--- name: "Daniel Myrick" canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniel-myrick" fi1m_id: "daniel-myrick" imdb_id: "nm0617130" tmdb_id: 26849 wikidata_id: "Q1161856" roles: ["Editor","Director"] born: "30 November 1962" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 0 updated: "2026-09-17T22:26:14.768087+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Daniel Myrick ## Identity Daniel Myrick - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daniel-myrick - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** daniel-myrick - **IMDb ID:** nm0617130 - **TMDB ID:** 26849 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1161856 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Myrick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1161856, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0617130/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26849 Editor and director. Born 30 November 1962 in Sarasota, Florida, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Editor, Director - **Born:** 30 November 1962, Sarasota, Florida, USA - **Also known as:** Dan Myrick, D.R. Myrick - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Myrick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1161856, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0617130/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26849 ## Coming up - *Untitled Blair Witch Film* (2027-09-24), Characters ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The Blair Witch Project*](https://film.one/film/the-blair-witch-project.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Daniel Myrick > Daniel Myrick makes convincing horror from people losing confidence in what they know. *The Blair Witch Project* earns our recommendation for its performances and dread, though its repeated panic shows the limits of that approach. The footage in *The Blair Witch Project* (1999) is awkward, and the people making it have more pressing concerns than getting a usable shot. Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez keep us with three student filmmakers in the woods as their confidence fails. We found their helplessness frightening because recording what happens does nothing to make them understand it. Myrick is good at letting behaviour supply the horror: the people holding the camera can no longer reassure themselves, let alone us. Sánchez deserves equal credit: the pair wrote, directed and edited the film together. Their cuts leave the material untidy enough to seem recorded under pressure, preserving the sense that nobody is arranging events for our benefit. Myrick's use of outlines that let actors improvise dialogue helps explain why behaviour matters so much in his work. The difficulty is knowing when that behaviour has told us enough. Even at 81 minutes, *The Blair Witch Project* repeats its panic until we are ready to move on, a fault in a film otherwise so good at keeping us uneasy. Myrick had made short films with Sánchez and Gregg Hale before *The Blair Witch Project* brought international attention. His subsequent features kept him in horror and science fiction. *Solstice* (2008) was shot in the Louisiana bayous; *The Objective* (2008), filmed in Morocco, mixes documentary and narrative methods in military horror. He keeps returning to people trying to make sense of the unexplained. *Skyman* (2019), a documentary-style study of a UFO experiencer, takes him back towards the mockumentary form. That emphasis on a person living with an extraordinary belief is a promising direction for a director whose horror depends so much on credible behaviour. We want him to stay interested in the believer even when there is no immediate fright to deliver. Start with *The Blair Witch Project*, and do not expect the camera to offer reassurance. ## Biography Daniel Myrick is an American film director, writer, producer and editor. He is best known for co-directing, co-writing and co-editing the 1999 found-footage horror film *The Blair Witch Project* with Eduardo Sánchez. Myrick graduated from the University of Central Florida School of Film in 1994. He previously worked as an editor and cinematographer on Florida-based music videos and commercials. His later feature directing credits include *Solstice* (2007), *Believers* (2007), *The Objective* (2008) and *Skyman* (2019). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Blair Witch Project* (1999), Fi1m 84, Editor, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-blair-witch-project.md) ## Complete filmography (21) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Untitled Blair Witch Film* (2027), Characters, Executive Producer - *Valiant One* (2025), Co-Producer, Story - *Triple 7* (2024), Director, Writer - *Skyman* (2020), Documentary Director, Producer, Director, Writer, Cinematography - *Under the Bed* (2017), Director, Screenplay - *Blair Witch* (2016), Executive Producer, Characters - *Four Corners of Fear* (2013), series, as Daniel Myrick - *The Presence* (2010), Executive Producer - *Rest Stop: Don't Look Back* (2008), Producer - *Alien Raiders* (2008), Producer - *The Objective* (2008), Director, Screenplay - *Otis* (2008), Producer - *Solstice* (2008), Director, Writer - *Sublime* (2007), Producer - *Believers* (2007), Director, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer - *Rest Stop* (2006), Producer - *Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2* (2000), Executive Producer, Characters - *Sticks and Stones: Investigating the Blair Witch* (1999), as Interviewer (voice) · Director, Writer - *The Blair Witch Project* (1999), Director, Writer, Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-blair-witch-project.md) - *Curse of the Blair Witch* (1999), Director, Writer - *The Unearthly*, Executive Producer ## Gallery - ![Daniel Myrick](https://film.one/media/person/88999/gallery-927c6cf57142.jpg) Daniel Myrick — Hamedgamaoun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Daniel_Myrick_Portrait.jpg/1280px-Daniel_Myrick_Portrait.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Daniel Myrick](https://film.one/media/person/88999/gallery-ef895a78d738.jpg) Daniel Myrick — Image via TMDB - ![Daniel Myrick](https://film.one/media/person/88999/gallery-3181c5d36b2d.jpg) Daniel Myrick — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 2000: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (nominated), for *Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2* - Independent Spirit Awards 2000: Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award (won), for *The Blair Witch Project* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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