Alexandre Jouan-Arcady (born August 7, 1978) is a French filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre, beginning with his acclaimed French-language breakthrough slasher film High Tension (2003) before making the transition to American films with his remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (2006). He has gone on to direct other notable horror films such as Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), Horns (2013), Crawl (2019), Oxygen (2021) and Never Let Go (2024).

Filmography

• 2027Crawl 2 — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2027Strawberries — Co-Producer
• 2024Never Let Go — Director, Producer
• 2023Night of the Hunted — Producer
• 2023The Blond Boy from the Casbah — Second Unit Director
• 2022Under the Stars — Narrator (voice)
• 2021Oxygen — Producer, Director
• 2019Crawl — Director, Producer
• 2019Crawl — Director, Producer
• 201747 Meters Down — Executive Producer
• 2017Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam — Writer, Director, Producer
• Urban Nightmares — Producer
• 2016The 9th Life of Louis Drax — Director, Producer
• 2016The Other Side of the Door — Producer
• 201424 Days — Assistant Director
• 2014The Pyramid — Producer
• 2013Horns — Director, Producer
• 2013Rock the Casbah — Associate Producer, Script Consultant
• 2012Maniac — Screenplay, Producer
• 2010Piranha 3D — Director, Producer
• 2009The Esseker File — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2008Mirrors — Director, Screenplay
• 2007P2 — Story, Screenplay, Producer
• 2006The Hills Have Eyes — Screenplay, Director
• 2004Mixed Marriage — Second Unit Director
• 2003High Tension — Director, Writer
• 2002Break of Dawn — Second Unit Director, Screenplay
• 2000Return to Algiers — Second Unit Director
• 1999Furia — Screenplay, Director
• 1997Over the Rainbow — Writer, Director
• 1992The Big Pardon 2 — Alexander Atlan
• 1989Brothers in Arms — The child with the skateboard
• 1983Le Grand Carnaval — Raphaël Labrouche
• 1982The Big Pardon — L'enfant
• Dead by Daylight — Screenplay
• Mice and Mystics — Director, Writer
• Smart House — Producer
• The Flowers of Evil — Director, Screenplay
• Under Paris 2 — Director, Writer, Associate Producer

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2024Jaws, a Monstrous Success — Self - director
• 2019Beyond Blood — Self
• 2017Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur — Self
• 2016Fury of the Demon — Self
• 2015Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw — Self
• 2014Why Horror? — Self
• 2013Du sang sur la neige — Self
• 2013Maniac: The Making of Documentary — Self
• 2011Don't Scream, Just Swim: Behind-the-Scenes of 'Piranha 3D' — Self
• 2010Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies — Self
• 2010French Meat — Self
• 2010The Splat Pack — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self