Writer-director Eduardo Sanchez created a sensation right out of the gate as one of the co-creators of The Blair Witch Project, the film that launched the first person horror trend that is still going strong today. If he's been fairly quiet since, well, it's hard not to blame him. After all, how do you follow up something as huge as Blair Witch? Well, Sanchez is back now with his third feature, a stranger-in-a-strange land horror film titled Seventh Moon. Since it's just been confirmed that the film will have it's world premiere at the 2008 edition of Fantastic Fest, I'll quote from festival director Tim League's notes on the film:

Seventh Moon opens with Melissa (Amy Smart, STARSHIP TROOPERS, BUTTERFLY EFFECT, MIRRORS) and Yul (Tim Chiou) enjoying the first days of their Honeymoon on vacation in China. Yul is an American of Chinese descent, but only has a marginal grasp of the language and culture. He convinced Melissa, however, to forego the tropics for a more adventurous honeymoon: a guided tour of China during the Seventh Moon ghost festival. By the looks on their faces, they made the right choice. Good food, good shopping and a fantastic celebration of Chinese culture replete with music, dancing, drinking and elaborate parades and ceremonial offerings. If you look beyond their happy faces to the corners of the frame, however, you notice that perhaps the Americans are not as welcome as they feel. They are a bit too loud and tipsy for what is clearly a sacred event. Disrespect at a shrine ends in angry glances. An inappropriate loud joke results in a harsh barking rebuke. The tone of unease is subtle but undeniable.

Intoxicated and exhausted, the newlyweds climb into their chartered taxi and drift off to sleep en route to Yul’s grandmother’s house in rural Axian. When they awake, their driver has abandoned them in the middle of nowhere and very strange stirrings are audible in the fields near the road.

Shot on location in China with its characters stranded in a culture they don't really understand this looks to be a disorienting, unsettling bit of work. Don't believe me? Well, we've got the very first look at the film's first trailer, which you can find below the break in the Twitch Player.