No cinematic storyteller should turn down the combined juju of “Blair Witch” and “Supernatural,” but “Yellowjackets” is doing just fine with its own eerie and triggering symbol. In fact, when he described the cabin in which the Yellowjackets find shelter after their plane crashes to “Supernatural” production designer Jerry Wanek, Wanek said: “I built that cabin.” Until recently, the paintball park that stands in for the forest home of the stranded girls’ soccer team was the woodland home of “ Supernatural,” for which Sánchez directed five episodes, including one in the 15th and final season. Which, as the forest gods would have it, was filmed in the same Vancouver, Canada, location where much of the wilderness portion of “Yellowjackets” was filmed. He managed to slide a “Blair Witch” symbol into the last episode of “Supernatural” he directed. The Showtime series may tick many of the boxes that made Sánchez and Daniel Myrick’s first film a cultural icon - one half of the series deals with freaked-out young people lost in very creepy woods dotted with disturbing iconography - but Sánchez did not slide a random stick man into any “Yellowjacket” scenes. Any “ Blair Witch Project” obsessives who started combing the “Yellowjacket’s” finale frame by frame the moment they heard it was directed by Eduardo Sánchez can stop now.
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