“I love the horror genre for how cinematic it is. I gravitated, I think, initially, toward the horror genre because, of all the genres, I think it is the genre that is most friendly to the subject matter of faith and belief in religion.”

American filmmaker

Scott Derrickson is an American filmmaker known for his work in horror and mainstream genre cinema. His films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, The Black Phone, Black Phone 2, and Doctor Strange. He has built a career around tense, atmospheric storytelling, especially in horror, while also working on a major superhero film. His credits range from legal supernatural terror to comic-book fantasy, showing a focus on suspense, fear, and the darker edges of popular genre filmmaking.