Jeff Howard

Writing

Jeff Howard

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, U.S

Known for

Writing

Credits

9 titles

Jeff Howard is an American writer and producer who has worked extensively in the genre space. On the television front, Jeff was a writer on the first season of Netflix's horror series The Haunting of Hill House (2018), as well as Resident Evil (2022). His most recent television work was as an executive producer of Midnight Mass (2021). Jeff got his start in the feature space co-writing the Blumhouse hit Oculus (2013) with Mike Flanagan. He also has shared writing credits on Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) for Universal Studios and Gerald's Game (2017) for Netflix.

Known for

Behind the camera

Ouija: Origin of Evil poster
6.2

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

Ouija: Origin of Evil

2016

Gerald's Game poster
6.4

When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

Gerald's Game

2017

Before I Wake poster
6.5

An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.

Before I Wake

2016

Oculus poster
6.5

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

Oculus

2014

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NR

When citizens in a small town start to go missing, a police officer faces off against a mysterious gang of grinning weirdos to find her son and keep him safe.

Peekers

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Untitled Phineas and Ferb Movie poster
NR

Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s latest time‑travel experiment backfires, erasing the moment Phineas’ mom meets Ferb’s dad — meaning the boys never become brothers and every day is merely adequate. As reality unravels and the future hangs in the balance, Phineas and Ferb must restore the timeline before it’s too late.

Untitled Phineas and Ferb Movie

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NR

Following a break up, a young woman finds herself under attack by blood-sucking bats.

Bloodsucking Darkness

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Permanent Damage poster
7.0

Four young suburban men try to establish themselves as organized criminals in their hum-drum local community.

Permanent Damage

1992

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NR

A frustrated writer named Drew Larson. With an acclaimed short story to his credit who turns to academia because each time he’s got a good book idea, something terrible happens. He is determined to write an idea for a Western, and heads out to an old family cabin in the woods determined to get it done. Severe storms occur and he makes a Faustian bargain with a rat to alleviate his writer’s block. Larson believes it was done in a dream state of delirium, but finds when he returns home that he made a rat pact to trade success for the life of a loved one…

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