Whatever Happened to the Blair Witch? With all of these horror movies making their way to the big screen, including this week's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I thought I'd check in with Ed Sánchez, codirector and writer of The Blair Witch Project. His latest project is his second child, he tells me via email from his new home in Maryland, and he has just finished his first horror script in five years, Sasquatch, after trying unsuccessfully to get a comedy off the ground.
"Making a horror movie puts you in a weird place," he says. "Blair was so dark that it took us a while to work our way out of that feeling." Regarding Hollywood's current obsession with horror, he says, "I think it's a good thing. People love to be scared, so as long as you show enough wacky things in the trailer, you're going to get an audience that first weekend." But he does have some concerns. "My worry is that like everything in Hollywood, the bad will outweigh the good, and people will get burned out on the genre. But it really doesn't matter, because a good movie, no matter what genre, will find an audience."
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