Brian Duffield

Brian Duffield (born November 5, 1985) is an American filmmaker. He wrote and directed the 2026 survival thriller film Whalefall, the 2023 sci-fi horror film No One Will Save You and the 2020 dark comedy coming-of-age film Spontaneous. His previous writing credits include Love and Monsters (2020), Underwater (2020), The Babysitter (2017) and Insurgent (2015). He is known for having multiple spec scripts featured in The Black List, an industry log of highly regarded but unproduced screenplays, including his scripts for Jane Got a Gun (2015) and Your Bridesmaid is a Bitch. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Duffield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

6.4

Insurgent

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

Release Date2015-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10487

6.7

No One Will Save You

A lonely woman battles extraterrestrials who threaten her future while forcing her to face her past.

Release Date2023-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1517

6.3

Underwater

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

Release Date2020-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3510

7.3

Love and Monsters

Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

Release Date2020-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4500

Skull Island
7.1

Skull Island

Shipwrecked in the South Pacific, a group of explorers encounter a menagerie of fearsome creatures — including the giant ape who rules the island: Kong.

Release Date2023-06-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count104

6.2

The Babysitter

When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.

Release Date2017-10-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count3936

6.0

Cocaine Bear

Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.

Release Date2023-02-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2467

6.3

The Babysitter: Killer Queen

Two years after defeating a satanic cult led by his babysitter Bee, Cole's trying to forget his past and focus on surviving high school. But when old enemies unexpectedly return, Cole will once again have to outsmart the forces of evil.

Release Date2020-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count1867

5.7

Borderline

After escaping from a mental hospital, a violent sociopath named Paul begins a dangerous rampage targeting Sofia, a world-famous pop star. Obsessed with her, he takes Sofia hostage in her own home, acting under the delusional belief that they are getting married. Paul is desperate to prove his devotion, leading to a tense and unpredictable situation.

Release Date2025-03-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count176

Skeletons

A young boy slowly begins to discover that his beloved parents are hiding a disturbing secret about his mother’s true nature.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

5.8

Jane Got a Gun

After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.

Release Date2015-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count882

Siren Head

Based on the internet horror phenomenon about a giant, emaciated humanoid predator hunting in rural towns and wooded areas across North America, which blends into environments and emits creepily distorted audio broadcasts to confuse and lure in prey. Further plot details TBA.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Whalefall

Following the death of his father, Jay Gardiner goes diving off the central Coast of California in search of his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale. While trapped inside its belly with only one hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize that the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.

Release Date2026-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

6.8

Spontaneous

When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.

Release Date2020-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Vote Count592

Quarantine

A couple and their young daughter fight to survive the breakout of the Simian Flu virus that has taken a heavy toll on the human population soon after the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Old Ballgame

When a disgraced baseball player receives a midnight offer to relive his glory days from a mysterious Coach, he slides headfirst into a nightmare world of peanuts, cracker jacks, and death.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Good Luck in the Land of Mañana

Two sisters race their crazy uncle out to Jaroso, Colorado to rescue their recently deceased grandmother's paintings before their uncle can sell them all.

Release Date2018-07-30

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer