---
name: "Simon Barrett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simon-barrett"
fi1m_id: "simon-barrett"
imdb_id: "nm1440023"
tmdb_id: 83858
wikidata_id: "Q18002667"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "29 July 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T04:16:17.693324+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."
---

# Simon Barrett

## Identity

Simon Barrett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simon-barrett
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simon-barrett
- **IMDb ID:** nm1440023
- **TMDB ID:** 83858
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18002667
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Barrett_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18002667, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1440023/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83858

Writer and producer. Born 29 July 1978 in Columbia, Missouri, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 29 July 1978, Columbia, Missouri, USA
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Adam Wingard](https://film.one/person/adam-wingard.md), [Dan Stevens](https://film.one/person/dan-stevens.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 58 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 63 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 3, Thriller 2, Adventure 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $578m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Barrett_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18002667, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1440023/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83858

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Guest*](https://film.one/film/the-guest.md) (77)
- **Apple TV:** [*Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire*](https://film.one/film/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire.md) (57)

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## Biography

Simon Barrett is an American screenwriter, producer and actor. Born in 1978 in Columbia, Missouri, he has frequently collaborated with director Adam Wingard on genre films.

He wrote *You're Next* (2011), *The Guest* (2014), *Blair Witch* (2016) and *Azrael* (2024). Barrett co-wrote the story and screenplay for *Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire* (2024) and provided the story and screenplay for *Onslaught* (2026), on which he also served as producer. He made his feature directorial debut with *Seance* (2021).

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Onslaught* (2026), Fi1m 58, Screenplay, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/onslaught.md)
- *Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire* (2024), Fi1m 57, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire.md)
- *The Guest* (2014), Fi1m 77, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-guest.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Onslaught* (2026), Producer, Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/onslaught.md)
- *Azrael* (2024), Writer, Producer, Second Unit Director
- *Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire* (2024), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire.md)
- *Head Count* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Heard She Got Murdered* (2023), Executive Producer
- *V/H/S/94* (2021), Writer, Director
- *Seance* (2021), Director, Screenplay
- *Temple* (2017), Screenplay
- *The Day That Broke* (2017), as Supporting Artist
- *Always Shine* (2016), as Producer #2 (uncredited)
- *Blair Witch* (2016), Writer, Co-Producer
- *ABCs of Death 2* (2014), as Assassin's Employer (segment "A")
- *The Guest* (2014), Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-guest.md)
- *The Last Survivors* (2014), as Compound Soldier
- *All the Light in the Sky* (2013), Actor
- *You're Next* (2013), as Tiger Mask · Producer, Writer
- *24 Exposures* (2013), as Michael Bamfeaux
- *Contracted* (2013), as BJ
- *V/H/S/2* (2013), as Steve (segment "Tape 49") · Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Set Photographer
- *The ABCs of Death* (2013), as Simon (segment "Q is for Quack) · Writer
- *V/H/S* (2012), as Steve (segment "Tape 56") · Writer, Camera Operator, Producer
- *What Fun We Were Having: 4 Stories About Date Rape* (2011), Writer
- *Autoerotic* (2011), Writer
- *A Horrible Way to Die* (2010), as Olsen · Writer, Producer, First Assistant Director, Casting, Music Supervisor, Post Production Supervisor, Location Manager
- *Red Sands* (2009), as Matt Carson · Writer, Co-Producer
- *Dead Birds* (2005), Writer, Co-Producer
- *Frankenfish* (2004), Writer
- *The Nothing Deal* (2000), Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
- *Face/Off 2*, Screenplay
- *I Saw the Devil*, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Simon Barrett](https://film.one/media/person/11819/gallery-fe92c9a406c5.png) Simon Barrett — The MacGuffin, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Simonbarrettfilmmaker.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Simon Barrett](https://film.one/media/person/11819/gallery-a735c37f1373.jpg) Simon Barrett — Image via TMDB

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