Simon Barrett
Writer · Columbia, Missouri, USA
Simon Barrett (born 1978) is an American filmmaker and actor. He frequently collaborates with director Adam Wingard. He is best known for writing the films You're Next (2011), The Guest (2014), Blair Witch (2016), Azrael (2024) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). He made his feature directorial debut with the film Seance (2021).
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Movie6.6HorrorThrillerWhen the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
You're Next
2013 · 2.8K votes
Movie6.1ThrillerHorrorWhen a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
V/H/S
2012 · 1.8K votes
Movie6.2HorrorThrillerInside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
V/H/S/2
2013 · 1.2K votes
Movie4.9HorrorAn ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
The ABCs of Death
2013 · 642 votes
Movie5.3HorrorThrillerA young woman contracts what she believes to be an STD—but it ends up being a far worse disease.
Contracted
2013 · 559 votes
Movie5.4HorrorTaking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.
ABCs of Death 2
2014 · 350 votes
Movie5.4ThrillerDramaOn a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.
Always Shine
2016 · 156 votes
Movie6.1ThrillerActionIn the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
The Last Survivors
2014 · 231 votes
Movie4.3ActionHorrorA group of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East find themselves with nothing to do in their free time. Out of sheer boredom they end up destroying an old statue in the desert, only to unleash a horrific entity.
Red Sands
2009 · 108 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryHistoryA detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
Tales of the Uncanny
2020 · 12 votes
Movie5.9DocumentaryHorrorHorror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.
Why Horror?
2014 · 23 votes
Movie5.1HorrorThrillerAn escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
A Horrible Way to Die
2010 · 90 votes
Movie4.0ThrillerDramaBilly is a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead. Michael, a melancholic cop, is tasked with investigating him.
24 Exposures
2013 · 38 votes
Movie5.0DramaAn insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
All the Light in the Sky
2013 · 21 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryHorrorA feature-length documentary on the making of Adam Wingard's Blair Witch (2016).
Neverending Night: The Making of Blair Witch
2017 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryHorrorHorror bleeds into the 21st Century in an incisive documentary looking back at the late 1990s film industry on a global scale to find out what happened at the turn of the millennium to allow for the huge wealth of horror films flooding out from all corners of the globe. From SCREAM (1996), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) and FINAL DESTINATION (2000), to WRONG TURN (2003), HOSTEL (2005) and SAW (2004), with insight from Joe Lynch, Xavier Gens and Bill Malone who track the technology, the industry and the societal changes behind the next generation of horror films.
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A documentary on Scanner Cop and Scanner Cop II: The Showdown
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An eclipse that never goes away. Penned by some of the Bristol's finest writers, "The Day That Broke" is an ensemble piece connecting 6 different stories that revolve around a solar eclipse. The various characters, on a number of timelines before, during, and after the event each respond differently to it - and indeed, those timelines become different worlds since the eclipse, mysteriously, never ends.