
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 | |||||
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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 | ||||
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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 |