Home

József Gallai (b. 1988)

Birthplace:
Sopron, Hungary

Born:
January 22, 1988

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Film Performances

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Film Production

Casting:
2018  Echoes

Cinematography:
2018  Echoes
2019  The Whispering Man
2020  Spirits in the Dark
2022  Project Skyquake

Director:
2013  Interjú
2014  Bodom
2016  A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex
2016  Moth
2018  Echoes
2019  The Whispering Man
2020  Spirits in the Dark
2021  The Poltergeist Diaries
2022  I Hear the Trees Whispering
2022  Project Skyquake
2024  A Stranger in the Woods
2024  Aftermath

Producer:
2013  Interjú
2014  Bodom
2016  A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex
2016  Moth
2018  Echoes
2019  The Whispering Man
2020  Spirits in the Dark
2021  The Poltergeist Diaries
2022  I Hear the Trees Whispering
2022  Project Skyquake
2024  A Stranger in the Woods
2024  Aftermath

Story:
2013  Interjú
2014  Bodom
2016  A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex
2016  Moth
2018  Echoes
2018  Párhuzam
2019  The Whispering Man
2020  Spirits in the Dark
2021  The Poltergeist Diaries
2022  I Hear the Trees Whispering
2022  Project Skyquake
2024  A Stranger in the Woods
2024  Aftermath

Writer:
2013  Interjú
2014  Bodom
2016  A Guidebook to Killing Your Ex
2016  Moth
2018  Echoes
2018  Párhuzam
2019  The Whispering Man
2020  Spirits in the Dark
2021  The Poltergeist Diaries
2022  I Hear the Trees Whispering
2022  Project Skyquake
2024  A Stranger in the Woods
2024  Aftermath

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.