C. Robert Cargill

C. Robert Cargill

1975-09-08 San Antonio, Texas, USA 25 Credits

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.

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Black Phone 2

Black Phone 2

2025

Writer, Producer

Writing Producing

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

Man Finds Tape

2025

Executive Producer

10.0
Producing

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

The Gorge

2025

Producer

7.7
Producing

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

House of Ashes

2024

Co-Producer

Producing

Grieving widow Mia must survive psychological and supernatural horrors while under house arrest.

V/H/S/85

V/H/S/85

2023

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

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

Something in the Dirt

2022

as Radio Host

5.8
Acting

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

The Black Phone

2022

Screenplay, Producer

7.6
Writing Producing

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

Shadowprowler

2021

Writer, Executive Producer

5.3
Writing Producing

A teenage boy tries to hide from a sinister figure prowling around the house.

No Man of God

No Man of God

2021

Writer

6.6
Writing

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

My Valentine

2020

Executive Producer

5.6
Producing

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

Lemon Drink

2017

as Screen Creep

5.0
Acting

A young woman must come to terms with her boyfriend's odd personality trait.

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange

2016

Writer

7.4
Writing

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

As They Continue to Fall

2016

Writer

4.5
Writing

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

Sinister 2

2015

Writer, Characters

5.9
Writing

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

Sinister

Sinister

2012

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

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

Zombie Girl: The Movie

2009

as Self

6.4
Acting

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

When Is Tomorrow

2007

as Stephen

1.0
Acting

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

Pathogen

2006

as Janitor

4.8
Acting

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

The Rules of Attraction

2002

as Bus Station Townie (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

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

Writing

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

Dogwood

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

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

Producing

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

Producing

Bermuda

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

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

Writing Producing

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...