John Erick Dowdle

John Erick Dowdle (born December 9, 1972) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for horror films. He usually works with his brother Drew Dowdle as a producer and co-screenwriter. With his brother Drew Dowdle as a producer and/or co-screenwriter, John Erick Dowdle directed the horror films Quarantine, Devil, based on a storybook from M. Night Shyamalan, and As Above, So Below, as well as the 2015 thriller film No Escape. In 2017, Dowdle co-created the miniseries Waco with his brother, which aired on Paramount Network in 2018.

Works

The Dry Spell

THE DRY SPELL chronicles 48 hours in the life of a guy who can't get laid at the tail end of a 2-year-long dry spell.

Release Date2005-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Free Clinic Doctor

Vote Count1

As Above, So Below

When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones that lies beneath the streets of Paris, they embark on a journey into madness and terror.

Release Date2014-08-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3621

Joe Pickett

A game warden and his family navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming on the verge of economic collapse. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered.

Release Date2021-12-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count75

Waco: The Aftermath

Explore the wide-ranging fallout succeeding the tragic events that took place in Waco, TX: the trials of the surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect and the rise of homegrown terrorist, Timothy McVeigh.

Release Date2023-04-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count5

Vote Count44

No Escape

In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

Release Date2015-08-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2596

Quarantine

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

Release Date2008-10-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1294

Waco

The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.

Release Date2018-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count219

Devil

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.

Release Date2010-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2954

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.

Release Date2007-04-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count683

Transcendent Man

The compelling feature-length documentary film, by director Barry Ptolemy, chronicles the life and controversial ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil. For more than three decades, inventor, futures, and New York Times best-selling author Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future.

Release Date2009-04-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count42

School for Scumbags

An often-expelled student finds a home at the Gafin School for "misdirected" teens -- an institution run by professional thieves.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Friday Night Lights

A look at the lives of young American football players in a small town Del Rio, Texas. A remake of the 2004 film.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector