Remember Daniel Myrick? In 1999, he was one of the hottest names in Hollywood after a little movie called The Blair Witch Project came out of Sundance and took the world by storm. Everyone waited with bated breath to see how Myrick and co-director Eduardo Sanchez would follow it up. Little did we know that Myrick & Sanchez would become the "one-hit wonder" of the horror world. Sanchez went on to write the much-maligned sequel Book of Shadows and direct indie projects like Altered and the currently-in-production Seventh Moon. Myrick basically went underground with no writing or directing credits between Blair Witch and last year. That's when Daniel resurfaced as a producer on the new series of Warner Brothers straight-to-DVD flicks under the banner "Raw Feed" - Rest Stop, Sublime, and now, one he co-wrote and directed, Believers. All three have been flawed-but-interesting and show that Myrick and Raw Feed might be good things to have around in the horror genre. Welcome back Blair Witch fans.

Believers is the relatively simple tale of two paramedics (Johnny Messner from FOX's now-cancelled Killer Instinct and Jon Huertas) who respond to a 911 call and find themselves in the worst possible predicament. Our heroes have been called to help a woman who is going into cardiac arrest, but the woman happens to be a member of the Quantas Group, a cult who is preparing for the end of the world...in seven days. It's the story of the poor schlubs who conceivably could have stumbled across Heaven's Gate in the days before the cult commited mass suicide. It's a scary place to be. They refuse to let the paramedics treat the woman and the poor guys get kidnapped and held hostage. Will they convert to the ways of Quantas? Are these people who believe "God is in the numbers" totally crazy or could they be right? It's an interesting slant for a horror movie, one that uses real-life controversies like science vs. religion instead of supernatural baddies or foreigners with chainsaws.

Give Believers points for ambition. Like he did with Blair Witch, Myrick and co-writer Julia Fair are trying something different. The execution is another story. Believers looks and sounds too often like an extended episode of The Outer Limits or another anthology series, never gelling into a complete feature-length experience on its own. There's a surprising lack of story here. You keep waiting for another plot point or twist in the action and it doesn't come. While it's admirable that Myrick is more concerned with conversations about faith than gore, that decision can lead to something you never want in a horror film - boredom. The abundance of complicated themes and ideas in Believers should be admired - it's not exactly common in horror - but it makes the entire proceeding a little one-note and dull. Believers is interesting, but you'll want it to be scarier. Still, it's well-made enough to find some fans and hopefully add fire to the resurging career of Myrick (who has two other credits already in production as director). It's enough to make you believe in a comeback.