Johannes Roberts

Johannes Roberts

Birth : 1976-05-24, Cambridge, England, UK

History

Johannes Roberts (born May 24, 1976 in Cambridge, England) is a British writer-director who has worked primarily in the horror genre. He is best known for his supernatural horror film "The Other Side of the Door" (2016), shark thrillers "47 Meters Down" (2017) and its sequel (2019), and slasher movie "The Strangers: Prey at Night" (2018).

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Johannes Roberts
Johannes Roberts

Movies

Suicide Bid
Director
Are girl partakes in a claustrophobic hazing ritual for a sorority that soon unleashes the supernatural.
V/H/S/99
Screenplay
A teenager’s home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations.
V/H/S/99
Director
A teenager’s home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Writer
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Director
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
The Plague
Writer
A short proof-of-concept for a feature film about spiders that breed inside of human beings.
The Plague
Director
A short proof-of-concept for a feature film about spiders that breed inside of human beings.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Executive Producer
Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Screenplay
Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Director
Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Director
A family’s road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked killers pay them a visit to test the family’s every limit as they struggle to survive.
47 Meters Down
Writer
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
47 Meters Down
Director
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
The Other Side of the Door
Writer
Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her daughter becomes the focus of terror. She must now protect against the evil that was once her beloved son.
The Other Side of the Door
Director
Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her daughter becomes the focus of terror. She must now protect against the evil that was once her beloved son.
Turn Off Your Bloody Phone
Director
A collection of PSAs played in front of films at FrightFest 2012, reminding patrons to switch off their phones in a variety of gruesome and horrific ways.
Storage 24
Screenplay
Something nasty is lurking inside a secure storage unit. When a group of people get trapped inside, they need to find a way to get out of a building that's designed to keep things in...
Storage 24
Director
Something nasty is lurking inside a secure storage unit. When a group of people get trapped inside, they need to find a way to get out of a building that's designed to keep things in...
Roadkill
Director
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
F
Writer
A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous kids when their school comes under siege after hours.
F
Director
A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous kids when their school comes under siege after hours.
When Evil Calls
Writer
When Evil Calls centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students of Wilburn High School their wildest desires.
When Evil Calls
Director
When Evil Calls centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students of Wilburn High School their wildest desires.
Forest of the Damned
Screenplay
A group of friends go on a roadtrip and come to a stop in a forest where legend has it a group of naked bisexual female monsters lurk. Will they awaken them? And if so will they survive?
Forest of the Damned
Director
A group of friends go on a roadtrip and come to a stop in a forest where legend has it a group of naked bisexual female monsters lurk. Will they awaken them? And if so will they survive?
Darkhunters
Screenplay
Walking the Earth as an undead spirit has Charlie Jackson in a quandary. Unable to interact with his family, Charlie feels he's been forsaken by God. Now, his ultimate goal is to get to heaven as soon as possible - but that's easier said than done. The battle between good and evil for Charlie's soul has begun, and salvation might only come via Carol Miller, a darkhunter who brings lost souls back to death.
Darkhunters
Producer
Walking the Earth as an undead spirit has Charlie Jackson in a quandary. Unable to interact with his family, Charlie feels he's been forsaken by God. Now, his ultimate goal is to get to heaven as soon as possible - but that's easier said than done. The battle between good and evil for Charlie's soul has begun, and salvation might only come via Carol Miller, a darkhunter who brings lost souls back to death.
Darkhunters
Director
Walking the Earth as an undead spirit has Charlie Jackson in a quandary. Unable to interact with his family, Charlie feels he's been forsaken by God. Now, his ultimate goal is to get to heaven as soon as possible - but that's easier said than done. The battle between good and evil for Charlie's soul has begun, and salvation might only come via Carol Miller, a darkhunter who brings lost souls back to death.
Hellbreeder
Original Music Composer
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger who Alice suspects of being the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind
Hellbreeder
Producer
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger who Alice suspects of being the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind
Hellbreeder
Writer
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger who Alice suspects of being the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind
Hellbreeder
Director
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger who Alice suspects of being the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind
Sanitarium
Writer
A generation ago, Dr Max Warick was researching a mysterious experimental drug which was scientifically proven to cure certain types of madness. But as the most deranged test subjects miraculously regained their sanity, the control patients, who were given no drugs at all, suffered horrific consequences. Because no one could find the cause of such deadly side effects, the experiments were stopped. But now twenty years later, a new set of hospital officials are about to release the drug into the marketplace. And the only man who can prevent this terror from eating away at the masses has since traded in his lab coat for a straight jacket.
Sanitarium
Director
A generation ago, Dr Max Warick was researching a mysterious experimental drug which was scientifically proven to cure certain types of madness. But as the most deranged test subjects miraculously regained their sanity, the control patients, who were given no drugs at all, suffered horrific consequences. Because no one could find the cause of such deadly side effects, the experiments were stopped. But now twenty years later, a new set of hospital officials are about to release the drug into the marketplace. And the only man who can prevent this terror from eating away at the masses has since traded in his lab coat for a straight jacket.
The Not Polly
Director
Polly, the most beautiful and popular girl in school, wakes up after a party to find that she is trapped in a morgue, apparently dead, with no reflection, no pulse and no heartbeat. To make matters worse, she has been possessed.
Flight
Director
A contained thriller set on an international flight. Plot TBA.