James Wan
Highest Rated: 94% M3GAN (2022)
Lowest Rated: 9% Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)
Birthday: Feb 26, 1977
Birthplace: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
In 2004, a low-budget film made by two unknown Australians hit the theaters and launched a cultural zeitgeist in horror cinema. But director James Wan insists that he and writer Leigh Whannell never intended to create a new "torture porn" genre of horror with their debut "Saw" (2004) and its villain Jigsaw, represented iconically onscreen by a disturbing puppet named Billy. A look at Wan's body of work supports his assertion; while he went on to produce the increasingly violent sequels in the "Saw" franchise, he did not direct them; and his subsequent contributions to the horror genre, such as "Insidious" (2010) and "The Conjuring" (2013), are in a much more traditional and low-key vein dealing with familiar tropes like evil dolls, haunted houses, possession and witchcraft.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom |
Director, Producer |
- | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Insidious: Fear the Dark | Producer | - | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Salem's Lot | Producer | - | 2023 |
| 94% | 78% | M3GAN | Producer | $82.2M | 2022 |
| 47% | 17% | There's Someone Inside Your House | Producer | - | 2021 |
| 76% | 52% | Malignant |
Director, Producer |
$13.4M | 2021 |
| 55% | 83% | The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | Producer | $65.6M | 2021 |
| 37% | 75% | Spiral: From the Book of Saw | Executive Producer | $23.2M | 2021 |
| 54% | 86% | Mortal Kombat | Producer | $42.2M | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aquaman: King of Atlantis | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
| 64% | 70% | Annabelle Comes Home | Producer | $74.1M | 2019 |
| 28% | 35% | The Curse of La Llorona | Producer | $54.7M | 2019 |
| 65% | 73% | Aquaman | Director | $335.0M | 2018 |
| 25% | 35% | The Nun | Producer | $117.4M | 2018 |
| 33% | 50% | Insidious: The Last Key | Producer | $67.3M | 2018 |
| 32% | 89% | Jigsaw | Executive Producer | $38.0M | 2017 |
| 70% | 68% | Annabelle: Creation | Producer | $102.1M | 2017 |
| 75% | 61% | Lights Out | Producer | $67.3M | 2016 |
| 80% | 81% | The Conjuring 2 |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$102.5M | 2016 |
| 33% | 21% | Demonic | Producer | - | 2015 |
| 57% | 51% | Insidious: Chapter 3 | Producer | $52.2M | 2015 |
| 81% | 82% | Furious 7 | Director | $350.8M | 2015 |
| 28% | 35% | Annabelle | Producer | $84.4M | 2014 |
| 38% | 57% | Insidious: Chapter 2 | Director | $83.6M | 2013 |
| 86% | 83% | The Conjuring | Director | $137.4M | 2013 |
| 66% | 62% | Insidious | Director | $54.0M | 2010 |
| 9% | 41% | Saw: The Final Chapter | Executive Producer | $45.7M | 2010 |
| 39% | 44% | Saw VI | Executive Producer | $27.7M | 2009 |
| 13% | 52% | Saw V | Executive Producer | $56.7M | 2008 |
| 18% | 62% | Saw IV | Executive Producer | $63.3M | 2007 |
| 20% | 60% | Death Sentence | Director | $9.5M | 2007 |
| 20% | 51% | Dead Silence | Director | $16.5M | 2007 |
| 30% | 71% | Saw III | Executive Producer | $80.2M | 2006 |
| 37% | 59% | Saw II | Executive Producer | $87.0M | 2005 |
| 50% | 84% | Saw |
Director, Writer |
$650.1K | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Saw | Director | - | 2003 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 59% | Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles | Executive Producer | 2022 |
| 86% | 74% | Archive 81 | Executive Producer | 2022 |
| 42% | 36% | I Know What You Did Last Summer | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 100% | 62% | Aquaman: King of Atlantis | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 92% | 74% | Swamp Thing | Executive Producer | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | MacGyver | Director | 2016 |