Josh Malerman is an American novelist, short story writer, film producer, and one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. He is best known for writing horror and his post-apocalyptic novel Bird Box (2014), which inspired the Netflix film Bird Box. In 2020, he founded the production company Spin a Black Yarn with manager Ryan Lewis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josh Malerman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Writer and producer
- 7 on MovieCove · 13 credits in all
What are Josh Malerman's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 4
Light 0 · Serious 2 · Dark 3
Grounded 2 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 2 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 2
A split, not a type: Easy watch 2 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 3
A split, not a type: Resolved 0 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous3
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 Josh Malerman's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Josh Malerman'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
13 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page.
Other Mommy(2026)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
To All the Books (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
A Ben Evans Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Bird Box: Barcelona(2023)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
We Need to Do Something(2021)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films
Disco Graveyard (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Creepshow(2019)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
Bird Box(2018)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Dark, Deadly & Dreadful(2018)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
King Ripple (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
The Listing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Over Her Dead Body(2008)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all filmsDecorum at the Deathbed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 13 titles, 12 of them dated from 2008 to 2026.
Biggest box office
We Need to Do Something (2021)
Highest rated
Bird Box (2018)
Most popular right now
Other Mommy (2026)
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 Josh Malerman's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 16th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 22nd percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th2
- Below 25th5
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 7 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Panned1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the dialogue 36/100 and the plot and story 30/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
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.
Is Josh Malerman's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Josh Malerman work with?
People who share at least 2 of Josh Malerman's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ryan Lewis shares the most, 4.
Producers
- Ryan LewisShared titles: Other Mommy (2026), Bird Box: Barcelona (2023), We Need to Do Something (2021), Bird Box (2018)See all 4 shared titles with Ryan Lewis
- Ainsley DaviesShared titles: Bird Box: Barcelona (2023), Bird Box (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Ainsley Davies
- Chris MorganShared titles: Bird Box: Barcelona (2023), Bird Box (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Chris Morgan
- Dylan ClarkShared titles: Bird Box: Barcelona (2023), Bird Box (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Dylan Clark
