Ian Francis Tripp is an American filmmaker and actor who wrote and co-directed the found footage film Everybody Dies by the End (2022) and wrote and directed the black and white film Sincerely Saul (2024).
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Personal life
Tripp grew up in San Diego, California. He became interested in directing when he was eight years old, and started making films when he was a teenager.
Career
Tripp directed Ryan Schafer in a 2015 short film called Philip Finds Love. He often works with Schafer, along with actors Vinny Curran and Caroline Amiguet on his films. In 2024, Tripp acted in and co-produced the film Daydreamer by Sam Sprague.
Released films
Tripp co-directed his debut film Everybody Dies by the End with Schafer. It premiered at FrightFest in 2022, and was listed on Vulture's 15 Horror Movies About Showbiz and Rotten Tomatoes' 100 Best Found Footage Movies. Ginger Nuts of Horror wrote it was "a great job on a limited budget." The Hollywood News, Horror Press, and Morbidly Beautiful praised the film, but Video Librarian did not recommend it, criticizing its filmmaking topic.
His next film Sincerely Saul starred Schafer, and included numerous actors from the former. Film critic Daniel M. Kimmel compared it to seeing Eraserhead by David Lynch when it first released and wrote "don’t discount the possibility that writer/director Ian Tripp just might have more ambitious works in his future." HorrorBuzz wrote "Tripp has a knack for earning laughs out of otherwise serious subject matter." The New York Times wrote it is a "gloriously demented low-fi horror comedy" and Variety listed it on their Best Horror of October 2025.
Both films were produced under Tripp's production company Children of Celluloid.