József Gallai

József Gallai

Born: January 22, 1988
in Sopron, Hungary
After watching Lady in the Water (2006), József Gallai decided to deal with filmmaking and started writing screenplays and short stories. Between 2009 and 2012 he was mainly involved in amateur films in various genres.

In 2014, he wrote and co-directed Hungary's first feature length found footage horror Bodom (2014). In this year the movie opened the Bram Stoker International Film Festival in Whitby, UK as well as collected numerous nominations on film festivals including 30 Dies Festival in Andorra, Golden Rake Award for Indie Horror and New York Scary Film Awards in the US and Amazon Horror Awards in Brazil.

In 2015 Bodom was in the final competition at the Full Moon Horror & Fantasy Film Festival in Romania, competing with award winning films such as Welp (2014), Horsehead (2014) and Réalité (2014).

In the beginning of 2016 his next horror movie Moth (2016) was completed and finished 4th Best Feature Film at the International Horror Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. The movie has been called a "thought-provoking and chilling film" by Found Footage Fiction and a "front running for a new horror niche" by Horror Habit. According to Horror Asylum, Moth is "an unusual experience with some moment reminding the author of David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006)".

In the end of 2016 Gallai finished his fourth found footage feature A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex (2016), being described as an "enjoyably sinister movie with a delightfully unhinged central performance" by UK Film Review and collecting further positive reviews from Found Footage Critic, Top Found Footage Films and Warped Perspective as well as three nominations (including Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Film) on the International Filmmaker Festival World Cinema in Nice in 2017.

In 2018 he completed his next short film Echoes (2018), which will be part of a horror anthology titled Blood Tales. He also directed two internationally acknowledged films in 2019 (Spirits in the Dark, The Whispering Man) that are set to be released worldwide in 2020 by Wild Eye Releasing.

Presently, Gallai is working on his next paranormal thriller The Poltergeist Diaries featuring Oscar nominated Eric Roberts.

Movies for József Gallai...

A Stranger in the Woods
Title: A Stranger in the Woods
Character: Peter
Released: April 30, 2024
Type: Movie
A young film student is about to make a documentary about an elderly man who has been hiding from the world for many years. But as secrets from his past come to light, their strange relationship takes a fateful turn.
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The Poltergeist Diaries
Title: The Poltergeist Diaries
Character: Documentary Filmmaker
Released: June 28, 2021
Type: Movie
After moving to an isolated cabin, Jacob Taylor vanishes without a trace. With the help of footage he leaves behind, his family members, friends, and a detective try to find answers to the strange events that are centered around him.
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Spirits in the Dark
Title: Spirits in the Dark
Character: Gil
Released: February 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A lonely widower finds a mysterious video on his computer that leads him to an abandoned town occupied by an ominous entity.
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Párhuzam
Title: Párhuzam
Character: The Tall Man
Released: July 6, 2018
Type: Movie
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Echoes
Title: Echoes
Character: Skull Face
Released: January 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Strange entities begin to haunt a middle-aged man and his infant son in a remote cabin in the woods.
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Moth
Title: Moth
Character: Adam
Released: January 14, 2016
Type: Movie
An enthusiastic lecturer and her student travel to Europe to go after the mythology of the Mothman, but they soon have to fight for survival.