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James Wan
In 2004, a low-budget film made by two unknown Australians hit the theaters and launched a cultural zeitgeist in horror cinema. But director James Wan insists that he and writer Leigh Whannell never intended to create a new "torture porn" genre of horror with their debut "Saw" (2004) and its villain Jigsaw, represented iconically onscreen by a disturbing puppet named Billy. A look at Wan's body of work supports his assertion; while he went on to produce the increasingly violent sequels in the "Saw" franchise, he did not direct them; and his subsequent contributions to the horror genre, such as "Insidious" (2010) and "The Conjuring" (2013), are in a much more traditional and low-key vein dealing with familiar tropes like evil dolls, haunted houses, possession and witchcraft.
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James Wan
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | M3GAN 2.0 | Producer | - | 2025 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Monkey | Producer | - | 2025 |
| 45% |
|
Salem's Lot | Producer | - | 2024 |
| 20% |
|
Night Swim | Producer | $32.5M | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Conjuring: Last Rites | Producer | - | 2024 |
| 34% |
|
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom |
Director, Producer |
$124.5M | 2023 |
| 81% |
|
Saw X | Executive Producer | $53.4M | 2023 |
| 51% |
|
The Nun II | Producer | $86.3M | 2023 |
| 40% |
|
Insidious: The Red Door | Producer | $82.0M | 2023 |
| 93% |
|
M3GAN | Producer | $95.0M | 2022 |
| 47% |
|
There's Someone Inside Your House | Producer | - | 2021 |
| 77% |
|
Malignant |
Director, Producer |
$13.4M | 2021 |
| 56% |
|
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | Producer | $65.6M | 2021 |
| 38% |
|
Spiral: From the Book of Saw | Executive Producer | $23.2M | 2021 |
| 55% |
|
Mortal Kombat | Producer | $42.2M | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aquaman: King of Atlantis | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
| 64% |
|
Annabelle Comes Home | Producer | $74.1M | 2019 |
| 26% |
|
The Curse of La Llorona | Producer | $54.7M | 2019 |
| 66% |
|
Aquaman | Director | $335.0M | 2018 |
| 24% |
|
The Nun | Producer | $117.4M | 2018 |
| 34% |
|
Insidious: The Last Key | Producer | $67.3M | 2018 |
| 32% |
|
Jigsaw | Executive Producer | $38.0M | 2017 |
| 70% |
|
Annabelle: Creation | Producer | $102.1M | 2017 |
| 75% |
|
Lights Out | Producer | $67.3M | 2016 |
| 80% |
|
The Conjuring 2 |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$102.5M | 2016 |
| 30% |
|
Demonic | Producer | - | 2015 |
| 56% |
|
Insidious: Chapter 3 | Producer | $52.2M | 2015 |
| 82% |
|
Furious 7 | Director | $350.8M | 2015 |
| 28% |
|
Annabelle | Producer | $84.4M | 2014 |
| 38% |
|
Insidious: Chapter 2 | Director | $83.6M | 2013 |
| 86% |
|
The Conjuring | Director | $137.4M | 2013 |
| 66% |
|
Insidious |
Director, Film Editing |
$54.0M | 2010 |
| 9% |
|
Saw: The Final Chapter | Executive Producer | $45.7M | 2010 |
| 39% |
|
Saw VI | Executive Producer | $27.7M | 2009 |
| 13% |
|
Saw V | Executive Producer | $56.7M | 2008 |
| 18% |
|
Saw IV | Executive Producer | $63.3M | 2007 |
| 20% |
|
Death Sentence | Director | $9.5M | 2007 |
| 21% |
|
Dead Silence | Director | $16.5M | 2007 |
| 29% |
|
Saw III | Executive Producer | $80.2M | 2006 |
| 38% |
|
Saw II | Executive Producer | $87.0M | 2005 |
| 50% |
|
Saw |
Director, Writer |
$650.1K | 2004 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Saw | Director | - | 2003 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 67% | Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles | Executive Producer | 2022 |
| 87% | 75% | Archive 81 | Executive Producer | 2022 |
| 41% | 38% | I Know What You Did Last Summer | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 100% | 68% | Aquaman: King of Atlantis | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 92% | 72% | Swamp Thing | Executive Producer | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | MacGyver | Director | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2016 |