Known for Directing
Eduardo Sánchez is an American filmmaker best known as the co-director, co-writer, and co-creator of The Blair Witch Project, the film widely credited with bringing found footage film into the mainstream. Released in 1999, The Blair Witch Project used improvised performances, POV camerawork, and viral internet marketing to create an unprecedented sense of realism, becoming one of the most influential and profitable independent films in cinema history. Sánchez has continued to work extensively within the horror genre, directing and writing films such as Seventh Moon, Lovely Molly, and Exists, securing his legacy as a foundational architect of modern horror cinema.
Born
December 20, 1968 (age 57)
Birthplace
Cuba
Filmography
56 films, 31 shows


Satanic Hispanics
2022 · 1h 53m · MX
When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.


El Vampiro
2022 · 20m
A vampire husband who doesn't listen to his long-suffering vampire wife; she's forced to decide if she should risk burning in broad daylight to come rescue him from a misadventure in town.


Portals
2019 · 1h 25m
A series of worldwide blackouts cause millions of mysterious cosmic anomalies to appear everywhere across the planet. Some people are drawn into them with horrifying consequences.


Exists
2014 · 1h 21m · US
A group of friends venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend and find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.


V/H/S/2
2013 · 1h 36m · US
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.


Lovely Molly
2011 · 1h 40m · US
A supernatural presence menaces a newlywed couple after they move into the wife's long-abandoned childhood home.


Seventh Moon
2008 · 1h 27m · HK
Melissa and Yul, Americans honeymooning in China, come across the exotic 'Hungry Ghost' festival. When night falls, the couple end up in a remote village, and soon realize the legend is all too real. Plunged into an ancient custom they cannot comprehend, the couple must find a way to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.


Altered
2006 · 1h 28m · US
Fifteen years ago, five men were abducted by aliens. Only four returned. Now, these same four men have managed to capture one of the creatures who killed their friend and ruined their lives.


Sticks and Stones: Investigating the Blair Witch
1999 · 29m · US
Delving deeper into the mystery of the legendary Blair Witch and the disappearance of three student filmmakers, this documentary closely examines the evidence of the case – Josh Leonard's car, the backpack of film canisters found under an abandoned house in the woods, and the actual film footage contained therein – in an effort to illuminate what is scientifically unexplainable.


The Blair Witch Project
1999 · 1h 21m · US
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.


Curse of the Blair Witch
1999 · 44m · US
A mockumentary exploring the legend of the Blair Witch and the case of the three missing student filmmakers.