Jed Shepherd

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Jed Shepherd

10 films

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.

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Host posterFirst watchHost20206.6Their style at its most typical, and among their best-rated work.Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.View film

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Filmography

10 films
  1. 2026Bite Size TerrorWriter
  2. 2024The Blair Witch DocumentaryWriter
  3. 2023FlashbackWriter
  4. 2022Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s RevengeWriter
  5. 2022DashcamWriter
  6. 2020HostWriter
  7. 2020MultiplexWriter
  8. 2018SaltWriter
  9. 2016Dawn of the DeafStory
  10. 2015AbsenceWriter