Jordan Downey
Director · b. 1986 · Newark, Ohio, USA
Jordan Downey is a writer and director from Granville, Ohio. He moved to Los Angeles at eighteen to study film at Loyola Marymount University, where he began his professional career interning at Midnight Pictures, the production banner co-founded by Wes Craven. After making his feature debut with the cult horror comedy ThanksKilling, Downey developed a distinctive filmmaking style rooted in atmosphere, economy, and bold genre storytelling. His medieval thriller The Head Hunter brought wider recognition, earning multiple festival awards and numerous Best Actor honors for breakout star Christopher Rygh. Its success led to larger opportunities, including Stork, his segment in the Critics Choice Award-nominated anthology V/H/S/Beyond. Downey’s largest film to date, The Cycle, starring Deborah Ann Woll and Jeffrey Donovan, is slated for release through IFC Films and Shudder in 2026, while his latest feature, the sci-fi survival thriller Oversear, stars Academy Award-nominated actress Maria Bakalova and Frank Grillo. Across his work, Downey remains drawn to ambitious worlds, strong emotional stakes, and the strange possibilities of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Movies4
Movie3.9ComedyHorrorAn evil, fowl-mouthed turkey carves up college students on Thanksgiving break.
ThanksKilling
2008 · 118 votes
Movie3.0HorrorIn 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
2005 · 85 votes
Movie3.3ComedyHorrorA fowl-mouthed turkey and a cast of outrageous puppets embark on a surreal quest to find the lost sequel, ThanksKilling 2.
ThanksKilling 3
2012 · 42 votes
Movie5.5HorrorScience FictionAn alien bounty hunter enters a scene of suburban carnage, where something out of this world has been feeding on humans.
Critters: Bounty Hunter
2014 · 7 votes