David Slade

David Slade (birthname: David Aldrin Slade) is an in-demand director for features and in American and British television. After an extremely active run making music videos with Tori Amos, Muse, Stereophonics, Aphex Twin, and DJ Hooligan, Slade expanded into feature films with Hard Candy (2005), with Elliot Page and Patrick Wilson. The horror movie, 30 Days of Night (2007), with Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, was Slade’s next feature, adapting the comic book series of the same title.

David Slade’s major break as a filmmaker was a high-profile assignment as director of the third entry in the Twilight franchise, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, ultimately grossing over $693 million worldwide. Slade contributed the segment, “This Way to Egress,” with Elizabeth Reaser and Patrick Wilson (alongside other segments directed by Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Ryuhei Kitamura, and Alejandro Brugués) for the horror anthology movie, Nightmare Cinema (2018).

David Slade directed a noteworthy entry in the cross-media project known as Black Mirror: In 2018, he helmed Bandersnatch (billed as “A Black Mirror Event”), co-starring Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe, Asim Chaudhry, and written by Charlie Brooker as an interactive feature (deploying a plot based on a “choose-your-own-adventure” concept and using a writing software tool called Twine for interactive scripts).

The film had been originally intended as an episode in the Black Mirror series, but due to the extraordinarily lengthy eight-month production schedule, the project was spun off from the series as a standalone feature. Slade’s next feature was the horror film, Dark Harvest (2022), with Casey Likes, E’myri Crutchfield, Jeremy Davies, Elizabeth Reaser, and Luke Kirby. The MGM production was originally slated for release by United Artists Releasing in September 2021 but was delayed a year until September 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.