Leigh Whannell films, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 23 films on Boxlist

Known for The Matrix Reloaded, 78/52 and Insidious.

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Saw
2004 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their...
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78/52
2017 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.
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The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo...
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Wolf Man
2025 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and...
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Aquaman
2018 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast army at his disposal, Orm plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people and then the surface world...
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Insidious
2010 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight...
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Saw II
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan...
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Insidious: Chapter 2
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
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Death Sentence
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when...
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Saw III
2006 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble...
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Insidious: The Red Door
2023 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind...
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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm, 'The Further'.
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The Mule
2014 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.
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Saw 3D
2010 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.
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Cooties
2014 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.
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Crush
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.
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Raze
2013 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
After Sabrina is abducted, she finds herself in an underground lair, forced to do battle with other innocent women for the amusement of unseen spectators. Each of these reluctant warriors has something to lose, but only one will remain...
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The Bye Bye Man
2017 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all...
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Keep Watching
2017 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers...
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