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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
No Escape
2015
Director, Writer
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
2014
Director, Writer
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
2010
Director
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
Transcendent Man
2009
Executive Producer
The compelling feature-length documentary film, by director Barry Ptolemy, chronicles the life and controversial ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil. For m...
Quarantine
2008
Director, Writer
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
2007
Writer, Director, Story
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
2005
as Free Clinic Doctor
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
2005
Director, Writer, Editor
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
N/A
Director
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
A look at the lives of young American football players in a small town Del Rio, Texas. A remake of the 2004 film.