Christopher Smith

Director

“Film is bigger than everyone and I think that every single experience you have in one film prepares you in some way for the next. But cinema is always growing and changing shape.”

Biography

Christopher Smith, (born 16 August 1970 in Bristol, England, UK) is a British film director and screenwriter.

His four most prominent pieces of work are Creep, Severance, Triangle and Black Death. Smith was last working on a movie based on the UK children’s book series CHERUB. —Wikipedia

Films on MUBI

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

I'm probably alone on this, but I think he's steadily improving with each film, very slowly becoming one of the more interesting genre directors currently working. From the retrograde Death Line knock-off of Creep, to the playful satire of Severance, the Shyamalan/Nolan-lite twists of Triangle, right-up to the "Grindhouse Bergman" of Black Death [possibly his first truly 'great' film], he's overcome the more irritating shortcomings of other contemporary horror filmmakers, such as Roth, West, Marshall, Mclean, etc, and produced that rare thing: contemporary horror movies that are about more than just homage and appropriation, but actually approach serious ideas from a semi-serious perspective.

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