealing their acquisition of the latest effort from The Blair Witch Project co-director, Gravitas Ventures has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming sci-fi/mystery mockumentary Skyman seeing Daniel Myrick returning behind the camera for the first time in over a decade. In concrete terms, there is nothing really graphically scary in The Blair Witch Project, but kids who see it need to be capable of understanding that it's entirely manufactured and fictional.Skyman trailer: The Blair Witch Project’s Daniel Myrick returns It's important for parents to remember that tolerance for scariness is highly individual, and, especially for teens and younger kids, highly suggestible. On another level, there is something cathartic for teenagers about seeing this graphic representation of an uncontrollable id on the loose. On one level, they provide peer bonding - you have to be friends with someone you grabbed in a moment of terror, and it's fun to have that shared experience. Teenagers have always loved scary movies. ![]() Like some sort of cinematic Rorschach test, as we watch this movie, we are each scared by whatever lurks in our subconscious. The filmmakers made a virtue of having no budget for special effects and left everything to the audience's grisly imagination. Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick drew from canny filmmakers such as Val Lewton and Alfred Hitchcock: People are much more scared by what they don't see than by what they do see. This horror film is more conceptual art and marketing phenomenon than movie. Frequent use of "f-k." In one scene, characters act drunk while drinking beer and scotch in a hotel room. Some of the imagery, particularly at the end, is especially terrifying. There is a scene in which a bloody shirt, along with what appears to be a severed tongue and teeth, comes into view of one of the cameras, much to the horror of one of the characters filming. ![]() Groundbreaking for its time - its use of handheld cameras "found" one year after the disappearance of the filmmakers caused quite a buzz upon its initial release - the movie relies less on the outright blood, gore, and violence of so many horror movies and more on a psychological horror and tension that is slowly ratcheted up with each passing day and night of the characters' descent into the eerie terror that awaits them. ![]() Parents need to know that The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 "found-footage" horror movie in which three film students attempt to film a documentary about the strange and terrifying murders that have taken place in some woods in rural Maryland.
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