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Nicholas Santos

Nicholas Santos

Directing

Biography

Nicholas Payne Santos is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He was born and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and is bi-racial (Black/white). Santos received his Film MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2019. He attended Ithaca College, where he graduated in 2010 with a B.S. in Cinema & Photography. Nicholas' feature directorial debut IT CUTS DEEP was released by Dark Sky Films in limited theatrical and VOD on Friday the 13th, November 2020.

Known For

The Arborist
4.0

A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a haunting when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse.

The Arborist

2025
Uncle Peckerhead
5.9

When a punk band scores their first tour, life on the road proves tough when they are joined by a man-eating demon as a roadie.

Uncle Peckerhead

2020
Bury Me When I'm Dead
5.3

After failing to fulfill his wife's dying wish, a series of unexplainable, horrific events leads a man to believe she's returned to get revenge on him and his pregnant mistress.

Bury Me When I'm Dead

2025
Mother Fucker
6.0

Charles is deeply in debt and desperate to save his kidnapped dog. In a last-ditch effort to secure the ransom, Charles returns home to ask his wealthy, widowed mother for help. An unimaginable bargain is struck.

Mother Fucker

2018
Bleeding
5.0

In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.

Bleeding

2025
It Cuts Deep
4.8

While on Christmas vacation, a young couple contemplates their future together. Ashley is interested in getting married and having kids which terrifies Sam. When the more attractive and paternal Nolan enters the picture, Sam’s life spirals out of control as Ashley questions their relationship. Chaos reigns as Sam desperately clings to Ashley while fending off the threatening Nolan.

It Cuts Deep

2020
Strange Creatures
6.0

Desperate to see her brother again, a young woman visits the site of his death.

Strange Creatures

2024
A Good Fish
N/A

Left with nothing by their recently deceased father, two aimless brothers head home to face his funeral.

A Good Fish

2015
Holiday Fear
7.2

In the final act of a slasher film, Bruce attempts to reclaim his manliness and impress the final girl by finishing off the killer.

Holiday Fear

2017
PENITENCE
N/A

A man interrogates a sinister priest - a mysterious individual who committed a twisted murder.

PENITENCE

2023
Former Things
5.0

Alex, a travel-worn survivor in a desolate world, returns to his childhood home to find not only artifacts of his youth, but also the plague-ridden body of his recently deceased father.

Former Things

2014
Things I Don't Remember
6.0

Recollecting your childhood is like watching the VHS tape you found buried in the corner of your basement. You may have almost forgotten it, but the important thing is that you still have it.

Things I Don't Remember

2011
Kiddo
2.0

A twelve-year-old boy deals with the conflict between the innocence of childhood and the tribulations of growing up.

Kiddo

2010
The Ramens
N/A

A father and son discover Ramen while hunting in the woods.

The Ramens

2015
Worlds We Created
N/A

The story of a boy who walks the line between imagination and reality, and the day he realizes he may not be able to do so forever.

Worlds We Created

2013