“I spent a lot of my adult life overcoming fear. It was a subject I knew a lot about, and it's one of the most important and most powerful human emotions. Fear is one of the greatest driving forces in the world. So I thought I could go into the horror genre and do things differently and contribute a different point of view.”

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.