Simon Barrett
- Writing
- July 29, 1978 · Columbia, Missouri, USA
Biography
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).
Known for
Filmography
- Onslaught · Producer, Story
- Generation Terror · Self
- Azrael · Writer, Producer
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire · Story, Screenplay
- Head Count · Executive producer
- Heard She Got Murdered · Executive producer
- V/H/S/94 · Writer, Director
- Outside the Law: The Scanner Cop Revolution · Self
- Seance · Screenplay, Director
- Tales of the Uncanny · Self
- Temple · Screenplay
- The Day That Broke · Supporting Artist
- Neverending Night: The Making of Blair Witch · Self
- Always Shine · Producer #2 (uncredited)
- Blair Witch · Writer, Co-producer
- Why Horror? · Self
- ABCs of Death 2 · Assassin's Employer (segment "A")
- The Guest · Writer, Executive producer
- The Last Survivors · Compound Soldier
- All the Light in the Sky
- You're Next · Tiger Mask, Writer
- 24 Exposures · Michael Bamfeaux
- Contracted · BJ
- V/H/S/2 · Steve (segment "Tape 49"), Executive producer
- The ABCs of Death · Simon (segment "Q is for Quack), Writer
- V/H/S · Steve (segment "Tape 56"), Writer
- What Fun We Were Having: 4 Stories About Date Rape · Writer
- Autoerotic · Writer
- A Horrible Way to Die · Olsen, Writer
- Red Sands · Matt Carson, Writer
- Dead Birds · Writer, Co-producer
- Frankenfish · Writer
- The Nothing Deal · Editing, Cinematography
- Face/Off 2 · Screenplay
- I Saw the Devil · Screenplay