Javier Botet

Acting

Javier Botet

Born 1977-07-30 · Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha, Spain

Son of Augustin Rodriguez and Andres Botet Servilia Maria del Carmen Lopez Nieto. After living his first five years in his hometown, due to the work of his father, he moved to live another five years to Cuenca, followed by two years in Almería and finally to Granada where he lived until graduating from Fine Arts in 2001 . In 2002 he moved to Madrid where he lived until 2009 at least. At 5 years you are diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome, and is involved in Madrid to solve your pectus excavatum, at age 20 because of back problems and later at 28 to prevent problems themselves aortic disease. Hypermobility of certain tissues that carries this syndrome give extremely long, thin fingers and a height of 2 meters and a peculiar physical aspect, coupled with his willingness to performing arts, offered his first chance in the world of cinema in a horror film directed by Brian Yuzna: Beneath stil water (2005); after these follow other special success, especially Rec (2007), directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza; He has also acted as occasional actor in numerous television serials such as Planta 25, The looming, Genesis, Los hombres de Paco and Pluto BRB Nero etc. In 2010 Botet embodies one of the roles of Frankenstein (same rendering two actors play the monster) in the stage adaptation titled Frankenstein, directed by Gustavo Tambascio and which shares the bill with players like Raul Eduardo Peña or Casanova.La play was performed in the Canal Theatre in the Community of Madrid. Plays the haunting "Mama" Mama's hit movie produced by Guillermo del Toro released in 2013. Coming shoot a movie with Neve Campbell and Dougray Scott called Division 19.

Acting credits

Insidious: The Last Key poster
6.3

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

Insidious: The Last Key

2018

The Revenant poster
7.5

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

The Revenant

2015

It poster
7.2

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

It

2017

The Conjuring 2 poster
7.3

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

The Conjuring 2

2016

It Chapter Two poster
6.8

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

It Chapter Two

2019

Do Not Enter poster
6.3

A group of young explorers investigates an old abandoned hotel, only to encounter a strange supernatural being and a competing group looking for a legendary hidden treasure.

Do Not Enter

2026

Mama poster
6.3

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

Mama

2013

The Mummy poster
5.5

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

The Mummy

2017

Crimson Peak poster
6.7

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Crimson Peak

2015

The Last Voyage of the Demeter poster
6.7

The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

2023

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark poster
6.5

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

2019

[REC] poster
7.2

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

[REC]

2007

[REC]³ Genesis poster
5.3

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

[REC]³ Genesis

2012

Slender Man poster
4.3

In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.

Slender Man

2018

Polaroid poster
6.0

High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her friends must survive one more night as they race to solve the mystery of the haunted Polaroid before it kills them all.

Polaroid

2019

[REC]² poster
6.6

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

[REC]²

2009

The Last Circus poster
6.7

A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.

The Last Circus

2010

[REC]⁴ Apocalypse poster
5.6

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

[REC]⁴ Apocalypse

2014

Mara poster
5.7

Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.

Mara

2018

The Other Side of the Door poster
5.5

Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her daughter becomes the focus of terror. She must now protect against the evil that was once her beloved son.

The Other Side of the Door

2016

The Invisible Guardian poster
6.5

When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…

The Invisible Guardian

2017

32 Malasana Street poster
6.5

Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the country, the Olmedo family arrives in the big city and settles into their new apartment. They soon discover that they are not the only ones roaming its corridors.

32 Malasana Street

2020

His House poster
6.4

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

His House

2020

Hostile poster
6.0

Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only come out at nighttime.

Hostile

2018

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