Tyler Gillett

Tyler Gillett has gained a reputation as the co-director (with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin) of very profitable horror and genre movies, including the 2022 reboot, Scream. After graduating from the University of Arizona in 2004, Gillett worked in the camera unit of New Line Cinema’s sports comedy, Semi-Pro (2008), starring Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, and André Benjamin. After working on camera units in various features and directing short comedy films and series episodes for Fremantle Media.

Gillett worked with the film collective, “Chad, Matt & Rob,” making several interactive online short films in the sci-fi/horror/comedy style. When that group dissolved, Gillett formed a new collective, “Radio Silence,” with future co-directing partner Bettinelli-Olpin (as well as Chad Villella and Justin Martinez) and made more shorts, as well as the segment titled “10/31/98” for the feature, V/H/S (2012), with fellow directors Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, and Joe Swanberg, grossing nearly $2 million or over eight times its original cost of $242,000.

With co-director Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett made his feature directorial debut on Devil’s Due (2014), with Allison Miller, Zach Gilford, and Sam Anderson, earning ($37 million) over five times the budget ($7 million). The “Radio Silence” collective made the segment, “The Way Out,” for the anthology horror feature, Southbound (2015), (on which Gillett served as cinematographer and editor) with fellow directors Roxanne Benjamin, Bruckner, and Patrick Horvath; the film grossed only $23,665 at the box office.

Co-directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett led the hit black comedy-horror movie, Ready or Not (2019), with Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, and Andie MacDowell, grossing ($57.6 million worldwide) nearly ten times costs ($6 million) for distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures. Tyler Gillett’s feature film director career leaped forward as co-director (again with Bettinelli-Olpin) of his first major studio production, Paramount’s highly anticipated relaunch of the Scream series, with Scream (2022), co-starring Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell, and earning a robust $140 million worldwide gross on a $24 million budget.

Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett reunited as co-directors for the sequel, Scream VI (2023), with Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown. Gillett continued his work with the “Radio Silence” trio (including co-director Bettinelli-Olpin and producer Villella) as co-director of the horror movie, Abigail (2024), co-starring Alisha Weir in the title role, Dan Stevens, Melissa Barrera, Kathryn Newton, Giancarlo Esposito, and Matthew Goode, and released by Universal Pictures.