Leigh Whannell

Leigh Whannell

Actor & Director (b. 1977)
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The ThumbScore for Leigh Whannell (75.4%) is the average audience approval rating across 10 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Leigh's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

10
Movies
75.4%
Avg ThumbScore
Horror
Top Genre

Audiences rate Leigh Whannell’s films higher than 78% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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Leigh Whannell (/ˈli ˈwɑːnɛl/; born 17 January 1977) is an Australian filmmaker and actor. He has written multiple films that were directed by his friend James Wan, including Saw (2004), Dead Silence (2007), Insidious (2010), and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013). Whannell made his directorial debut with Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) and has since directed three more films, Upgrade (2018), The Invisible Man (2020) and Wolf Man (2025). Whannell and Wan are the creators of the Saw franchise. Whannell wrote the first installment, co-wrote the second and third installments, was the producer or executive producer for all the films, and appeared as the Adam Stanheight character in three of the installments. He was also the writer of the Saw video game (2009) and co-writer of the film Cooties (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article Leigh Whannell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1977-01-17 in Melbourne, Australia.

On ThumbScore, Leigh Whannell appears in 10 films with an average audience score of 75.4%, most frequently in the Horror genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Leigh Whannell movie, ranked by audience score

Saw III
Saw III
2006
👍 86%
Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
👍 84%
Saw
Saw
2004
👍 82%
Insidious
Insidious
2011
👍 78%
Insidious: Chapter 3
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015
👍 77%
Insidious: The Last Key
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
👍 75%
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
2020
👍 74%
Cooties
Cooties
2014
👍 69%
Upgrade
Upgrade
2018
👍 68%
Wolf Man
Wolf Man
2025
👍 61%