Declan O'Brien

Directing

Declan O'Brien

Born — Died

1965-12-21 — 2022-02-16

Place of birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

20 titles

Declan O'Brien was the President of Fairport Filmworks as well as a writer, director and producer. He directed the third, fourth and fifth films of the Wrong Turn series, with the latter two also serving as writer. Most recently, he directed Roger Corman's horror flick Sharktopus and has worked with Syfy writing the film The Snake King.

Known for

Behind the camera

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings poster
5.8

A group of friends take refuge in a deserted sanatorium after they are left stranded in a snowstorm. Later, the place becomes a death trap when man-eating cannibals surround them.

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

2011

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings poster
5.8

A group of friends take refuge in a deserted sanatorium after they are left stranded in a snowstorm. Later, the place becomes a death trap when man-eating cannibals surround them.

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

2011

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead poster
5.7

A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured inbred cannibals.

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead

2009

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines poster
5.5

A small West Virginia town is hosting the legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where throngs of costumed party goers gather for a wild night of music and mischief. But an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals kill the fun when they trick and treat themselves to a group of visiting college students.

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

2012

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines poster
5.5

A small West Virginia town is hosting the legendary Mountain Man Festival on Halloween, where throngs of costumed party goers gather for a wild night of music and mischief. But an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals kill the fun when they trick and treat themselves to a group of visiting college students.

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

2012

The Marine 3: Homefront poster
6.2

A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped sister and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.

The Marine 3: Homefront

2013

Joy Ride 3 poster
5.6

Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, an encounter with Rusty turns sour and soon he is tracking, teasing and torturing them until the end of the road.

Joy Ride 3

2014

Joy Ride 3 poster
5.6

Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, an encounter with Rusty turns sour and soon he is tracking, teasing and torturing them until the end of the road.

Joy Ride 3

2014

Sharktopus poster
4.1

The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.

Sharktopus

2010

Miami Magma poster
5.8

Antoinette Vitrini, a volcanologist, confirms her theory of a long-dormant underground volcano after an offshore-drilling rig bursts into flames. Now, she must stop catastrophic amounts of magma from pumping out right under Miami, Florida.

Miami Magma

2011

Harpies poster
4.6

Jason Avery is an ex-cop now working as a museum security guard. Armed thieves break in intent on stealing a priceless obelisk that's stored within this vault-like stone structure. The scientist behind the theft talks of the obelisk giving him the power to control harpies, demonic winged female monsters of classic mythology. Through a series of contrived events, the obelisk opens a time portal that Jason promptly falls into, crash landing over a thousand years in the past in a land threatened by evil harpies.

Harpies

2007

Cyclops poster
4.9

The corrupt Emperor Tiberius forces his bravest general, Marcus, to subdue the monstrous Cyclops that has been decimating the countryside...

Cyclops

2008

SnakeMan poster
5.6

An object is found that points to the secret of eternal youth so a research team is sent to find the fountain only to find it is protected by a giant snake

SnakeMan

2005

Hijacked poster
4.0

A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.

Hijacked

2012

Monster Ark poster
4.6

Archaeologist Nicholas Zavaterro and his student find an antique vase with an inscription that points to where Noah's Ark is hidden. They decide to go looking, but things get out of control when they encounter opposing forces, including a monster named Tama.

Monster Ark

2008

Monster Ark poster
4.6

Archaeologist Nicholas Zavaterro and his student find an antique vase with an inscription that points to where Noah's Ark is hidden. They decide to go looking, but things get out of control when they encounter opposing forces, including a monster named Tama.

Monster Ark

2008

Alice Upside Down poster
5.7

Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her father Ben buys a store and moves her and her older brother Lester to a new town.

Alice Upside Down

2007

Rock Monster poster
5.0

A college student, traveling with his friends to a remote eastern-European village, unwittingly releases the Rock Monster from it's ancient slumber to wreak havoc on the surrounding countryside

Rock Monster

2008

Rock Monster poster
5.0

A college student, traveling with his friends to a remote eastern-European village, unwittingly releases the Rock Monster from it's ancient slumber to wreak havoc on the surrounding countryside

Rock Monster

2008

Bahr al Nojoum poster
NR

A young man lives in a coastal tourist city, where he helps his father manage the family business, which is suffering from financial hardship. He is thinking of getting out of it by working to revive his town, which has long been associated with music and singing. He agrees with his sister and grandfather to revive a festival that his grandfather and friend held in the town twenty years ago. He begins his journey by agreeing with leading singers to participate in the festival, which begins as a dream and turns into a dazzling reality.

Bahr al Nojoum

2008