Roxanne Benjamin was born and raised in
Bradford, Pennsylvania. Benjamin began their filmmaking career as a producer, developing and producing genre films and anthologies, most notably V/H/S, XX, and Southbound. Benjamin is a credited producer on
V/H/S and its sequel
V/H/S/2 and worked on development of the third entry in the franchise before parting ways with the series to move on to directing. Benjamin then wrote and directed segments for
Southbound, a film which she also developed and produced with a number of the original V/H/S creative team. The film premiered at
TIFF in the Midnight section in 2015, along with another film that Benjamin is a credited Co-producer on,
The Devil's Candy. Benjamin was then brought on to the anthology feature
XX, directing and writing their own segment and co-writing and producing another with artist and musician
St. Vincent. In 2016, Benjamin directed a gore-heavy horror-themed music video for indie band
Cherry Glazerr's song "Nurse Ratched", featuring lead singer
Clementine Creevy stalking former band member
Sasami Ashworth through the woods In 2019, Benjamin's survival thriller
Body at Brighton Rock, their first solo feature film, premiered at
SXSW. Their second feature film,
There's Something Wrong with the Children was released in 2023 with Amazon and MGM+, with
Blumhouse Productions producing. in between the two films, Benjamin directed multiple television series focused in the genre space, including horror anthology
Creepshow for Shudder, the CW's
Riverdale,
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for Netflix,
Nancy Drew,
One of Us Is Lying, and HBO Max's
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and
Pretty Little Liars: Summer School. In March 2019, Benjamin was hired to write the screenplay for the remake of
Night of the Comet for
Orion Pictures. In July 2021, Benjamin signed on to direct an American remake of the Spanish horror film
La cueva titled
Fall Into Darkness. ==Filmography==