Miracle Valley
Miracle Valley is a 2021 American horror film written, directed, and produced by Greg Sestero.
Premise
An obsessive nature photographer drags his girlfriend to the desert so that he can photograph a rare bird. In the desert the pair are insnared into a blood worshiping cult led by Father Jake.Cast
- Angela Mariano as Sarah Bloom
- Rick Edwards as Father Jake
- Greg Sestero as David
- Louisa Torres as Erika Torres
- Jesse Brenneman as Scott
- Kristen StephensonPino as Jane
Production
Sestero wrote the screenplay while living in Arizona, where the film was also shot and set, and was inspired by locations in the state including an abandoned church in Cochise County and an abandoned mine house in Patagonia, Arizona. Sestero wanted to write an homage to Slasher cinema and 1970s horror cinema, and also cited The Thing, Don't Breathe, Breakdown, and the works of Alfred Hitchcock including Psycho.Sestero scouted locations himself for the film, and collaborated with Matthew Halla as director of photography, whom he had met through USC School of Cinematic Arts.
The film was produced by Tom Franco, who also produced The Disaster Artist, the film adaptation of Greg Sestero's book of the same name, and his wife Iris Torres. Torres also worked on the film as assistant director.