Alexandre Aja
- Directing
- August 7, 1978 · Paris, France
Biography
Alexandre Jouan-Arcady (born August 7, 1978) is a French filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre, beginning with his acclaimed French-language breakthrough slasher film High Tension (2003) before making the transition to American films with his remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (2006). He has gone on to direct other notable horror films such as Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), Horns (2013), Crawl (2019), Oxygen (2021) and Never Let Go (2024).
Known for
Filmography
- Crawl 2 · Director, Producer
- Strawberries · Co-producer
- Jaws, a Monstrous Success · Self
- Never Let Go · Director, Producer
- The Blond Boy from the Casbah · Second Unit Director
- Night of the Hunted · Producer
- Under the Stars · Narrator (Voice)
- Oxygen · Producer, Director
- Crawl · Director, Producer
- Beyond Blood · Self
- Crawl · Director, Producer
- Urban Nightmares · Producer
- Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam · Writer, Director
- 47 Meters Down · Executive producer
- Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur · Self
- The 9th Life of Louis Drax · Director, Producer
- The Other Side of the Door · Producer
- Fury of the Demon · Self
- Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw · Self
- The Pyramid · Producer
- Why Horror? · Self
- 24 Days · Assistant Director
- Du sang sur la neige · Self
- Maniac: The Making of Documentary · Self
- Rock the Casbah · Associate Producer, Script Consultant
- Horns · Director, Producer
- Maniac · Screenplay, Producer
- Don't Scream, Just Swim: Behind-the-Scenes of 'Piranha 3D' · Self
- The Splat Pack · Self
- Piranha 3D · Director, Producer
- French Meat · Self
- Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies · Self
- The Esseker File · Director, Writer
- Mirrors · Director, Screenplay
- P2 · Story, Screenplay
- The Hills Have Eyes · Screenplay, Director
- Mixed Marriage · Second Unit Director
- High Tension · Director, Writer
- Break of Dawn · Second Unit Director, Screenplay
- Return to Algiers · Second Unit Director
- Furia · Screenplay, Director
- Over the Rainbow · Writer, Director
- The Big Pardon 2 · Alexander Atlan
- Brothers in Arms · The child with the skateboard
- Sacrée soirée · Self
- Le Grand Carnaval · Raphaël Labrouche
- The Big Pardon · L'enfant
- Mice and Mystics · Director, Writer
- The Flowers of Evil · Director, Screenplay
- Under Paris 2 · Director, Writer
- Dead by Daylight · Screenplay