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Eduardo Sánchez

Highest Rated: 86% The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Lowest Rated: 0% Portals (2019)

Birthday: Dec 20, 1968

Birthplace: Cuba

One-half of the brainpower behind "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) phenomenon, Cuban-born Eduardo Sanchez (along with co-editor-screenwriter-director Daniel Myrick) engineered one of the greatest rags-to-riches stories in cinema history, putting hope into the hearts of independent filmmakers everywhere that they too might someday make a blockbuster for peanuts. Central to their success was a potent premise that enabled them to turn all the weaknesses of low-budget filmmaking into the picture's strengths. Fed up with a genre that had come to rely on irony and special effects, they conceived the ultimate campfire ghost story, a 200-year-old legend about an outcast, a cursed town and a series of child murders and unexplained disappearances. Long before they had assembled their actors, they created an eight-minute trailer that was essentially a mock documentary of the back story of the Blair Witch. A fortuitous meeting with John Pierson led to the trailer playing on Pierson's "Split Screen" (Independent Film Channel) in 1997, and the strong reaction from many viewers buying into it as a genuine story buoyed their enthusiasm.

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Highest-Rated Movies

86% 57% The Blair Witch Project Watchlist
70% 53% V/H/S/2
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60% Ghost Game Watchlist
46% 32% Lovely Molly
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39% 29% Exists
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38% 31% Blair Witch Watchlist 25% 26% The Jester Watchlist
14% 18% Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
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0% 12% Portals Watchlist
21% Jedi Junkies
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Ghost Game 60% 2024 Executive Producer The Jester 25% 26% 2023 Executive Producer Last Night at Terrace Lanes 43% 2022 Producer Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity 71% 2021 Self Portals 0% 12% 2019 Film Editing Blair Witch 38% 31% 2016 Executive Producer Exists 39% 29% 2014 Director, Film Editing V/H/S/2 70% 53% 2013 Director, Screenwriter Lovely Molly 46% 32% 2011 Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing Jedi Junkies 21% 2010 Actor Seventh Moon 23% 2008 Director, Writer Altered 43% 2006 Director Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 14% 18% 2000 Producer The Blair Witch Project 86% 57% 1999 Director, Writer, Film Editing
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