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Jed Shepherd

Writing

Biography

Jed’s film work includes the multi-award winning Sundance Favourite ‘Dawn of the Deaf’ and ‘Host’ which Dreadcentral calls 'The scariest movie of the past decade' and Forbes Magazine calls 'The genre phenomenon of 2020'. The movie currently holds 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is the highest-rated horror film of the year. He is currently writing 3 upcoming movies for Blumhouse, and has a film with Sam Raimi, plus a prison film with StudioCanal. ‘Absence’ starring Paul McGann was the first short Jed wrote which was selected for several film festivals such as London Film Festival, Fantasia and Fright Fest. His upcoming short ‘Salt’, originally commissioned for FOX, is preparing for its festival circuit.

As actor 7

Deadstream poster
Deadstream
2022
TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming poster
TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming
2025
In Search of Darkness: Part III poster
In Search of Darkness: Part III
2022
The Legacy of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre poster
The Legacy of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2022
Multiplex poster
Multiplex
2020
Do You Believe In Ghosts?: 30 Years of Ghostwatch poster
Do You Believe In Ghosts?: 30 Years of Ghostwatch
2022
Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary poster
Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary

On the crew 16

Host poster
Host
2020
Breeder poster
Breeder
2026
I Spy poster
I Spy
Double Tap poster
Double Tap
2020
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge poster
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge
2022
Dashcam poster
Dashcam
2022
The Blair Witch Documentary poster
The Blair Witch Documentary
2024
Grandma Is Thirsty poster
Grandma Is Thirsty
2025
Salt poster
Salt
2018
Flashback poster
Flashback
2023
Multiplex poster
Multiplex
2020
Birdemic 2: The Resurrection poster
Birdemic 2: The Resurrection
2013
Outside Noise poster
Outside Noise
2024
Dawn of the Deaf poster
Dawn of the Deaf
2016
Untitled Prison-Break Horror Project
Absence poster
Absence
2015