Alexandre Aja Archives

High Tension (2003)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 5, 2005French Backwoods Brutality

The film that made the world take notice of Alexandre Aja. Aja serves up a brutal and gore-drenched variant on the Backwoods Brutality film, although things fall apart in an absurd twist ending

Director: Alexandre Aja

Actors: Cecile De France, Maiwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Oana Pellea

Category: Horror

5 August 200516 March 2026 by Roog

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 21, 2006Backroads Brutality

Wes Craven's Backwoods Brutality classic gets a gore-drenched makeover from Alexandre Aja. One of the better amid the 2000s fad for horror remakes where the original is dragged into the modern day in some interesting ways

Director: Alexandre Aja

Actors: Aaron Stanford, Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Emilie de Ravin, …

Category: Horror

21 June 20062 April 2026 by Roog

Mirrors (2008)

Rating: ★★

Nov 22, 2008Haunted Mirrors

Alexandre Aja film about haunted mirrors. Aja is more a director of physical horror and seems less attuned to the supernatural mood

Director: Alexandre Aja

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce, …

Category: Horror

22 November 200812 September 2024 by Roog

Piranha (2010)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 28, 2010Killer Fish

Another in the fad for 70s/80s remakes where Alexandre Aja for once captures the spirit of Joe Dante's 1978 original by planting tongue in cheek and wading in with mind-bogglingly gory enthusiasm

Director: Alexandre Aja

Actors: Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O'Connell, Steve R. McQueen, Jessica Szohr, …

Category: Horror

28 August 201017 January 2026 by Roog

Horns (2013)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2014Man Grows a Set of Devil Horns

An Alexandra Aja adaptation of a Joe Hill novel that comes with a diabolical glee as Daniel Radcliffe develops a set of devil horns and finds everyone confessing their deepest secrets to him

Director: Alexandre Aja

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson, Juno Temple, …

Category: Fantasy

6 December 201426 December 2025 by Roog

Crawl (2019)

Rating: ★★

Oct 4, 2019Killer Alligators in the Crawlspace

Alexandre Aja makes a based on true life film where Kaya Scodeario becomes trapped in the crawlspace under a house with alligators as floodwaters rise all around

Director: Alexandre Aja

Actors: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark, Ross Anderson, …

Category: Horror

4 October 20192 April 2026 by Roog