Darren Lynn Bousman is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work directing four of the Saw films: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, and Spiral (2021). In 2016, he directed Abattoir, which was described as "the best 2016 horror movie you didn`t see" and Bousman as "an underrated force of bold originality" by Bloody Disgusting but otherwise was not well reviewed. Abattoir premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 7, 2016. Bousman again collaborated with writer, Clint Sears, in 2018 on St. Agatha,[25] a religious horror film set in a convent in the 1950s in small-town Georgia. He next directed Death of Me (2020), another horror film, starring Maggie Q and Luke Hemsworth.