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James Wan

Highest Rated: 93% M3GAN (2022)

Lowest Rated: 9% Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)

Birthday: Feb 26, 1977

Birthplace: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

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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Highest rated movies

93% 78% M3GAN Watchlist
86% 83% The Conjuring
Watchlist
82% 82% Furious 7 Watchlist 81% 88% Saw X Watchlist 80% 81% The Conjuring 2 Watchlist 77% 52% Malignant Watchlist 75% 61% Lights Out Watchlist 70% 68% Annabelle: Creation Watchlist 66% 72% Aquaman Watchlist 66% 62% Insidious Watchlist

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% 39% Salem's Lot Producer - 2024
20% 43% Night Swim Producer $32.5M 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Conjuring: Last Rites Producer - 2024
34% 81% Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Director,
Producer
$124.5M 2023
81% 88% Saw X Executive Producer $53.4M 2023
51% 73% The Nun II Producer $86.3M 2023
40% 69% Insidious: The Red Door Producer $82.0M 2023
93% 78% M3GAN Producer $95.0M 2022
47% 18% There's Someone Inside Your House Producer - 2021
77% 52% Malignant Director,
Producer
$13.4M 2021
56% 83% The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Producer $65.6M 2021
38% 75% Spiral: From the Book of Saw Executive Producer $23.2M 2021
55% 86% Mortal Kombat Producer $42.2M 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Aquaman: King of Atlantis Executive Producer - 2021
64% 70% Annabelle Comes Home Producer $74.1M 2019
26% 35% The Curse of La Llorona Producer $54.7M 2019
66% 72% Aquaman Director $335.0M 2018
24% 35% The Nun Producer $117.4M 2018
34% 49% Insidious: The Last Key Producer $67.3M 2018
32% 88% Jigsaw Executive Producer $38.0M 2017
70% 68% Annabelle: Creation Producer $102.1M 2017
75% 61% Lights Out Producer $67.3M 2016
80% 81% The Conjuring 2 Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$102.5M 2016
30% 22% Demonic Producer - 2015
56% 51% Insidious: Chapter 3 Producer $52.2M 2015
82% 82% Furious 7 Director $350.8M 2015
28% 35% Annabelle Producer $84.4M 2014
38% 57% Insidious: Chapter 2 Director $83.6M 2013
86% 83% The Conjuring Director $137.4M 2013
66% 62% Insidious Director,
Film Editing
$54.0M 2010
9% 41% Saw: The Final Chapter Executive Producer $45.7M 2010
39% 51% Saw VI Executive Producer $27.7M 2009
13% 52% Saw V Executive Producer $56.7M 2008
18% 62% Saw IV Executive Producer $63.3M 2007
20% 60% Death Sentence Director $9.5M 2007
21% 51% Dead Silence Director $16.5M 2007
29% 71% Saw III Executive Producer $80.2M 2006
38% 59% Saw II Executive Producer $87.0M 2005
50% 84% Saw Director,
Writer
$650.1K 2004
No Score Yet 71% 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% 39% 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