Jem Garrard is a British Canadian writer, director and producer. They are the creator and showrunner of the space opera series Vagrant Queen for SYFY. An Emmy nominated director, and five time Leo award winner, Jem's past projects include the comedy sci-fi series Android Employed, Disney's Mech-X4, SYFY's creature feature Killer High and Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem.
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Biography from TMDB.
- London, England, UK
- Director, writer and producer
- 17 on MovieCove · 25 credits in all
What are Jem Garrard's films like?
Across their 13 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 7
Light 4 · Serious 3 · Dark 1
Grounded 5 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 4 · Intense 2
Steady 2 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 5 · Funny 1
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 3 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 0
Resolved 6 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy5
- Bittersweet6
- Ambiguous2
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 Jem Garrard's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 15 of their 17 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (7).
- Invasive (2024) · director, writer · free
- R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (2025) · director, writer, producer · free
- Buzzkill (2026) · director, producer · free
- Takeout (2025) · director, writer, producer · free
- Secrets of My Stepdaughter (2017) · director · free
- Vagrant Queen (2020) · director, writer, producer · free
- Day of the Dead (2021) · director · free
Subscription and free streaming for Jem Garrard'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
25 credits, 17 with a MovieCove page.
Buzzkill(2026)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead(2025)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Takeout(2025)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Invasive 2: Getaway (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Orphan Black: Echoes(2023)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
Invasive(2024)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
Slay (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Sight Unseen(2024)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all shows
Day of the Dead(2021)
Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all shows
Vagrant Queen(2020)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all shows
Virgin River(2019)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
Nancy Drew(2019)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows
Cooking with Love(2018)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Killer High(2018)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Charmed(2018)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all shows
Christmas at Holly Lodge(2017)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Echo and Solomon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
Mech-X4(2016)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all shows
The Switch (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Wynonna Earp(2016)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
UNIT Bryan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
The Wolf Who Came to Dinner (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Game On (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 24 titles, 21 of them dated from 2015 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Jem Garrard's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 28th percentile, the median of all 8; across their 8 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 33rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th7
Shape of the crowd
12 of their 17 titles are Mixed.
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Mixed12
Reviewers score the atmosphere 62/100 and the pacing 52/100 in their films, across 8 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 Jem Garrard work with?
People who share at least 2 of Jem Garrard's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; David Trevail shares the most, 6.
Directors
- John FawcettShared titles: Sight Unseen (2024), Orphan Black: Echoes (2023)See all 2 shared titles with John Fawcett
Writers
- Suzanne KeillyShared titles: Buzzkill (2026), Killer High (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Suzanne Keilly
Actors
- Robyn ScottShared titles: Buzzkill (2026), Takeout (2025), Vagrant Queen (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Robyn Scott
- Alex McGregorShared titles: Takeout (2025), Invasive (2024), Vagrant Queen (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Alex McGregor
- Darron MeyerShared titles: Buzzkill (2026), Takeout (2025)See all 2 shared titles with Darron Meyer
- Nikita FaberShared titles: Takeout (2025), Invasive (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Nikita Faber
Cinematographers and editors
- David TrevailShared titles: Buzzkill (2026), R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (2025), Takeout (2025), Invasive (2024), Vagrant Queen (2020), Killer High (2018)See all 6 shared titles with David Trevail
- Simon DavidsonShared titles: Sight Unseen (2024), Day of the Dead (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Simon Davidson
- Trevor CalverleyShared titles: Invasive (2024), Killer High (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Trevor Calverley
- Christopher Charles KempinskiShared titles: Day of the Dead (2021), Cooking with Love (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Christopher Charles Kempinski
Producers
- Lance SamuelsShared titles: Buzzkill (2026), Takeout (2025), Invasive (2024), Vagrant Queen (2020), Killer High (2018)See all 5 shared titles with Lance Samuels
- Adam FriedlanderShared titles: Buzzkill (2026), Takeout (2025), Invasive (2024), Vagrant Queen (2020)See all 4 shared titles with Adam Friedlander
- Tebogo MailaShared titles: Buzzkill (2026), Takeout (2025), Invasive (2024), Vagrant Queen (2020)See all 4 shared titles with Tebogo Maila
- Daniel IronShared titles: Takeout (2025), Invasive (2024), Vagrant Queen (2020), Killer High (2018)See all 4 shared titles with Daniel Iron
