
Jeff Howard
Writing
Biography
Jeff Howard is an American writer and producer who has worked extensively in the genre space. On the television front, Jeff was a writer on the first season of Netflix's horror series The Haunting of Hill House (2018), as well as Resident Evil (2022). His most recent television work was as an executive producer of Midnight Mass (2021). Jeff got his start in the feature space co-writing the Blumhouse hit Oculus (2013) with Mike Flanagan. He also has shared writing credits on Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) for Universal Studios and Gerald's Game (2017) for Netflix.
Known For

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
The Haunting of Hill House

The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
Midnight Mass

Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation's dark secrets. Based on the horror franchise.
Resident Evil

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Oculus

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
Ouija: Origin of Evil

When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
Gerald's Game

The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.
The World Wars

An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
Before I Wake

An official adaptation of the cult horror film Oculus. The film revolves around a haunted mirror. It shows the emotional journey of siblings Natasha Merchant played by Huma Qureshi and Kabeer Merchant played by Saqib Saleem dealing with the death of their parents.
Dobaara: See Your Evil

Four young suburban men try to establish themselves as organized criminals in their hum-drum local community.
Permanent Damage
A teenager looks after an elderly lady who is losing her memories not to dementia, but to a memory thief called The Phoenician.
Snapshot 1988

Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s latest time‑travel experiment backfires, erasing the moment Phineas’ mom meets Ferb’s dad — meaning the boys never become brothers and every day is merely adequate. As reality unravels and the future hangs in the balance, Phineas and Ferb must restore the timeline before it’s too late.
Untitled Phineas and Ferb Movie
When citizens in a small town start to go missing, a police officer faces off against a mysterious gang of grinning weirdos to find her son and keep him safe.
Peekers
A frustrated writer named Drew Larson. With an acclaimed short story to his credit who turns to academia because each time he’s got a good book idea, something terrible happens. He is determined to write an idea for a Western, and heads out to an old family cabin in the woods determined to get it done. Severe storms occur and he makes a Faustian bargain with a rat to alleviate his writer’s block. Larson believes it was done in a dream state of delirium, but finds when he returns home that he made a rat pact to trade success for the life of a loved one…
Rat
Following a break up, a young woman finds herself under attack by blood-sucking bats.