The Spierig Brothers

stylish sci-fi craftsmen

THE Spierig Brothers

blood runs dry

futuristic vampire apocalypse

Twin Filmmakers Break Out with Cult Horror Hit

Biography

Identical twin brothers Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig, known together professionally as The Spierig Brothers, are German-born Australian film directors, producers, and writers.   

Peter and Michael created their first film, Undead, a low-budget zombie horror-comedy, after pooling together their life savings. Undead screened at 17 film festivals, including Edinburgh, Toronto, Sitges, and Berlin. At the Melbourne International Film Festival, the International Federation of Film Critics awarded Undead the prestigious Fipresci Award. The film was sold to 41 countries, and was released theatrically in the US and Canada by Lionsgate, who developed a close relationship with Peter and Michael, and backed their second production, Daybreakers.  

Blood and Blockbusters

Daybreakers and the Rise of a Global Genre Duo

Daybreakers, a vampire-thriller, starred Academy Award® nominees Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe, Primetime Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Vince Colosimo, Michael Dorman, and Isabel Lucas. The film was released in the US on 2,500 screens, and has gone on to gross more than $100 million worldwide.

The third film from The Spierig Brothers was the sci-fi love story Predestination, based on the classic sci-fi short story All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein, and starred Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, and Noah Taylor. Predestination was nominated for nine AACTA awards (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards) and won four, including Best Actress for Sarah Snook. The brothers also won the prestigious John Hinde Award for Best Science Fiction Screenwriting. To this day, Predestination continually ranks on many lists as one of the greatest science fiction films ever made.

Return to Horror

box office thrills from jigsaw and beyond

The Spierig Brothers were excited to take on the eighth installment of the SAW franchise with Lionsgate's Jigsaw, relishing the opportunity to return to their horror origins and building upon the franchise originally conceptualized by friends James Wan and Leigh Whannell. Jigsaw grossed over $150 million worldwide, proving to be as successful as the original installment.
 
The next project for The Spierig Brothers was the supernatural thriller, Winchester, which tells the true story of Sarah Winchester, the millionaire heiress to the Winchester Arms fortune. The film starred Dame Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, and re-teamed the brothers with friend Sarah Snook. Winchester grossed over $70 million worldwide and continued The Spierig Brothers’ consistent streak of creating popular, successful films.

Currently, the brothers are in post-production on their new feature Fall 2, a follow-up to the 2022 hit Fall.