Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (born February 19, 1978) is an American director, writer, actor, and musician. He is a founding member of the East Bay punk band Link 80 and co-creator of the filmmaking collectives Chad, Matt & Rob and Radio Silence. He is best known for his work in horror films, including V/H/S, Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI, Abigail and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.
Also recorded as Matthew Douglas Bettinelli-Olpin
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
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- Birthplace
- Oakland, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Film director
- Born
- 1978 · California.
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- film production · film direction · film screenwriting · punk music
- Education
- University of California and Santa Cruz · Bishop O'Dowd High School
- Languages
- English
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Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (born February 19, 1978) is an American director, writer, actor, and musician. He is a founding member of the East Bay punk band Link 80 and co-creator of the filmmaking collectives Chad, Matt & Rob and Radio Silence. He is best known for his work in horror films, including V/H/S, Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI, Abigail and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.
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Biography
Biography
In 2026, Bettinelli-Olpin was included on New York Magazine's list of The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood and The Hollywood Reporter's list Top Genre Filmmakers of 2026: From Curry Barker to Guillermo del Toro.
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Link 80 at the train tracks and Gilman Street. 1996. Adam Pereria, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Aaron Nagel, Joey Bustos, Nick Traina. Berkeley, California.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Birthplace — Oakland, California, U.S. • Occupation — * Film director • screenwriter • actor • musician • Years Active — 1993–present • Website — Radio Silence
Early life
Early life
Raised in Oakland, California, Bettinelli-Olpin attended Chabot Elementary, Claremont Middle School and Bishop O'Dowd High School. He attended college at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Music
Music
Bettinelli-Olpin formed the Bay Area punk band Link 80 in 1993. On the band's first two albums, 17 Reasons and Killing Katie, Bettinelli-Olpin played guitar, sang backing vocals and co-wrote the lyrics with singer Nick Traina. After leaving Link 80, Bettinelli-Olpin worked as a music journalist and interviewed bands including Alkaline Trio, Dropkick Murphy's, Lawrence Arms, Avail, Blur, Violent Femmes, the Breeders, the Mars Volta and the Psychedelic Furs. In 2016, Bettinelli-Olpin played guitar in a Link 80 reunion for the Asian Man Records 20th Anniversary. On June 17 and 18, the band played two sold-out shows at the San Francisco's Bottom of the Hill. Before the shows, a video tribute to singer Nick Traina was shown. In 2021, a Link 80 cover of Rancid's "Junkie Man" was released on Lavasock Records' 25th anniversary tribute to Rancid's punk rock classic...And Out Come the Wolves featuring Bettinelli-Olpin on vocals. • Illustration — Matt Bettinelli-Olpin at 924 Gilman Street, 1997
Chad, Matt & Rob
Chad, Matt & Rob
Bettinelli-Olpin co-founded Chad, Matt & Rob with Chad Villella and Rob Polonsky in 2007. The group is known for their unique blend of comedy, adventure, sci-fi and horror. According to an interview in IndieWire, Bettinelli-Olpin worked in the mailroom and later as the office manager at New Line Cinema, where the group would sneak in after hours to use the offices as their sets. Among their numerous short films is the viral found footage style video Roommate Alien Prank Gone Bad and five installments of their first-of-its-kind series of Interactive Adventures. Their work online has over 100,000,000 views.
Filmography
Filmography
• Film — Year — Director — Writer — Actor — Editor — Producer — Notes • V/H/S — 2012 — Segment "10/31/98", Role: Matt • Devil's Due — 2014 • Southbound — 2015 — Role: Jack • Ready or Not — 2019 • Phobias — 2021 — Executive • V/H/S/94 — 2021 • Scream — 2022 • V/H/S/99 — 2022 • Scream VI — 2023 • V/H/S/85 — 2023 • Abigail — 2024 • Fountain of Youth — 2025 — Executive • Scream 7 — 2026 — Executive • Ready or Not 2: Here I Come — 2026 — Executive • Untitled The Mummy Returns sequel — 2027 — Filming • White Elephant — TBA
Life and work
Life and work
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin was born on 19 February 1978 in California. Bettinelli-Olpin held the nationality of United States. Bettinelli-Olpin was educated at University of California, Santa Cruz and Bishop O'Dowd High School. Bettinelli-Olpin worked as film director, actor, film screenwriter and musician, and the authority record catalogues a further 2 occupations under the same name, among them screenwriter and director. Bettinelli-Olpin was active from 1993. Bettinelli-Olpin played the guitar. Bettinelli-Olpin worked in English.
Work for the screen
Work for the screen
Bettinelli-Olpin worked for the screen, as film director, film screenwriter and screenwriter. 9 films survive in the institutional catalogues, spanning 2012 to 2027. Among them are V/H/S (2012), Devil's Due (2014), Southbound (2015), Ready or Not (2019), Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023). The whole run is set out in the catalogue below.
Radio Silence
• Illustration — Bettinelli-Olpin in 2013 After the dissolution of Chad, Matt & Rob, Bettinelli-Olpin formed Radio Silence with Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez and Chad Villella. The group co-directed the 10/31/98 segment of the feature film V/H/S. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures in October 2012. The following year, they made Devil's Due for 20th Century Fox and in 2015, their film Southbound premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was released theatrically by the Orchard on February 5, 2016. Paul Thomas Anderson called the film "a hidden gem." In 2019, Bettinelli-Olpin co-directed the well-reviewed comedic thriller Ready or Not with Tyler Gillett for Fox Searchlight. The film stars Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Andie MacDowell, and Mark O'Brien. The film was nominated for Best Horror Film at the 46th Saturn Awards. In March 2020, it was announced that Bettinelli-Olpin would co-direct the fifth installment of the Scream franchise, alongside Tyler Gillett, with Kevin Williamson serving as executive producer. The film was released on January 14, 2022. The film was nominated for Best Movie at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards. In 2022, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett directed Scream VI which was released on March 10, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. The film won Best Movie at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards and ranked #3 on The Hollywood Reporters list of "The Best Slasher Movies of the Decade". In 2023, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett directed Abigail which was released on April 19, 2024, by Universal Pictures. The film was nominated for Best Wide Release Movie at the 2024 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. and included on many best of 2024 lists including Varietys "The Best Horror Movies of 2024", Screen Rants "10 Best Horror Movies Of 2024", Bloody Disgustings "The 10 Best Horror Movies Released in the First Half of 2024", Time Outs "The Best Horror Movies of 2024" and SlashFilms "The 19 Best Horror Movies Of 2024 So Far". Filmed in Toronto during the spring of 2025 and released on March 20th 2026 by Fox Searchlight, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come stars Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, David Cronenberg, and Elijah Wood. The film premiered at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 13, 2026, received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $41 million against a $14 million budget. In almost all of their films, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett have used music from Asian Man Records artists including Alkaline Trio, Link 80, MU330 and Laura Stevenson and the Cans as well as music from the Bay Area including Too Short, The Atom Age, Link 80, The Jacka, Kamaiyah and P-Lo. Bettinelli-Olpin portrays Michael Myers in Scream in the film within a film Stab 8 and Ghostface on the TV news segment in Scream VI. Bettinelli-Olpin is also a producer on V/H/S, V/H/S/94, V/H/S/99 and V/H/S/85.
Film
Film
In 1999, Bettinelli-Olpin directed Alkaline Trio's first music video ("Goodbye Forever") while attending the University of California, Santa Cruz. In the early 2000s, he was roommates with The Lonely Island and in addition to appearing in many of their early shorts, Jorma Taccone said it was Bettinelli-Olpin's Roland BR-8 that the group used to record their first songs, saying "I made a bunch of beats on our roommate Matt’s BR-8 digital eight track and we would sample songs from records and loop stuff and then we would make four track beats and we’d stay up till 6:00 in the morning drinking and making songs". While working in the mailroom at New Line Cinema, he formed the filmmaking collective Chad, Matt & Rob in 2007 and Radio Silence in 2011.
Films and moving-image works
Catalogued output
Films and moving-image works
These entries are catalogued as moving-image works. The run opens with V/H/S and closes with untitled Mummy project. The 2020s are the densest part of the run, with 5 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself.
9 films carry dates between 2012 and 2027
V/H/S
2012
Devil's Due
2014
Southbound
2015
Ready or Not
2019
Scream
2022
Scream VI
2023
Abigail
2024
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, dated 2026. Untitled Mummy project
2027
Discography
• The Link 80 & Wet Nap Split (1995) • Remember How It Used To Be EP (1995) • Rumble At The Tracks EP (1996) • 17 Reasons (1996) • Killing Katie (1997)
Primary material
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- “Matt Bettinelli-Olpin”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6788348: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
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Awards and nominations
• Year — Award — Category — Work — Result • 2012 — SXSW — Midnight Audience Award (shared with Ti West, Adam Wingard, et al.) — V/H/S • Sitges Film Festival — Best Motion Picture • Golden Schmoes Awards — Best Horror Movie • 2016 — iHorror — Best Direct Release Horror (shared with David Bruckner, Roxanne Benjamin, et al.) — Southbound • 2019 — Sitges Film Festival — Best Motion Picture — Ready or Not • Fright Meter Awards — Best Horror Movie • Golden Schmoes Awards — Best Horror Movie • Golden Schmoes Awards — Biggest Surprise of the Year • IGN Summer Movie Awards — Best Horror Movie • Fantasy Filmfest — Best 1st or 2nd Feature • St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards — Best Horror Film • 2020 — Fangoria Chainsaw Awards — Best Wide Release • Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards — Best Horror Film • Hawaii Film Critics Society Awards — Best Horror Film • Columbus Film Critics Association Awards — Best Overlooked Film • Music City Film Critics Association Awards — Best Horror Film • 2021 — Saturn Awards — Best Horror Film • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films — Best Horror Film • 2022 — MTV Movie & TV Awards — Best Movie — Scream (2022) • People's Choice Awards — Best Movie • Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Awards — Best Horror • The Queerties — Best Studio Movie • St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards — Best Horror Film • GLAAD Media Awards — Outstanding Film Wide Theatrical Release • Saturn Awards — Best Horror Film • 2023 — MTV Movie & TV Awards — Best Movie — Scream VI • Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Film Awards — Best Horror • Saturn Awards — Best Horror Film • MTV Millennial Awards — Best Movie • 2024 — People's Choice Awards — The Drama Movie of the Year • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films — Best Horror Film • Critics' Choice Super Awards — Best Horror Movie • Golden Schmoes Awards — Best Horror Movie • Music City Film Critics' Association Awards — Best Horror Film • Astra Film Awards — Best Horror Feature • DiscussingFilm Critic Awards — Best Horror Film • Fangoria Chainsaw Awards — Best Wide Release — Abigail • 7th Astra Midseason Movie Awards — Best Horror Movie • 2025 — Saturn Awards — Best Horror Movie • 2026 — South by Southwest — Headliner Audience Award — Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
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- 1.Kit, Borys. Top Genre Filmmakers of 2026: From Curry Barker to Guillermo del Toro. The Hollywood Reporter. September 3, 2026.
- 2.Jones, Nate. The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood. New York (Magazine). July 21, 2026.
- 3.G4 Attack of the Show ("Around the Net") http://revver.com/video/919676/cmr-on-g4-tvs-attack-of-the-show/
- 4.Punknews.org. Link 80 - 17 Reasons. www.punknews.org. 28 May 2004.
- 5.Punknews.org. Link 80.
- 6.Campus Circle - Alkaline Trio. Campus Circle.
- 7.Campus Circle - Richard Butler. Campus Circle.
- 8.Link 80. Nick Traina (Memorial Video). 20 June 2016.
- 9.Stream Link 80's "Junkie Man" cover from upcoming Rancid 'And Out Come the Wolves' tribute LP. brooklynvegan.com. 2021-05-21.
- 10.-YouTube. www.youtube.com.
- 11.- YouTube. www.youtube.com.
- 12.The Lonely Island. www.thelonelyisland.com.
- 13.Scare-A-Thon: The Stories Behind "V/H/S," The Best, Most Unique Horror Anthology Movie In Years. Complex.
- 14."V/H/S" directors, Radio Silence, take on Found Footage Frankenstein Story
- 15.Radio Silence Eyes Frankenstein Found-Footage Film. 25 April 2012.
- 16.quint. Quint thinks V/H/S, a found footage horror anthology, is the first great horror flick to screen. Aint It Cool News.
- 17.Jeff Weiss. Music is one big joke to the Lonely Island. Los Angeles Times. May 24, 2011.
- 18.Erbland, Kate. How Radio Silence Went From YouTube Celebrities to Studio Auteurs. IndieWire. 2019-08-21.
- 19.Lawton, Christopher (2009-02-04), "Video Sites Entice Users To Stay and Play." Wall Street Journal
- 20.Miska, Brad. [OMFG] Our Film 'V/H/S' Will Premiere at Sundance 2012, First Look!. Bloody Disgusting!. 2011-12-02.
- 21.Zeitchik, Steven (2011-10-13), "Wingard, West headline new Bloody Disgusting film." Los Angeles Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/10/ti-west-inkeepers-bloody-disgusting-adam-wingard-youre-next.html
- 22.Barnes, Brooks. Delusional Teenagers and Other Sundance Offerings. The Carpetbagger. 2011-12-01.
- 23.Lowe, Justin. V/H/S: Sundance Film Review. The Hollywood Reporter. 2012-01-27.
- 24.Fernandez, Daniel Miller, Jay A. Sundance 2012: Magnolia Pictures Acquiring Horror Flick 'V/H/S' for North of $1 Million (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter. 2012-01-26.
- 25.The Orchard Buys Anthology Horror Movie 'Southbound' After Toronto Debut. 2015-10-08.
- 26.New film from "V/H/S" standouts Radio Silence gets date. Fangoria. 14 May 2013.
- 27.First Generation "V/H/S": Radio Silence. Diabolique. 6 August 2013.
- 28.Erbland, Kate. Toronto International Film Festival Reveals Midnight Madness and Vanguard Slate. 11 August 2015.
- 29.Fangoria (Volume 2, Issue 3) Fangoria https://twitter.com/bradmiska/status/1110741195880308737
- 30.Miska, Brad. Adam Brody Joins Samara Weaving In Radio Silence's 'Ready or Not'. Bloody Disgusting. October 18, 2018.
- 31.Gemmill, Allie. 'Scream 5' Scores 'Ready or Not' Team Radio Silence to Direct (& Scare Us Silly). Collider. March 12, 2020.
- 32.Miska, Brad. Relaunch of 'Scream' Slashing Into Theaters on January 14, 2022!. BloodyDisgusting. August 28, 2020.
- 33.Kroll, Justin. New Scream Movie From Spyglass Media Will Be Released by Paramount (EXCLUSIVE). Variety. June 24, 2020.
- 34.Shanfeld, Ethan. MTV Movie and TV Awards Winners List 2022 (Updated Live). Variety. June 5, 2022.
- 35.D'Alessandro, Anthony. Scream Sequel & Bob Marley Biopic Theatrical Release Dates Set By Paramount. Deadline. March 18, 2022.
- 36.Newby, Richard. The Best Slasher Movies of the Decade. The Hollywood Reporter. July 5, 2024.
- 37.D'Alessandro, Anthony. Universal's Melissa Barrera & Angus Cloud Monster Thriller From Radio Silence Gets Title & Trailer. Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. 11 January 2024.
- 38.Melanson, Angel. The Wait Is Over: Here Are The 2024 FANGORIA CHAINSAW AWARDS Nominees. Fangoria. July 8, 2024.
- 39.Earl, William. The Best Horror Movies of 2024 So Far, Ranked: 'Immaculate,' 'Late Night With the Devil,' 'In a Violent Nature' and More. Variety. June 20, 2024.
- 40.Hemmert, Kylie. 10 Best Horror Movies Of 2024. ScreenRant. June 15, 2024.
- 41.Navarro, Meagan. The 10 Best Horror Movies Released in the First Half of 2024. Bloody Disgusting. June 28, 2024.
- 42.de Semlyen, Phil. The best horror movies and shows of 2024 (so far) for a truly scary watch. TimeOut. July 1, 2024.
- 43.Film, Slash. The 19 Best Horror Movies Of 2024 So Far. SlashFilm. July 1, 2024.
- 44.Navarro, Meagan. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Review – Crowd-Pleasing Sequel Doubles Down on Comedic Carnage. Bloody Disgusting.
- 45.u/RadioSilenceMTC. Dreadit AMA: We're Radio Silence, the filmmaking team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella. Directors of SCREAM (2022). AMA!. Reddit. January 27, 2022.
- 46.u/RadioSilenceMTC. Dreadit AMA: We're Radio Silence, the filmmaking team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella. Directors of SCREAM (2022). AMA!. Reddit. January 27, 2022.
- 47.D'Alessandro, Anthony. 'Scream' Sequel Seeing Return Of Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding & Jenna Ortega. Deadline Hollywood. May 10, 2022.
- 48.Hipes, Patrick. 'Dune: Part Two', 'Fallout' Lead Saturn Awards Nominations. Deadline. Penske Media Corporation. December 5, 2024.
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Formation and teaching. Bettinelli-Olpin studied at University of California, Santa Cruz and Bishop O'Dowd High School. Bettinelli-Olpin worked in film production, film direction, film screenwriting and punk music. He belonged to Writers Guild of America West. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as having studied at University of California, Santa Cruz and Bishop O'Dowd High School.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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