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2 | Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, better known as Alexandre Aja (born 7 August 1978) is a French film director and is one of the most notable modern horror auters. |
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4 | He has been unofficially dubbed a member of the "Splat Pack", a movement in modern horror towards {{Gorn}}-y realistic depictions of hyper-violence, which includes [[Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera Darren Lynn Bousman]], [[Film/TheDescent Neil Marshall]], [[Film/WolfCreek Greg McLean]], Creator/RobertRodriguez, Creator/EliRoth, Creator/JamesWan, [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Leigh Whannell]], and Music/RobZombie. |
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6 | Aja rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film ''Film/HighTension'', and has since been carving quite a genre career for himself in America with high-profile and high-budget horror remakes. |
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8 | !!He Has Written and/or directed: |
9 | [[index]] |
10 | * ''Film/HighTension'' (2003) |
11 | * ''[[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006 The Hill Have Eyes]]'' (2006, remake of the Creator/WesCraven film) |
12 | * ''Film/{{P2}}'' (2007, writer only) |
13 | * ''Film/{{Mirrors|2008}}'' (2008) |
14 | * ''Film/Piranha3D'' (2010) |
15 | * ''Film/{{Maniac|1980}}'' (2012 remake, writer only) |
16 | * ''Film/{{Horns}}'' (2014) |
17 | * ''The 9th Life Of Louis Drax'' (2016) |
18 | * ''Film/{{Crawl}}'' (2019) |
19 | * ''Film/{{Oxygen}}'' (2021) |
20 | [[/index]] |
21 | !!Tropes That Apply to His Works |
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23 | * BodyHorror |
24 | * CreatorsOddball: Two of them, [[{{Downplayed}} although]] both fall into the thriller genre. |
25 | ** ''The 9th Life Of Louis Drax'', based on the best-selling 2004 novel of the same name by Liz Jensen, is more fantasy-influenced. |
26 | ** ''Film/{{Oxygen}}'' serves as his first foray into the ScienceFiction genre. |
27 | * {{Gorn}} |
28 | * SlasherMovie |
29 | * SpiritualAntithesis: ''Film/{{Crawl}}'' serves as this to ''Film/Piranha3D'', another horror film about killer aquatic animals. Whereas ''Piranha 3D'' was PlayedForLaughs with tons of BlackComedy and BloodyHilarious gore, ''Crawl'' is a straightforward horror movie that treats its predators as a serious threat. |
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