Biography
Brad Anderson (born 1964 in Madison, Connecticut) is an American film director. He has worked primarily in the thriller and horror genres, and is best known for directing "Session 9" (2001), starring Peter Mullan, "The Machinist" (2004), starring Christian Bale, and "The Call" (2013), starring Halle Berry.
Known For
Complete Filmography
World-Breaker
2025
Director
Five years ago, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. A father hides his...
The Silent Hour
2024
Director
While working a case as an interpreter, a hearing-impaired police detective must confront a group of criminals trying to eliminate a deaf murder witne...
Blood
2023
Executive Producer, Director
Jess, a newly separated mother and nurse, moves into her old family farmhouse with Tyler, her teenage daughter, and Owen, her eight-year-old son. One ...
Fractured
2019
Director
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to ...
Beirut
2018
Director
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsibl...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
2018
as Self
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES is a project that examines horror culture and filmmaking in the New England area. Through the stories of industry prof...
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
Director
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea ...
The Call
2013
Director
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can co...
Vanishing on 7th Street
2010
Director
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of surv...
TransSiberian
2008
Screenplay, Director
A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious p...
Sounds Like
2006
Director, Writer
Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive ...
The Machinist
2004
Director
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to ...
Session 9
2001
Director, Editor, Screenplay
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Happy Accidents
2000
Writer, Director, Editor
A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary ...
Next Stop Wonderland
1998
Director, Writer, Editor
Dumped by her loser boyfriend, Erin's love life hits rock bottom when her overbearing mother places an embarrassing ad in the "personals" section of a...
The Darien Gap
1996
Director
A twenty-something slacker is moving to the south in hopes of capturing a picture of the giant sloth, and finally make a fortune in this low-key affai...
Frankenstein's Planet of Monsters!
1995
Producer, Director, Editor
Three female astronauts are tricked into landing on a barren planet ruled by a Frankenstein monster. They promptly get thrown in a dungeon and are lat...
Wake Up! On the Road with a Zen Master
1992
Director, Director of Photography
Zen Master Seung Sahn’s teaching documentary is a professional and entertaining film that captures his energy while presenting the core of his teachin...
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
1992
Costumer
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she bu...
The Dagon
N/A
Director
When their eldest daughter comes of age, a family taking shelter in an isolated rural house must confront the terrifying, deadly creatures that surrou...
Twilight of the Dead
N/A
Director
The dead rose, the world fell, and life has all but disappeared. On a remote tropical island, the last of the living are caught between factions of th...
The Dwarf
N/A
Director
A Machiavellian dwarf in a medieval Italian court brings the kingdom to the brink of ruin by manipulating the prince he serves.