How do Leigh Whannell's movies as a director rank from worst to best? Leigh Whannell achieved a very memorable breakout in 2004 with the low-budget trap-filled horror movie Saw, which Whannell co-wrote and appeared in as Adam alongside Cary Elwes. Both Whannell and director James Wan subsequently shot to the big time overnight, with the film's success spawning the long-running and still occasionally revived Saw franchise.
Whannell and Wan subsequently collaborated on movies such as Death Sentence, Insidious, and The Conjuring, with ongoing horror franchises being born from the latter two. Whannell would also make his own directorial debut in the Insidious series with 2015's Insidious: Chapter 3 before going on to continue his career as a director with 2018's Upgrade and 2020's The Invisible Man.
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Across his relatively fledgling career as a director, Leigh Whannell has continued to scare audiences while venturing outside of the viscera of the Saw franchise into new genres like action and sci-fi. As a director, Whannell has also interlocked his horror stories with new elements and themes that have made his directorial work doubly impactful. Here are Leigh Whannell's films as a director ranked from worst to best.
A prequel to the first two Insidious movies, Insidious Chapter 3 focuses on the series' mainstay demon expert Elise Rainer (Lin Shaye) as she helps in the case of a young woman named Quinn (Stefanie Scott). With Quinn finding herself haunted by an ethereal presence known as "The Man Who Can't Breathe" (Michael Reid MacKay), Elise wrestles with her own confidence in her ability to exorcise the malevolent entity, a major shift from her expertise in the
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