Directing

Jordan Downey

Born

1986-05-16 (40)

Place of birth

Newark, Ohio, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

30 titles

IMDb profile Official site

Jordan Downey is a writer and director from Granville, Ohio. He moved to Los Angeles at eighteen to study film at Loyola Marymount University, where he began his professional career interning at Midnight Pictures, the production banner co-founded by Wes Craven. After making his feature debut with the cult horror comedy ThanksKilling, Downey developed a distinctive filmmaking style rooted in atmosphere, economy, and bold genre storytelling. His medieval thriller The Head Hunter brought wider recognition, earning multiple festival awards and numerous Best Actor honors for breakout star Christopher Rygh. Its success led to larger opportunities, including Stork, his segment in the Critics Choice…

Known for

6.6

The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.

V/H/S/Beyond

2024

9.0

A daughter unravels her father's dark past after his body, missing for 36 years, is found at a horrific crime scene.

The Cycle

2026

5.4

On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.

The Head Hunter

2019

3.9

An evil, fowl-mouthed turkey carves up college students on Thanksgiving break.

ThanksKilling

2008

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After a futuristic soldier is left for dead, a synthetic angel — the latest in battlefield A.I. — assists her in fighting against the clock to survive a mortal wound.

Override

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3.3

A fowl-mouthed turkey and a cast of outrageous puppets embark on a surreal quest to find the lost sequel, ThanksKilling 2.

ThanksKilling 3

2012

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

3.3

A fowl-mouthed turkey and a cast of outrageous puppets embark on a surreal quest to find the lost sequel, ThanksKilling 2.

ThanksKilling 3

2012

5.2

An alien bounty hunter enters a scene of suburban carnage, where something out of this world has been feeding on humans.

Critters: Bounty Hunter

2014

2000s · 2 titles

3.9

An evil, fowl-mouthed turkey carves up college students on Thanksgiving break.

ThanksKilling

2008

3.0

In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium

2005

Behind the camera

6.6

The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.