Alexandre Aja
1978 (46 лет)His surname, Aja, is derived from the initials of his full name. Born in Paris, he is the son of Alexandre Arcady, a Jewish French pied-noir director, and cinema critic Marie-Jo Jouan. Aja began his career in minor acting roles in his father's films before making his directorial debut at eighteen with the short Over the Rainbow, which was nominated for a Cannes Golden Palm. He became well-known in the horror genre with Haute Tension and later directed the remake of The Hills Have Eyes at the request of Wes Craven.
In addition to Mirrors and Piranha 3D, he produced the 2012 remake of Maniac and directed Horns and The 9th Life of Louis Drax. Aja is set to direct adaptations of Space Adventure Cobra and Mice and Mystics for DreamWorks Animation. His 2019 film Crawl is his most successful and critically acclaimed project to date.
Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies
Luc Lagier
Alexandre Aja, Eli Roth
In recent years, horror cinema has become an unavoidable phenomenon whether in America, Asia or Europe. Zombies, viruses and apocalypses have become familiar elements of popular culture. What do the horror films of the 2000's reveal about our world, about our politics, about ourselves? Why such a revival of horror today?
Cinémas d'Horreur - Apocalypse, Virus, Zombies
Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam
Alexandre Aja
Robert Englund, Saras Gil
Long before written language, cinema or television, there were campfire stories. Youth scaring the living bejeezus out of each other on dark nights at summer camp is a tradition as rich and eternal as the earliest campfire tales.
Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam
La rage du Démon
Fabien Delage
Alexandre Aja, Dave Alexander
An investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.
Fury of the Demon
The Hills Have Eyes
Alexandre Aja
Aaron Stanford, Vinessa Shaw
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
The Hills Have Eyes
Crawl
Alexandre Aja
Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper
When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.
Crawl
Le Grand Pardon
Alexandre Arcady
Roger Hanin, Jean-Louis Trintignant
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
The Big Pardon
Piranha 3D
Alexandre Aja
Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O'Connell
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.
Piranha 3D
