---
name: "Aaron Seltzer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aaron-seltzer"
fi1m_id: "aaron-seltzer"
imdb_id: "nm0783536"
tmdb_id: 35734
wikidata_id: "Q302690"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "12 January 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 58
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T03:08:22.705612+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aaron Seltzer

## Identity

Aaron Seltzer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aaron-seltzer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aaron-seltzer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0783536
- **TMDB ID:** 35734
- **Wikidata ID:** Q302690
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Seltzer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302690, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783536/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35734

Writer. Born 12 January 1974 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 12 January 1974, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- **Active:** 2000–2003
- **Average Fi1m score:** 58, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Seltzer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302690, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783536/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35734

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Scary Movie*](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Aaron Seltzer is a Canadian screenwriter and director. He was born on 12 January 1974 in Mississauga, Ontario, and attended the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Seltzer received a writing credit, alongside Jason Friedberg and others, on the parody film *Scary Movie* (2000). With Friedberg he later wrote and directed *Date Movie* (2006), *Epic Movie* (2007), *Meet the Spartans* (2008), *Disaster Movie* (2008) and *Vampires Suck* (2010). The pair are also credited as the creators of characters for the *Scary Movie* sequels.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Scary Movie 3* (2003), Fi1m 52, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-3.md)
- *Scary Movie* (2000), Fi1m 63, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Scary Movie* (2026), Characters
- *Superfast!* (2015), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Best Night Ever* (2013), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *The Starving Games* (2013), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Scary Movie 5* (2013), Characters
- *Vampires Suck* (2010), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Disaster Movie* (2008), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Meet the Spartans* (2008), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Epic Movie* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Scary Movie 4* (2006), Characters
- *Date Movie* (2006), Director, Writer
- *Scary Movie 3* (2003), Characters — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-3.md)
- *Scary Movie 2* (2001), Characters
- *Scary Movie* (2000), Screenplay — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md)
- *Spy Hard* (1996), Screenplay, Story

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