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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.

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.

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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!!He Has Written and/or directed:
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* ''Film/HighTension'' (2003)
* ''[[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006 The Hill Have Eyes]]'' (2006, remake of the Creator/WesCraven film)
* ''Film/{{P2}}'' (2007, writer only)
* ''Film/{{Mirrors|2008}}'' (2008)
* ''Film/Piranha3D'' (2010)
* ''Film/{{Maniac|1980}}'' (2012 remake, writer only)
* ''Film/{{Horns}}'' (2014)
* ''The 9th Life Of Louis Drax'' (2016)
* ''Film/{{Crawl}}'' (2019)
* ''Film/{{Oxygen}}'' (2021)
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!!Tropes That Apply to His Works

* BodyHorror
* CreatorsOddball: Two of them, [[{{Downplayed}} although]] both fall into the thriller genre.
** ''The 9th Life Of Louis Drax'', based on the best-selling 2004 novel of the same name by Liz Jensen, is more fantasy-influenced.
** ''Film/{{Oxygen}}'' serves as his first foray into the ScienceFiction genre.
* {{Gorn}}
* SlasherMovie
* 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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