Thunder Levin is an American screenwriter and director, known for writing the first four Sharknado television films.

He graduated from Hunter College High School, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film from New York University.

[1] His feature-film directorial debut was the 2008 horror comedy Mutant Vampire Zombies from the 'Hood!,[5][6] starring C. Thomas Howell.

In 2013, Levin wrote the made-for-television disaster film Sharknado, about a tornado of shark-infested seawater.

The film's debut on the Syfy cable channel attracted nearly 1.37 million viewers and generated nearly 5,000 tweets a minute at its peak.