Johannes Roberts
Birthdate: May 24, 1976
Birthplace: Cambridge, England, UK
Johannes Roberts (birthname: Johannes Christopher Edward Roberts) is a British filmmaker specializing in the horror genre, making his theatrical feature debut as director/writer (after several direct-to-video low-budget horror entries) with the slasher movie, F (2010), (also titled in some territories as The Expelled), starring David Schofield, Eliza Bennett, Ruth Gemmell and Juliet Aubrey, premiering at the London Film Festival and released by Optimum Releasing. Roberts was director/co-writer of the sci-fi horror movie, Storage 24 (2012), co-written/produced by lead actor Noel Clarke, with Colin O’Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, and Laura Haddock, and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Roberts was once again director/co-writer of a horror movie—this time in the supernatural vein—titled The Other Side of the Door (2016), co-starring Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, and Sofia Rosinsky, produced by Alexandre Aja, Rory Aitken, and Ben Pugh, and returning a $14 million gross for distributor 20th Century Fox.
Roberts hit box-office paydirt with his next horror movie (in the survival sub-genre mode), 47 Meters Down (2017), co-starring Claire Holt and Mandy Moore, produced by James Harris and Mark Lane and released by Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures (North America)/Entertainment One (United Kingdom) to a robust $62.6 million return; Roberts returned as director/co-writer/executive producer for the sequel, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019), starring new cast members Sophie Nelisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Stallone and Nia Long, and grossing an excellent $47.6 million.
Johannes Roberts was director only of another box office hit, the slasher sequel The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), co-written by Bryan Bertino and Ben Ketai, starring Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman and earning an excellent $32 million (based on estimated costs) return for lead producer Rogue Pictures/Bloom and distributors Aviron Pictures (U.S.)/Vertigo Releasing (U.K.).
Roberts was director/writer of the U.S./Germany/U.K.-backed Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021), the seventh live-action movie in the series (and first not to star Milla Jovovich), starring Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Donal Logue and Neal McDonough, and earning $42 million via release by Screen Gems (U.S.-U.K.)/Constantin Film (Germany)/Metropolitan Filmexport (France).
Roberts took on a different brand of horror movie that didn’t involve monsters, zombies or the supernatural as director/co-writer (with his regular writing collaborator Ernest Riera) of Primate (2025), produced by 18hz Productions and released wide by Paramount Pictures, with a cast led by Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur and Kae Alexander, and which launched to strong reviews at Fantastic Fest.
Roberts returned to the 47 Meters Down franchise as co-writer only (with Riera) of the third entry in the series, subtitled The Wreck (date to be announced), starring Troy Kotsur under Patrick Lussier’s direction and produced by Allen Media Group and Tea Shop Productions. Johannes Roberts was the producer of another horror movie, again directed by Patrick Lussier and co-written by Simon Boyes and Adam Mason, titled Play Dead (2022), which co-starred Bailee Madison and Jerry O’Connell, and was released in a limited pattern by Voltage Pictures.
Personal life
Johannes Roberts was born and raised in Cambridge, England, by his parents. Roberts’s height is 6’ 1½ ”.
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Johannes Roberts Movies
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Set in 1998, this origin story explores the secrets of the mysterious Spencer Mansion and the ill-fated Raccoon City.
- 2019 |
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Two sisters diving in a ruined underwater city quickly learn they've entered the territory of the deadliest shark species in the claustrophobic labyrinth of submerged caves.
- 2018 |
The Strangers: Prey at Night
A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths.
- 2017 |
47 Meters Down
Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive.
- 2016 |
The Other Side of the Door
After her young son is killed in a tragic accident, a woman learns of a ritual which will bring him back to say goodbye, but when she disobeys a sacred warning, she upsets the balance between life and death.
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Facts About Johannes Roberts
Cell Phone Cinema: Johannes Roberts takes credit for being the director/writer of the first short series shot on cell phones, titled When Evil Calls (2006); Roberts’s other short films include American Werewolf in London (2012), The Plague (2020), and Suicide Bid (2022), a segment of the omnibus movie, V/H/S/99.
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