Biography
Christopher Robert Cargill (born September 8, 1975) is an American screenwriter, actor, author, podcast host and a former film critic. He is best known for writing the films Sinister (2012), Sinister 2 (2015), Doctor Strange (2016), No Man of God (2021) and The Black Phone (2021). He is the co-founder of film and television production company Crooked Highway.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Black Phone 2
2025
Writer, Producer
As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his sister begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing v...

Man Finds Tape
2025
Executive Producer
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only t...

The Gorge
2025
Producer
Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, t...

House of Ashes
2024
Co-Producer
Grieving widow Mia must survive psychological and supernatural horrors while under house arrest.

V/H/S/85
2023
Screenplay
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the gr...

Something in the Dirt
2022
as Radio Host
When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fam...

The Black Phone
2022
Screenplay, Producer
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use...

Shadowprowler
2021
Writer, Executive Producer
A teenage boy tries to hide from a sinister figure prowling around the house.

No Man of God
2021
Writer
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.

My Valentine
2020
Executive Producer
A pop singer's artistic identity is stolen by her ex-boyfriend/manager and shamelessly pasted onto his new girlfriend/protégé. Locked together late on...

Lemon Drink
2017
as Screen Creep
A young woman must come to terms with her boyfriend's odd personality trait.

Doctor Strange
2016
Writer
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to de...

As They Continue to Fall
2016
Writer
A man hunts divine beings in a city that is falling into decrepitude. The society may have turned its back on him, but that doesn't stop him from movi...

Sinister 2
2015
Writer, Characters
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

Sinister
2012
Screenplay
True-crime writer Ellison Oswald is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So...

Zombie Girl: The Movie
2009
as Self
Emily Hagins is making a zombie movie. It's feature-length, it's bloody, and the zombies don't run. Just like it should be. But there's just one diffe...

When Is Tomorrow
2007
as Stephen
Ron, a successful poet from New York who has not seen his old friend Jake in five years. On the eve of Jake's wedding Ron shows up to be his best man ...

Pathogen
2006
as Janitor
An infection which appears to be caused by a bacteria in the water turns out to be more. A fourteen-year-old student, Dannie, feels the real cause is ...

The Rules of Attraction
2002
as Bus Station Townie (uncredited)
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a...
The Night of the Hunter
N/A
Screenplay
Harry Powell, a serial killer posing as a preacher, marries a widow solely to gain access to her deceased husband’s hidden fortune. Powell’s stepchild...

Dogwood
N/A
Executive Producer
Left abandoned and neglected on the streets, Shadow, a lost puppy, is taken in by a stranger and his dog, Elsie. In his new home, he learns the meanin...
Retrograde
N/A
Executive Producer
Follows a top military soldier who discovers that a brilliant scientist, who is her former lover, is dangerously meddling with the fabric of time, try...
Room 428
N/A
Producer
Bermuda
N/A
Screenplay
Plot details are being kept under wraps, except for the fact that it will be set in the mysterious patch of the Caribbean where planes and ships have ...
Road of Bones
N/A
Screenplay, Producer
An American film crew travels to Siberia to cover an elusive ghost story about the Kolyma Highway, a 2000 km road built on top of the bones of prisone...