József Gallai
Writer · b. 1988 · Sopron, Hungary
After watching Lady in the Water (2006), József Gallai decided to deal with filmmaking and started writing screenplays and short stories. Between 2009 and 2012 he was mainly involved in amateur films in various genres. In 2014, he wrote and co-directed Hungary's first feature length found footage horror Bodom (2014). In this year the movie opened the Bram Stoker International Film Festival in Whitby, UK as well as collected numerous nominations on film festivals including 30 Dies Festival in Andorra, Golden Rake Award for Indie Horror and New York Scary Film Awards in the US and Amazon Horror Awards in Brazil. In 2015 Bodom was in the final competition at the Full Moon Horror & Fantasy Film Festival in Romania, competing with award winning films such as Welp (2014), Horsehead (2014) and Réalité (2014). In the beginning of 2016 his next horror movie Moth (2016) was completed and finished 4th Best Feature Film at the International Horror Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. The movie has been called a "thought-provoking and chilling film" by Found Footage Fiction and a "front running for a new horror niche" by Horror Habit. According to Horror Asylum, Moth is "an unusual experience with some moment reminding the author of David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006)". In the end of 2016 Gallai finished his fourth found footage feature A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex (2016), being described as an "enjoyably sinister movie with a delightfully unhinged central performance" by UK Film Review and collecting further positive reviews from Found Footage Critic, Top Found Footage Films and Warped Perspective as well as three nominations (including Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Film) on the International Filmmaker Festival World Cinema in Nice in 2017. In 2018 he completed his next short film Echoes (2018), which will be part of a horror anthology titled Blood Tales. He also directed two internationally acknowledged films in 2019 (Spirits in the Dark, The Whispering Man) that are set to be released worldwide in 2020 by Wild Eye Releasing. Presently, Gallai is working on his next paranormal thriller The Poltergeist Diaries featuring Oscar nominated Eric Roberts.
Movies9
Movie3.3ThrillerHorrorAn enthusiastic lecturer and her student travel to Europe to go after the mythology of the Mothman, but they soon have to fight for survival.
Moth
2016 · 18 votes
Movie3.5HorrorMysteryAfter moving to an isolated cabin, Jacob Taylor vanishes without a trace. With the help of footage he leaves behind, his family members, friends, and a detective try to find answers to the strange events that are centered around him.
The Poltergeist Diaries
2021 · 9 votes
MovieAfter Claire Russell's disappearance, her college friend sets out to uncover the mystery of the black-eyed children, but finds herself facing a determined group that will stop at nothing to keep the secrets from coming to light.
MovieThe third and final installment of The Black-Eyed Children mythology.
Movie3.5DramaHorrorA young film student is about to make a documentary about an elderly man who has been hiding from the world for many years. But as secrets from his past come to light, their strange relationship takes a fateful turn.
A Stranger in the Woods
2024 · 4 votes
Movie3.7MysteryScience FictionA young woman takes a job at an autumn camp in the woods, only to arrive to find that all the children have mysteriously disappeared. But as night falls, much to her dismay, some of them return.
The Black-Eyed Children
2025 · 3 votes
Movie4.7DramaHorrorA lonely widower finds a mysterious video on his computer that leads him to an abandoned town occupied by an ominous entity.
Spirits in the Dark
2020 · 7 votes
MovieFantasyAdventureA young man finds his missing father's car, which appears to be a means of travelling through alternate universes.
Párhuzam
2018
MovieDramaHorrorStrange entities begin to haunt a middle-aged man and his infant son in a remote cabin in the woods.
Echoes
2018