He is confident in his audience and confident that he doesn’t have to explain every single little thing to them.” He has a way of portraying fear without really showing it. “Daniel really didn’t want to make a studio film, and we thought this was a very worthy idea.

Wall said of “The Objective,” which cost less than $5 million. “He showed us a two-page treatment, and we optioned the film,” Mr. Jeremy Wall of Jaz Films, one of the producers of the movie, can vouch for that. I want to do my own thing, and I think Tribeca and New York is the perfect place for a film like ‘The Objective.’ It is an independent project from start to finish.” “I am not in a rush to do a lot of films. “I am interested in independent film, in doing smaller projects on my own terms,” he said. Myrick is not particularly interested in meeting the criteria of a studio film. It’s the kind of film that could leave a few audience members scratching their heads, but Mr. The action is complicated and head-spinning, rendered against a foreboding visual backdrop and populated with terse-talking military types. Throughout “The Objective” there are weird visual portents, deadly beams of light and disappearing bodies. They are confronted by mortal and supernatural threats that leave the crew decimated and wondering precisely what it is up against. officer joins up with a Special Forces crew for a mission deep in the mountains and tells the team members little, at least very little that is true, about what they are actually looking for. Myrick, 44, has actually been busy in Morocco shooting “The Objective,” a military-horror-thriller-buddy movie set in Afghanistan that suggests that Osama bin Laden is not the only seemingly supernatural force haunting the mountains there.ĭaniel Myrick, whose new film is The Objective. Credit. “I’ve been on the beach in Bermuda for the last few years,” he said. Myrick never became frantic about the next big thing.

But despite the jokes and articles about “The Curse of the Blair Witch,” Mr. Myrick spurned the Hollywood blandishments that came his way in the film’s aftermath, instead charting his own course, including a few straight-to-video projects that did not remotely approach the culture-tilting or commercial impact of “Blair Witch,” his first feature. And one of the people who never seemed to make it back from those dark, awful woods was Daniel Myrick, the film’s co-director. “The Blair Witch Project,” the cult hit released in 1999, ends without ending, but the viewer is pretty sure that what follows after the abrupt camera cut is quite grim.

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