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David Bryant

David Bryant

Director, writer, producer, actor and editor

David has won awards and had numerous short film screened in film festivals including Heebie Jeebies, selected by director Oren Peli to feature on the Paranormal Activity DVD and BR. In 1997 David completed his first feature, the horror Dead Wood. The film was a successful low budget feature distributed to many territories and picked up by Lionsgate for a US release. David followed this up with drama feature Victims, screened at festivals including Fantasia and Raindance, winning awards for Best Screenplay and Best Feature. David's third feature was comedy Drunk on Love and has completed psychological chiller Splinter, winner Best Director at Unrestricted View Film Festival, and sci-fi drama short Between Worlds. As a screenwriter David has made the Quarter Finals of Screencraft Horror comp, The Semi Finals of KIller Shorts, was Top 6% in Academy Nicholl Fellowship and is a Finalist in Screencraft Action & Adventure 2020. David is developing more projects as we speak....

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Biography from TMDB.

Works as
Director, writer, producer, actor and editor
Titles
4 on MovieCove · 10 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Official site (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 38 days to Oct 27Down 5% in 30 days

What are David Bryant's films like?

Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.

Themes

share of theme weight
Morality
45%
Survival
33%
Society
12%
Power
10%
Justice2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 3 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Dark: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their dark movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 3

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0

Intense: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their intense movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

A split, not a type: Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 1

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 0 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1

Heavy: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their heavy movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2

Open-ended: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their open-ended movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

A split, not a type: Resolved 1 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 2

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
2
Dread
2
Contemplative
2
Hopeful
1
Melancholic
1

How their films linger

Thought-provoking2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch David Bryant's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 4 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Subscription and free streaming for David Bryant's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

10 credits, 4 with a MovieCove page.

  • Lilly(2024)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films

  • Splinter(2021)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films

  • Dead Silent(2016)

    Show 1 episode · Writer

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows

  • Drunk on Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Director · Writer

  • Victims(2011)

    Director · Editor · Producer · Writer · as Kidnapper

    Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Dead Wood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Director · Producer · Writer · as Rob

  • Between Worlds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

  • Blown Away (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

  • HEEBIE JEEBIES (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

  • Timeless (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

Career shape

A full career of 9 titles, 5 of them dated from 2007 to 2022.

Biggest box office

Lilly (2024)

$170K worldwide

Highest rated

Lilly (2024)

Midcredits 78th

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting2 of 9: 0 only acting, 2 with another roleDirecting8 of 9: 4 only directing, 4 with another roleWriting5 of 9: 1 only writing, 4 with another roleProducing3 of 9: 0 only producing, 3 with another roleEditing1 of 9: 0 only editing, 1 with another role

9 titles, 4 with more than one role — directing and writing overlap on 4 of them.

By decade

2000s1 · 1 acting · 1 crew2010s3 · 1 acting · 3 crew2020s1 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

How do David Bryant's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 39th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 44th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

44thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Approval · how many liked their films

35thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Reach · how many have seen their films

25thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Midcredits score across 4 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up1
  • 50th to 74th1
  • 25th to 49th1
  • Below 25th1

Shape of the crowd

2 of their 4 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Panned1
  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser2

Most divisive · actor, director, writer, producer, editor

Victims (2011)

85th percentile spread · 32% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · producer

Lilly (2024)

Midcredits 78th · 71% liked

Reviewers score the atmosphere 69/100 and the pacing 56/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does David Bryant work with?

People who share at least 2 of David Bryant's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Sharon Lawrence shares the most, 2.

Actors

Composers and cinematographers