Pascal Laugier

[3] Following the film's release, the American production company Miramax asked Laugier to create a remake of Hellraiser (1987).

[5] Following the release of The Tall Man in France, Jason Blum approached Laugier to direct a sequel to the film Sinister (2012).

[6] In that time, he directed Mylène Farmer's music video "City of Love", the teaser of which was released online in December 2015.

[8] Inspired by three films: Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem (2012), David Robert Mitchell's It Follows (2014) and S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk (2015) he wrote Ghostland (2018).

[6] In December 2016, while filming Ghostland, Taylor Hickson was told by director Laugier to bang her fists against a glass window and that it was safe to do so.