Rene Perez

Directing

Rene Perez

Rene Perez is an American film director, writer, and editor known for his work in the horror and action genres. Born and raised in Oakland, California, Perez started writing and drawing comic books as a child and later became a musician known as 'The Darkest Machines'. He is recognized for films such as Playing with Dolls: Havoc (2017) and Death Kiss (2018), where he also served as cinematographer and editor.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Playing with Dolls poster
3.0

A serial killer is purposely released from an asylum for the criminally insane so that he can continue his rampage.

Playing with Dolls

2015

Playing with Dolls poster
3.0

A serial killer is purposely released from an asylum for the criminally insane so that he can continue his rampage.

Playing with Dolls

2015

Cry Havoc poster
3.4

An ambitious young reporter is granted an interview with one of the FBI's most wanted. While entering his compound she finds one of his prized possessions, a serial killer who murders at call, called HAVOC. Her only hope is a rogue police man searching for his daughter.

Cry Havoc

2020

Cry Havoc poster
3.4

An ambitious young reporter is granted an interview with one of the FBI's most wanted. While entering his compound she finds one of his prized possessions, a serial killer who murders at call, called HAVOC. Her only hope is a rogue police man searching for his daughter.

Cry Havoc

2020

Little Red Riding Hood poster
3.4

A Brother Grimm's Horror Version of the Classic Fairytale.

Little Red Riding Hood

2015

Little Red Riding Hood poster
3.4

A Brother Grimm's Horror Version of the Classic Fairytale.

Little Red Riding Hood

2015

Death Kiss poster
5.2

A vigilante with a mysterious past becomes a one-man army in a crime-infested town as he takes the law into his own hands, at the same time protecting a young mother and her daughter. He sets his sights on a local kingpin, setting up an action-packed and fateful confrontation.

Death Kiss

2018

Death Kiss poster
5.2

A vigilante with a mysterious past becomes a one-man army in a crime-infested town as he takes the law into his own hands, at the same time protecting a young mother and her daughter. He sets his sights on a local kingpin, setting up an action-packed and fateful confrontation.

Death Kiss

2018

Alien Showdown: The Day the Old West Stood Still poster
2.3

An alien scout lands on earth in the year 1854. The creature is searching for water and food. Once it finds what it needs, it will call in an invasion fleet. A lone cowboy must stand against the alien invader or all will be lost.

Alien Showdown: The Day the Old West Stood Still

2013

Alien Showdown: The Day the Old West Stood Still poster
2.3

An alien scout lands on earth in the year 1854. The creature is searching for water and food. Once it finds what it needs, it will call in an invasion fleet. A lone cowboy must stand against the alien invader or all will be lost.

Alien Showdown: The Day the Old West Stood Still

2013

Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust poster
3.8

Stina a single mother has fallen on hard times. When she has hit rock bottom she is offered a job on a reality horror show, with the promise of a million dollars to the winner. The group of contestants are taken to the deep woods where they must fight to be the last man/woman not caught by the slasher. Unbeknownst to the contestants the slasher is not an actor. They have just started a game that may be their last.

Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust

2016

Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust poster
3.8

Stina a single mother has fallen on hard times. When she has hit rock bottom she is offered a job on a reality horror show, with the promise of a million dollars to the winner. The group of contestants are taken to the deep woods where they must fight to be the last man/woman not caught by the slasher. Unbeknownst to the contestants the slasher is not an actor. They have just started a game that may be their last.

Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust

2016

Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust poster
3.8

Stina a single mother has fallen on hard times. When she has hit rock bottom she is offered a job on a reality horror show, with the promise of a million dollars to the winner. The group of contestants are taken to the deep woods where they must fight to be the last man/woman not caught by the slasher. Unbeknownst to the contestants the slasher is not an actor. They have just started a game that may be their last.

Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust

2016

The Burning Dead poster
3.5

A sheriff must rescue an estranged family from the impending eruption of a volcano, at the same time fighting off a horde of lava-filled zombies brought to life by the cursed mountains.

The Burning Dead

2015

Playing with Dolls: Havoc poster
4.9

When serial killer Havoc escapes from his prison, there is no holding back. He descends upon unsuspecting lovers in their cabin get away. The world's most brutal killer is loose and his thirst for blood cannot be stopped.

Playing with Dolls: Havoc

2017

Playing with Dolls: Havoc poster
4.9

When serial killer Havoc escapes from his prison, there is no holding back. He descends upon unsuspecting lovers in their cabin get away. The world's most brutal killer is loose and his thirst for blood cannot be stopped.

Playing with Dolls: Havoc

2017

Sleeping Beauty poster
6.2

The beautiful Aurora is cursed into everlasting sleep by an evil witch for a crime she didn't commit. The brave Commander of the Guard, William, embarks on a quest inspired by both love and loyalty to free the doomed princess. He travels into the dark forest where he encounters a friendly elf that helps him on his quest, a dangerous wizard with no love for royalty or evil, a deadly assassin, and a ravenous creature that preys on human flesh before the final confrontation that will determine Aurora's fate.

Sleeping Beauty

2014

Sleeping Beauty poster
6.2

The beautiful Aurora is cursed into everlasting sleep by an evil witch for a crime she didn't commit. The brave Commander of the Guard, William, embarks on a quest inspired by both love and loyalty to free the doomed princess. He travels into the dark forest where he encounters a friendly elf that helps him on his quest, a dangerous wizard with no love for royalty or evil, a deadly assassin, and a ravenous creature that preys on human flesh before the final confrontation that will determine Aurora's fate.

Sleeping Beauty

2014

Once Upon a Time in Deadwood poster
4.4

A notorious gunslinger is slipped a slow-acting poison by an heiress and told he has three days to track down and rescue her sister, who has been kidnapped by a gang of hoodlums and holds the antidote.

Once Upon a Time in Deadwood

2019

Once Upon a Time in Deadwood poster
4.4

A notorious gunslinger is slipped a slow-acting poison by an heiress and told he has three days to track down and rescue her sister, who has been kidnapped by a gang of hoodlums and holds the antidote.

Once Upon a Time in Deadwood

2019

The Dragon Unleashed poster
5.0

A martial artist, trained by the military to become an assassin, begins to question himself after killing someone who didn't deserve to die. He now must face not only his demons, but his ...

The Dragon Unleashed

2018

The Dragon Unleashed poster
5.0

A martial artist, trained by the military to become an assassin, begins to question himself after killing someone who didn't deserve to die. He now must face not only his demons, but his ...

The Dragon Unleashed

2018

The Insurrection poster
4.5

A CEO (Wilma Elles) from the world’s largest telecommunications company is about to expose secrets of how the left wing media uses movies to control the masses at the behest of their deep state overseers in the political arena. As her secrets are revealed through a series of live broadcasts, her former associates send private military contractors to assassinate her. She hires a condemned ex-Commando (Michael Paré) to keep her alive long enough to get her crucial message out to the world.

The Insurrection

2020

The Insurrection poster
4.5

A CEO (Wilma Elles) from the world’s largest telecommunications company is about to expose secrets of how the left wing media uses movies to control the masses at the behest of their deep state overseers in the political arena. As her secrets are revealed through a series of live broadcasts, her former associates send private military contractors to assassinate her. She hires a condemned ex-Commando (Michael Paré) to keep her alive long enough to get her crucial message out to the world.

The Insurrection

2020