--- name: "Tyler Gillett" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tyler-gillett" fi1m_id: "tyler-gillett" imdb_id: "nm2419470" tmdb_id: 1039527 wikidata_id: "Q16221753" roles: ["Director","Producer"] born: "6 March 1982" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 67 average_as: "director" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-27T09:04:37.650492+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." --- # Tyler Gillett ## Identity Tyler Gillett - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tyler-gillett - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** tyler-gillett - **IMDb ID:** nm2419470 - **TMDB ID:** 1039527 - **Wikidata ID:** Q16221753 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Gillett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16221753, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2419470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1039527 Director and producer. Born 6 March 1982 in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Producer - **Born:** 6 March 1982, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA - **Active:** 2019–present - **Also known as:** Radio Silence - **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 3 directing, 2 producing - **Frequently works with:** [Guy Busick](https://film.one/person/guy-busick.md), [James Vanderbilt](https://film.one/person/james-vanderbilt.md), [Matt Bettinelli-Olpin](https://film.one/person/matt-bettinelli-olpin.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 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/Tyler_Gillett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16221753, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2419470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1039527 ## 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 Tyler Gillett > Tyler Gillett, one half of Radio Silence, makes rowdy, bloody horror comedies in which a group of people are locked in a house with something that wants to kill them. The set pieces are good and getting better; the films around them talk too much. Somewhere in the second act of a Tyler Gillett film, someone explains the rules. In *Abigail* (2024) the kidnappers work out what will and will not kill a vampire and say it aloud, more than once. In *Scream* (2022) and *Scream VI* (2023) the characters stop to tell one another what kind of sequel they are in. Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, who direct together as Radio Silence, plainly enjoy this, and for a while so do we. Then it goes on. The pair came up through YouTube shorts, then a segment of *V/H/S* (2012), then *Devil's Due* (2014), a found-footage film that ran out of things to do with the format, and the anthology *Southbound* (2015). *Ready or Not* (2019), in which a bride spends her wedding night being hunted through her in-laws' house, gave them the shape they have used since: one building, locked doors, a group of people who deserve one another, and a great deal of blood. Paramount then handed them *Scream*; Universal handed them *Abigail*. They have not had to change the furniture much. What they do well is the set piece. The 2022 *Scream* has a first-rate opening. *Scream VI* takes Ghostface to New York, gives him a shotgun, and produces two sequences that are the best the series has managed in years. *Abigail* prefers practical effects, and its bodies burst rather than bleed, which is funnier and nastier than the alternative. We enjoyed *Abigail* more than we expected to, and the reason is Alisha Weir, a twelve-year-old ballerina and a superb small monster, who is more frightening than anyone twice her height in the house. What they do less well is everything between the set pieces. The two *Scream* films are written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, Busick now on his third film with them, and both scripts stop every ten minutes to tell us what kind of film we are watching. By the second hour of the 2022 film we had heard enough. *Scream VI* builds towards its weakest mystery. *Abigail*, which has no franchise to talk about, still cannot stop reciting its own rules, and is twenty minutes too long. Our scores sit between 65 and 70: decent, likeable, never quite the film we would send a stranger to see. Gillett has said the work has to do a little bit of genre dance, a tone dance, and he is right that the balance of scares and laughs is the hard part and that they usually keep it. A *Ready or Not* sequel is due in 2026, and a Mummy film after that. We will go. We would go more gladly if, just once, they locked the door and let the house do the talking. ## Biography Tyler Gillett is an American film director, cinematographer, writer and producer. Born on 6 March 1982 in Flagstaff, Arizona, he earned dual BFAs in film production and studio art/photography from the University of Arizona in 2004. Gillett began his career in the camera department and later directed shorts and series before co-founding the filmmaking collective Radio Silence with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Chad Villella. The group first gained attention with their segment in the 2012 anthology *V/H/S*. As part of Radio Silence, Gillett has co-directed the horror films *Devil's Due* (2014), *Southbound* (2015), *Ready or Not* (2019), *Scream* (2022), *Scream VI* (2023) and *Abigail* (2024). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (5) ### 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) ## Complete filmography (27) 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) - *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), Director, Editor, Director of Photography - *Devil's Due* (2014), Director - *V/H/S* (2012), as Tyler (segment "10/31/98") · Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor - *Jordan Rides the Bus* (2010), Camera Operator - *Breedlove*, Producer - *The Robots Go Crazy*, Director, Producer - *The Ice Beneath Her*, Director, Producer - *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 - *Thud*, Executive Producer ## Gallery - ![Tyler Gillett](https://film.one/media/person/11668/gallery-2d0df4e3402a.jpg) Tyler Gillett — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Tyler_Gillett_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Tyler_Gillett_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Tyler Gillett](https://film.one/media/person/11668/gallery-adc680a3789f.jpg) Tyler Gillett — Image via TMDB - ![Tyler Gillett](https://film.one/media/person/11668/gallery-6d3015930910.jpg) Tyler Gillett — Image via TMDB - ![Tyler Gillett](https://film.one/media/person/11668/gallery-43bde656965e.jpg) Tyler Gillett — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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