Sean Byrne

Directing

Sean Byrne

Place of birth

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Sean Byrne is an Australian filmmaker. He is best known for directing the horror films The Loved Ones (2009), The Devil's Candy (2015) and Dangerous Animals (2025).

Known for

Behind the camera

Dangerous Animals poster
6.4

A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

Dangerous Animals

2025

The Loved Ones poster
6.7

When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.

The Loved Ones

2010

The Loved Ones poster
6.7

When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.

The Loved Ones

2010

The Devil's Candy poster
6.3

A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

The Devil's Candy

2016

The Devil's Candy poster
6.3

A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

The Devil's Candy

2016

No artwork available
NR

Charley and Sadie are thrown into a fast-escalating nightmare involving a manhunt for a serial killer.

The Mannequin

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No artwork available
NR

Charley and Sadie are thrown into a fast-escalating nightmare involving a manhunt for a serial killer.

The Mannequin

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Advantage Satan poster
5.4

A young couple stumble home after a big night out. Their frisky interlude at a suburban tennis club lands them a role in a far more sinister, supernatural game, and their opponents have a distinct home court advantage...

Advantage Satan

2007

No artwork available
NR

A young man alone on an open road, waits for a ride to nowhere in particular. He encounters a couple of gray nomads in a hearse, who take him on a demented journey towards his destiny.

Sunday

2000

Sport poster
7.0

Set in the near future. The ban on all performance enhancing drugs has been lifted. The pressure to perform has never been greater and the risks fatal. Winning is Everything. Tragedy is Entertainment. Controversy is media gold.

Sport

1999

No artwork available
10.0

Work? is a documentary about Bec's first experience as a sex worker catering for women.

Work?

2000

No artwork available
8.0

An emotionally abused teenage boy fights against insanity after his mother's violent suicide in a car crash when he was nine-years-old.

Ben

2001