[3] During 2004, he was pitching an idea for a movie called The Desperate to various American studios, who complained that the screenplay was too violent, and the plot was too close to Saw.
[5] During the production of Saw II, Bousman directed the music video for Mudvayne's single "Forget to Remember," which appeared as the lead song on the soundtrack album.
[16][17] Bousman directed the 2010 remake of Mother's Day[18] starring Shawn Ashmore, Deborah Ann Woll, and Briana Evigan.
[19] In 2012, Bousman directed and produced The Devil's Carnival,[20] a short film planned to be the first installment of a longer series.
[22] 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"[23] by Bloody Disgusting but otherwise was not well reviewed.
Bousman again collaborated with writer, Clint Sears, in 2018 on St. Agatha,[24] a religious horror film set in a convent in the 1950s in small-town Georgia.
The Tension Experience was set in a 45,000-square-foot warehouse and employed over 40 actors who followed different scripts depending on how participants reacted.
[35] The eagerly anticipated immersive experience had a thousand-page script and was inspired by the Paris Théâtre du Grand Guignol, which, in 1897, "specialized in grotesque shows that explored society's darkest taboos".
[32] Bousman told Daily Dead, "it is the most intricately designed and choreographed show that we've done, where there are endless possibilities when you walk through the door.
"[36] A socially distant immersive ARG, iConfidant ran for six weeks in 2020, culminating in a "multimedia, multi-platform experience centered around the theme of connection"[37] on June 6, 2020.
No Proscenium said, "the amount of work behind iConfidant is stunning" and noted that the show raised over $4,000 for Movement for Black Lives.
[40] Daily Dead said, "Darren Lynn Bousman is one of the most inventive creators in the immersive entertainment space today and the fact that many of his events run for a limited time, means you have to catch them before they're gone forever.