He has been unofficially dubbed a member of the "Splat Pack", a movement in modern horror towards Gorn-y realistic depictions of hyper-violence, which includes Darren Lynn Bousman, Neil Marshall, Greg McLean, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, and Rob Zombie.
Aja rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film High Tension, and has since been carving quite a genre career for himself in America with high-profile and high-budget horror remakes.
He Has Written and/or directed:
- High Tension (2003)
- The Hill Have Eyes (2006, remake of the Wes Craven film)
- P2 (2007, writer only)
- Mirrors (2008)
- Piranha 3D (2010)
- Maniac (2012 remake, writer only)
- Horns (2014)
- The 9th Life Of Louis Drax (2016)
- Crawl (2019)
- Oxygen (2021)
Tropes That Apply to His Works
- Body Horror
- Creator's Oddball: Two of them, although both fall into the thriller genre.
- The 9th Life Of Louis Drax, based on the best-selling 2004 novel of the same name by Liz Jensen, is more fantasy-influenced.
- Oxygen serves as his first foray into the Science Fiction genre.
- Gorn
- Slasher Movie
- Spiritual Antithesis: Crawl serves as this to Piranha 3D, another horror film about killer aquatic animals. Whereas Piranha 3D was Played for Laughs with tons of Black Comedy and Bloody Hilarious gore, Crawl is a straightforward horror movie that treats its predators as a serious threat.
