Simon Barrett (born 1978) is an American filmmaker and actor. He frequently collaborates with director Adam Wingard. He is best known for writing the films You're Next (2011), The Guest (2014), Blair Witch (2016), Azrael (2024) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). He made his feature directorial debut with the film Seance (2021).

Filmography

• 2026Onslaught — Producer, Story, Screenplay
• 2024Azrael — Writer, Producer, Second Unit Director
• 2024Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire — Screenplay, Story
• 2023Head Count — Executive Producer
• 2023Heard She Got Murdered — Executive Producer
• 2021Seance — Director, Screenplay
• 2021V/H/S/94 — Writer, Director
• 2017Temple — Screenplay
• 2017The Day That Broke — Supporting Artist
• 2016Always Shine — Producer #2 (uncredited)
• 2016Blair Witch — Writer, Co-Producer
• 2014ABCs of Death 2 — Assassin's Employer (segment "A")
• 2014The Guest — Writer, Executive Producer
• 2014The Last Survivors — Compound Soldier
• 201324 Exposures — Michael Bamfeaux
• 2013All the Light in the Sky
• 2013Contracted — BJ
• 2013The ABCs of Death — Simon (segment "Q is for Quack), Writer
• 2013V/H/S/2 — Steve (segment "Tape 49"), Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Set Photographer
• 2013You're Next — Tiger Mask, Producer, Writer
• 2012V/H/S — Steve (segment "Tape 56"), Writer, Camera Operator, Producer
• 2011Autoerotic — Writer
• 2011What Fun We Were Having: 4 Stories About Date Rape — Writer
• 2010A Horrible Way to Die — Olsen, Writer, Producer, First Assistant Director, Casting, Music Supervisor, Post Production Supervisor, Location Manager
• 2009Red Sands — Matt Carson, Writer, Co-Producer
• 2005Dead Birds — Writer, Co-Producer
• 2004Frankenfish — Writer
• 2000The Nothing Deal — Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
• Face/Off 2 — Screenplay
• I Saw the Devil — Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2024Generation Terror — Self
• 2021Outside the Law: The Scanner Cop Revolution — Self
• 2020Tales of the Uncanny — Self
• 2017Neverending Night: The Making of Blair Witch — Self
• 2014Why Horror? — Self