Known for Directing
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.
Born
December 9, 1972 (age 53)
Birthplace
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Filmography
16 films, 12 shows


No Escape
2015 · 1h 43m · TH
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.


As Above, So Below
2014 · 1h 33m · US
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.


Devil
2010 · 1h 20m · US
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.


Quarantine
2008 · 1h 29m · ES
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.


The Poughkeepsie Tapes
2007 · 1h 21m · US
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.


The Dry Spell
2005 · 1h 16m · US
48 hours in the life of a guy who can't get laid at the tail end of a 2-year-long dry spell.