Anthony Cousins
Directing
Biography
Anthony Cousins is an American horror filmmaker and cinematographer best known for creating the cult cryptid feature Frogman and its sequel Frogman Returns. With a background spanning grip, gaffer, camera operator, and director of photography roles, Cousins brings a hands-on, practical-effects-driven sensibility to his work — blending scrappy indie energy with meticulous technical craft. Before stepping fully into the director’s chair, Cousins built a reputation behind the camera on genre projects including Scare Package, Revealer, and numerous independent shorts and features. A lifelong horror fan influenced by practical-effects classics, Cousins champions handmade monster suits, in-camera effects, and the immersive realism of found footage storytelling. His work reflects a filmmaker who understands genre from the ground up — technically, creatively, and communally.
Known For
An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious sighting of the Frogman, determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the cryptid legend exists.
Frogman
In the summer of 2006, five teenagers break into an abandoned prison that is supposedly haunted, only to discover that what inhabits the place is much more dangerous than the paranormal.
The Killing Cell
Following the events of the original with the survivors attending the funeral of “Rad Chad” Buckley, which quickly devolves into an elaborate series of death traps centered around Chad’s favorite films, forcing the guests to band together and use the rules of horror to survive the bloody game.
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge
Chad Buckley is super crazy about horror movies, but also very lonely. He mostly spends his days in his small movie shop having wild discussions with his only returning customer, Sam.
Scare Package
A night of babysitting takes a dark turn when Annie discovers the little girl she's watching has an imaginary friend you can only see if you play a game.
Peek a Boo
There’s unfinished business in Loveland. Dallas, Amy, and Frogman are back to settle the score in FROGMAN RETURNS.
Frogman Returns
Daisy (Chelsey Grant)and Greg are in bed kissing. Someone watches them from the ajar closet. Suddenly the window is smashed and a Masked Killer climbs through the window. Before the killer can stab Daisy, a group of her friends spring from the closet and subdue the killer with stun batons. We dissolve to the garage, where the killer wakes up, tied to a table, surrounded by Daisy and her friends.
The Night He Came Back Again! Part IV: The Final Kill
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Frogman 2
During a botched home invasion, a woman has a real eye for survival.
The Last Thing She Saw
When a wedding planner falls in love with the soon-to-be groom, she decides the bride has to disappear.
Happily Never After
An anthology film that tells the tales of eight hapless souls infected with a monstrous sexually transmitted parasite that holds eldritch powers over its host’s mind.
Fat Fleshy Fingers
A young expecting couple down on their luck find a fresh start when Scamp arrives to make a meal of their problems.
Scamp
Ethan is in love with the weird girl in school. The one with the twitchy eyes and spiders in her hair. The one who can't sit still for even a minute and speaks in an odd squeaky voice. The one they call Spiderweb.
Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole F*cking Face Explodes
The kids at Camp Nawgonamakit are about to find out the tragic tale of Squirt Reynolds is more than just a legend.
The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds
Some Easter eggs should be left in the grass.
Bad Egg
a found footage homage to The Blair Witch Project.
The Blair Grim Project
A body horror tale like no other. The story of one man's bond with a parasitic creature that could result in the end of us all.