Jesse Heisel
Directing
esse Heisel is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and director with a lifelong passion for horror cinema. Inspired from an early age by the iconic slasher villain Jason Voorhees, Heisel began pursuing filmmaking as a teenager and has since built a career creating independent genre films. Viewing filmmaking as more than a profession, he approaches cinema as a lifelong creative pursuit, bringing his love of horror and practical storytelling to every project he writes, directs, and appears in.
Known for
Behind the camera3
- 2026Man Chicken Director, Writer, Producer
- 2022We Found Something Writer, Director
- TBAGo To Sleep Director
Acting2
- 2026Man Chicken as Jeffery Jeremiah Johnson
- 2015Up on the Wooftop as Elf