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Justin Benson

Born June 9, 1983 · San Diego, California, USA (age 43)

Justin Benson (born June 9, 1983) is an American filmmaker who works with his filmmaking partner, Aaron Moorhead. Both have served in directing, producing, editing, and acting roles in their projects, while Moorhead is also a cinematographer and Benson is a writer. Their films primarily centre around science fiction or horror elements. The duo have also contributed to several television series wit…

Known For

The Endless

The Endless · 2017

MovieScience FictionHorror

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

Synchronic

Synchronic · 2020

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

V/H/S: Viral

V/H/S: Viral · 2014

MovieHorrorThriller

As the streets of Los Angeles overflow with camera-wielding gawkers seeking to capture images of a bizarre police pursuit, the same people who sought to exploit the suffering of others for amusement on the Internet become the stars of a gruesome viral video from which no one gets out alive.

Spring

MovieHorrorRomance

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

Touch Me

Touch Me · 2026

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.

She Dies Tomorrow

She Dies Tomorrow · 2020

She Dies Tomorrow

Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.

Contracted: Phase II

Contracted: Phase II · 2015

Contracted: Phase II

MovieHorrorThriller

Picking up directly where the previous film left off, the story follows Riley, one of the last people to come in contact with Samantha, as he scrambles to track down those responsible for the outbreak before the highly contagious disease not only consumes his body, but the world as we know it.

Things Will Be Different

Things Will Be Different · 2024

Things Will Be Different

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

In order to escape the police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.

Filmography

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The Endless

The Endless · 2017

MovieScience FictionHorror

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

Director

Synchronic

Synchronic · 2020

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

Director

V/H/S: Viral

V/H/S: Viral · 2014

MovieHorrorThriller

As the streets of Los Angeles overflow with camera-wielding gawkers seeking to capture images of a bizarre police pursuit, the same people who sought to exploit the suffering of others for amusement on the Internet become the stars of a gruesome viral video from which no one gets out alive.

Producer

Spring

MovieHorrorRomance

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

Director

Touch Me

Touch Me · 2026

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.

Executive Producer

She Dies Tomorrow

She Dies Tomorrow · 2020

She Dies Tomorrow

Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.

Producer

Contracted: Phase II

Contracted: Phase II · 2015

Contracted: Phase II

MovieHorrorThriller

Picking up directly where the previous film left off, the story follows Riley, one of the last people to come in contact with Samantha, as he scrambles to track down those responsible for the outbreak before the highly contagious disease not only consumes his body, but the world as we know it.

Handsome Officer

Things Will Be Different

Things Will Be Different · 2024

Things Will Be Different

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

In order to escape the police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.

Executive Producer

Man Finds Tape

Man Finds Tape · 2025

MovieHorrorMystery

Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.

Producer

Descendent

Descendent · 2025

MovieDramaHorror

After a traumatic brain injury triggers terrifying visions of extraterrestrials and a newfound talent for drawing, a father-to-be begins to question his reality and becomes obsessed with the need to protect his family from an unseen threat.

Producer

Resolution

Resolution · 2013

MovieHorrorThriller

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

Writer

Something in the Dirt

Something in the Dirt · 2022

Something in the Dirt

MovieComedyHorror

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.

Director

Lynch/Oz

Lynch/Oz · 2023

MovieDocumentary

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.

Host (Chapter 5: 'Judy') (voice)

A.M.

A young woman encounters a bizarre presence on a desolate desert highway.

Writer

Ideation

MovieScience Fiction

Centers on a group of corporate consultants who work together on a mysterious and ethically ambiguous project for the government.

Producer

Dementia

Dementia · 2015

MovieHorrorThriller

After being diagnosed with dementia, an elderly war veteran is forced by his estranged family to hire a live-in nurse, only to find she harbors a sinister secret.

Nurse Hollings

After Midnight

After Midnight · 2019

MovieDramaHorror

Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.

Producer

Straight Outta OZ

Straight Outta OZ · 2016

Straight Outta OZ

MovieMusicFantasy

This visual album features artists Nicole Scherzinger, Jordin Sparks, Perez Hilton, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Amber Riley, Raven Symoné and Tamar Braxton among others, telling the emotional story of Broadway star Todrick Hall's upbringing and rise to fame as a gay black man in the entertainment business, while holding the theme of 'The Wizard of Oz'.

Director of Photography

Jacques the Giant Slayer

Jacques the Giant Slayer · 2025

Jacques the Giant Slayer

MovieFantasyHorror

In the early 20th century, an archaeologist discovers the skeleton of a human giant. A new and original version of the mythological fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk.

Director

Rock Bottom

Rock Bottom · 2019

Rock Bottom chronicles the cosmic/comic misadventures of a girl undergoing a life crisis after she locks herself out of her apartment with no pants on and is thereby forced to confront her emotional, philosophical, and logistical problems.

Producer

Breathing Happy

Breathing Happy · 2022

Breathing Happy

In this mind-bending drama, a recovering drug addict can achieve one year of sobriety alone on Christmas day, but his demons tempt him to relapse.

Mystery Door (voice)

Plague Town

Plague Town · 2009

MovieHorrorThriller

An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.

Production Coordinator

Pruning

Pruning · 2023

When a far-right political commentator discovers she has inspired a mass shooting, she must contend with her conscience – by any means necessary.

Producer

Fatale Collective: Bleed

Fatale Collective: Bleed · 2019

Fatale Collective: Bleed

In this brisk six-shooter anthology, an ensemble of women share entertainingly twisted tales that span disturbing subjects and sick styles through decidedly feminist lenses.

Theodore (segment "Boxed")

Loki

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

Executive Producer

Daredevil: Born Again

Daredevil: Born Again · 2025

Daredevil: Born Again

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

Director

Moon Knight

Moon Knight · 2022

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.

Director

Archive 81

Archive 81 · 2022

SeriesDramaMystery

An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.

Director