Christopher Landon

Writing

Christopher Landon

Born 1975-02-27 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Christopher Beau Landon (born February 27, 1975) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for working in the horror and comedy horror genre. He has worked as a screenwriter on the thriller Disturbia and most films in the Paranormal Activity found-footage horror series. He wrote and directed Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, as well as the horror comedy films Happy Death Day, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, Happy Death Day 2U, Freaky, and We Have a Ghost. He wrote and made his directorial debut on the satirical thriller  Burning Palms (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Landon (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse poster
6.6

Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

2015

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse poster
6.6

Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

2015

Happy Death Day poster
6.7

Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.

Happy Death Day

2017

Happy Death Day poster
6.7

Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.

Happy Death Day

2017

Drop poster
6.3

Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.

Drop

2025

Disturbia poster
6.7

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

Disturbia

2007

We Have a Ghost poster
6.4

After Kevin finds a ghost named Ernest haunting his new home, he becomes an overnight social media sensation. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of the latter's past, they become targets of the CIA.

We Have a Ghost

2023

We Have a Ghost poster
6.4

After Kevin finds a ghost named Ernest haunting his new home, he becomes an overnight social media sensation. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of the latter's past, they become targets of the CIA.

We Have a Ghost

2023

Heart Eyes poster
6.2

When the "Heart Eyes Killer" strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine's Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now, they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.

Heart Eyes

2025

Heart Eyes poster
6.2

When the "Heart Eyes Killer" strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine's Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now, they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives.

Heart Eyes

2025

Paranormal Activity 3 poster
5.9

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

Paranormal Activity 3

2011

Paranormal Activity 4 poster
5.4

It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.

Paranormal Activity 4

2012

Freaky poster
6.5

A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

Freaky

2020

Freaky poster
6.5

A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

Freaky

2020

Happy Death Day 2U poster
6.3

Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.

Happy Death Day 2U

2019

Happy Death Day 2U poster
6.3

Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.

Happy Death Day 2U

2019

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones poster
5.4

Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

2014

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones poster
5.4

Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

2014

Time Cut poster
5.6

A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister. Can she change the past without destroying the future?

Time Cut

2024

Paranormal Activity 2 poster
5.8

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

Paranormal Activity 2

2010

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin poster
6.1

Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding a sinister secret.

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

2021

Viral poster
5.8

Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.

Viral

2016

Blood and Chocolate poster
5.6

A young teenage werewolf is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man.

Blood and Chocolate

2007

Burning Palms poster
5.2

A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate

Burning Palms

2010