---
name: "Matt Bettinelli-Olpin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matt-bettinelli-olpin"
fi1m_id: "matt-bettinelli-olpin"
imdb_id: "nm2366012"
tmdb_id: 66681
wikidata_id: "Q6788348"
roles: ["Director","Producer"]
born: "19 February 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T05:21:14.324682+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."
---

# Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

## Identity

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matt-bettinelli-olpin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matt-bettinelli-olpin
- **IMDb ID:** nm2366012
- **TMDB ID:** 66681
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6788348
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bettinelli-Olpin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6788348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2366012/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66681

Director and producer. Born 19 February 1978 in Oakland, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer
- **Born:** 19 February 1978, Oakland, California, USA
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Also known as:** Matt, Chad, Matt & Rob, Radio Silence, Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 3 directing, 2 producing, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Guy Busick](https://film.one/person/guy-busick.md), [James Vanderbilt](https://film.one/person/james-vanderbilt.md), [Tyler Gillett](https://film.one/person/tyler-gillett.md), [Melissa Barrera](https://film.one/person/melissa-barrera.md), [Paul Neinstein](https://film.one/person/paul-neinstein.md), [William Sherak](https://film.one/person/william-sherak.md), [Bradley J. Fischer](https://film.one/person/bradley-j-fischer.md), [Jasmin Savoy Brown](https://film.one/person/jasmin-savoy-brown.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 54 (1), 2020s 59 (5)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Horror 3, Thriller 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $351m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bettinelli-Olpin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6788348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2366012/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66681

## Coming up

- *The Mummy 4* (2027-10-14), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Scream*](https://film.one/film/scream-2022.md) (66), [*Scream VI*](https://film.one/film/scream-vi.md) (65)

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

## Fi1m on Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

> Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, never without Tyler Gillett, makes horror films that lock the doors, announce the rules and let the bodies burst. The set pieces are the reason to go. The talk between them is where his films lose us.

A house with the doors locked, a set of rules somebody is about to break, and a body that does not so much bleed as go off. That is a Radio Silence film, and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin has never made one without Tyler Gillett beside him. The two share every credit, from a segment of the anthology *V/H/S* (2012) to *Abigail* (2024), and it is fair to treat the work as one signature with two hands. The signature is horror that is also a comedy and also, by the last reel, an action film, staged in one building that gets smaller as the night goes on.

Bettinelli-Olpin came to it sideways. He played guitar and wrote lyrics for the East Bay punk band Link 80 from 1993, worked as a music journalist, and formed the short-film collective Chad, Matt & Rob in 2007 while in the New Line Cinema mailroom. Radio Silence followed in 2011, with Chad Villella producing, then *Devil's Due* (2014) and *Southbound* (2015). *Ready or Not* (2019), in which a bride spends her wedding night being hunted through her in-laws' house, is the film that made the pair's name and set the template. Since then the work has been bigger and louder: *Scream* (2022), *Scream VI* (2023) and *Abigail*, which is *Ready or Not* with the furniture rearranged and a twelve-year-old vampire in place of the bride.

What works is the set piece. The fifth *Scream* opens with a sequence we called first-rate and earns its 18 certificate with kills nastier than the series had managed in years; the sixth takes Ghostface to New York, gives him a shotgun, and produces two more of the best. The gore is practical and proud of it. *Abigail*'s vampires burst rather than bleed, and Alisha Weir's small monster is superb. The first time a body went off in *Abigail* we laughed, loudly, and were slightly embarrassed to notice we wanted it to happen again. Bettinelli-Olpin is good with a crowd, too: David Arquette in the 2022 film caught us off guard entirely.

What does not work is the talking. The 2022 *Scream* stops every ten minutes to tell you what kind of film it is, and by the second hour we had heard enough. *Scream VI* is tired between its set pieces and builds towards the weakest mystery in the series. *Abigail*, which owes nothing to a franchise and could have been ninety minutes of chase, is twenty minutes too long and cannot stop explaining its own rules. Guy Busick, who wrote both *Scream* films with James Vanderbilt and has worked with the pair four times, is the common thread; but three films with the same fault means the habit belongs to the directors.

A sequel to *Ready or Not* is due in 2026. We would like somebody to run through a large house and for nobody, at any point, to stop and tell them what the rules are.

## Biography

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin is an American film director, writer, actor and musician. He is a founding member of the East Bay punk band Link 80 and co-creator of the filmmaking collectives Chad, Matt & Rob and Radio Silence.

He first gained recognition in the found-footage genre with the Radio Silence segment “10/31/98” in *V/H/S* (2012). With Tyler Gillett he co-directed the horror features *Devil’s Due* (2014), a segment of *Southbound* (2015), *Ready or Not* (2019), *Scream* (2022), *Scream VI* (2023) and *Abigail* (2024). He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

### Directed (3) — the average rests on these

- *Abigail* (2024), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/abigail.md)
- *Scream VI* (2023), Fi1m 65, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/scream-vi.md)
- *Scream* (2022), Fi1m 66, as Party Guest (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/scream-2022.md)

### Produced (2)

- *Scream 7* (2026), Fi1m 48, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/scream-7.md)
- *Fountain of Youth* (2025), Fi1m 48, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/fountain-of-youth.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Hancock* (2008), Fi1m 54, as Reporter (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/hancock.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *The Mummy 4* (2027), Director
- *Ready or Not: Here I Come* (2026), Director, Executive Producer
- *Scream 7* (2026), Executive Producer — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/scream-7.md)
- *Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Fountain of Youth* (2025), Executive Producer — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/fountain-of-youth.md)
- *Stereo-Vision* (2024), as Tyler
- *Full Moon Glory Hole* (2024), Producer
- *Abigail* (2024), Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/abigail.md)
- *V/H/S/85* (2023), Producer
- *Scream VI* (2023), Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/scream-vi.md)
- *V/H/S/99* (2022), Producer
- *Scream* (2022), as Party Guest (voice) (uncredited) · Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/scream-2022.md)
- *V/H/S/94* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Ready or Not* (2019), Director
- *Southbound* (2015), as Jack · Director, Writer, Editor
- *Devil's Due* (2014), Director
- *V/H/S* (2012), as Matt (segment "10/31/98") · Director, Writer, Editor
- *Hancock* (2008), as Reporter (uncredited) — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/hancock.md)
- *Damaged Goods* (2006), Actor
- *White Power* (2001), as Matt
- *The Ice Beneath Her*, Producer, Director
- *Loser*, Producer
- *Something Murdered*, Executive Producer
- *Man Vs.*, Executive Producer
- *Taylor Lautner: Werewolf Hunter*, series, Executive Producer
- *White Elephant*, Producer
- *Untiled Choose Your Own Adventure Film*, Director, Producer
- *Breedlove*, Producer
- *Thud*, Executive Producer
- *The Robots Go Crazy*, Director, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Link 80 reunion show. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/11669/gallery-2c1a31e340ba.jpg) Link 80 reunion show. (2016) — Link80fan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Link_80_Reunion.jpg/1280px-Link_80_Reunion.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Link 80 at 924 Gilman street in 1997. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (guitarist). (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/11669/gallery-93821c0fc800.jpg) Link 80 at 924 Gilman street in 1997. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (guitarist). (2013) — Clarkandellen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Link_80_at_924_Gilman.jpg/1280px-Link_80_at_924_Gilman.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Link 80 at the train tracks and Gilman Street. 1996. Adam Pereria, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Aaron Nagel, Joey Bustos, Nick Traina. Berkeley, California. (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/11669/gallery-5906dcf7d39b.jpg) Link 80 at the train tracks and Gilman Street. 1996. Adam Pereria, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Aaron Nagel, Joey Bustos, Nick Traina. Berkeley, California. (2010) — Clarkandellen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Link_80_at_the_train_tracks.jpg/1280px-Link_80_at_the_train_tracks.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Matt Bettinelli-Olpin](https://film.one/media/person/11669/gallery-ea20055c8c9b.jpg) Matt Bettinelli-Olpin — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Matt_Bettinelli-Olpin_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Matt_Bettinelli-Olpin_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Matt Bettinelli-Olpin](https://film.one/media/person/11669/gallery-04965804716a.jpg) Matt Bettinelli-Olpin — Image via TMDB
- ![Matt Bettinelli-Olpin](https://film.one/media/person/11669/gallery-b2a0b27e6ce2.jpg) Matt Bettinelli-Olpin — Image via TMDB
- ![Matt Bettinelli-Olpin](https://film.one/media/person/11669/gallery-2417f9ec6a5a.jpg) Matt Bettinelli-Olpin — Image via TMDB

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