Jamie Blanks is a film director

Film director

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 and composer

Composer

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, he is probably most famous for directing the 1998 cult slasher film

Slasher film

A slasher film is a type of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe...

 Urban Legend

Urban Legend (film)

Urban Legend is a 1998 horror film starring Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Jared Leto, Michael Rosenbaum, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Loretta Devine, Robert Englund, John Neville, Joshua Jackson, Regina King, and Tara Reid...

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Biography

He attended film school at Melbourne’s Swinburne Film School (becoming the Victorian College of the Arts during his three years of study).

Blanks gave commentaries on the "Urban Legend" & "Valentine" (2001) DVDs. He's 3rd feature Storm Warning

Storm Warning (2007 film)

Storm Warning is a 2007 Australian horror film directed by Urban Legend director Jamie Blanks.-Plot:Rob and Pia, a couple who are out for a day of sailing become lost in a heavy storm and end up on a desolate island. They come across a barn with no one home. There is a large amount of marijuana in...

recently won awards for Special Effects and Score at Screamfest 07. Blanks was shooting, editing and scoring, his 4th feature, Nature's Grave, starring Jim Caviezel and Claudia Karvan

Claudia Karvan

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 for a late 2008 release.

Silent Number

Silent Number was Jamie Blanks' first film. The film revolves around a female babysitter as she spends the night at a creepy house during an electrical storm. During the night, she receives a number of telephone calls from an unidentified caller. The voice sounds scared and pleads the babysitter for help. We eventually discover the calls are not coming from any normal source.

Silent Number is not available for at-home viewing, however it can be viewed on-site at the VCA library in Melbourne, Australia. It may also be available for viewing at some other libraries.

Director

• Silent Number (1993)
• Urban Legend
  Urban Legend (film)
  Urban Legend is a 1998 horror film starring Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Jared Leto, Michael Rosenbaum, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Loretta Devine, Robert Englund, John Neville, Joshua Jackson, Regina King, and Tara Reid...
  
  (1998)
• Valentine
  Valentine (film)
  Valentine is a 2001 horror film directed by Jamie Blanks, and starring Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, Hedy Burress, and Katherine Heigl. It is a slasher film with a Valentine's Day theme...
  
  (2001)
• Storm Warning
  Storm Warning (2007 film)
  Storm Warning is a 2007 Australian horror film directed by Urban Legend director Jamie Blanks.-Plot:Rob and Pia, a couple who are out for a day of sailing become lost in a heavy storm and end up on a desolate island. They come across a barn with no one home. There is a large amount of marijuana in...
  
  (2007)
• Nature's Grave (2008)

Composer

• The Abbarant (1991)
• Storm Warning
  Storm Warning (2007 film)
  Storm Warning is a 2007 Australian horror film directed by Urban Legend director Jamie Blanks.-Plot:Rob and Pia, a couple who are out for a day of sailing become lost in a heavy storm and end up on a desolate island. They come across a barn with no one home. There is a large amount of marijuana in...
  
  (2007)
• Nature's Grave (2008)

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