Where did the inspiration for Seventh Moon come from, is it a real Chinese myth?
Sanchez: Me wanting to make a chase film, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Originally it was gonna take place here, where I live in Maryland. I live in a rural area in Maryland. I just wanted to make a really cheap movie, get some people around here to do it. But I couldn’t figure out who the bad guy was gonna be. I didn’t want it to be zombies or rednecks or insane asylum escapees so I put it on the backburner. So I was talking to a Chinese-American filmmaker friend of mine who was trying to make some horror movies in China. So she asked me if I had any ideas and I thought yeah, it could work in China. To me this idea really exploded once the Chinese thing came up. I thought it was the perfect place for something weird like this to happen. Then I started to do some research and found the whole idea of the Seventh Lunar Month and the Hungry Ghost Festival within the Seventh Lunar Month, and I realized this is where the movie has to start. We took the existing legend where Buddha ope
