John Erick Dowdle

John Erick Dowdle

1972-12-09 St. Paul, Minnesota, United States 10 Credits

Biography

John Erick Dowdle (born December 9, 1972) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for horror films. He usually works with his brother Drew Dowdle as a producer and co-screenwriter. With his brother Drew Dowdle as a producer and/or co-screenwriter, John Erick Dowdle directed the horror films Quarantine, Devil, based on a storybook from M. Night Shyamalan, and As Above, So Below, as well as the 2015 thriller film No Escape. In 2017, Dowdle co-created the miniseries Waco with hi...

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No Escape

No Escape

2015

Director, Writer

6.9
Directing Writing

In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an...

As Above, So Below

As Above, So Below

2014

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones that lies beneath the streets of Paris, they embark on a journey into madness and t...

Devil

Devil

2010

Director

6.1
Directing

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.

Transcendent Man

Transcendent Man

2009

Executive Producer

6.7
Producing

The compelling feature-length documentary film, by director Barry Ptolemy, chronicles the life and controversial ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil. For m...

Quarantine

Quarantine

2008

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns huma...

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

2007

Writer, Director, Story

6.6
Writing Directing

When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign...

The Dry Spell

The Dry Spell

2005

as Free Clinic Doctor

1.0
Acting

THE DRY SPELL chronicles 48 hours in the life of a guy who can't get laid at the tail end of a 2-year-long dry spell.

The Dry Spell

The Dry Spell

2005

Director, Writer, Editor

1.0
Directing Writing

THE DRY SPELL chronicles 48 hours in the life of a guy who can't get laid at the tail end of a 2-year-long dry spell.

School for Scumbags

School for Scumbags

N/A

Director

Directing

An often-expelled student finds a home at the Gafin School for "misdirected" teens -- an institution run by professional thieves.

Friday Night Lights

N/A

Screenplay, Director

Writing Directing

A look at the lives of young American football players in a small town Del Rio, Texas. A remake of the 2004 film.