William Eubank

William Eubank (also credited as Will Eubank; 威廉·尤班克; Γουίλιαμ Γιούμπανκ) is an American director from Holyoke, Massachusetts, born November 15, 1982. Often working at the intersection of suspense and spectacle, he is also known as a screenwriter and cinematographer with a strong technical sensibility.

He broke through with the sci‑fi drama Love (2011), then expanded his profile with the sci‑fi mystery The Signal (2014). Eubank later steered the disaster thriller Underwater (2020) and the supernatural franchise entry Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021), before returning to large-scale action with Land of Bad (2024), where he is additionally credited on-screen as a B1 Pilot.

Eubank’s fascination with cinema’s realism took shape early: after first seeing Chinatown, he initially believed its 1930s world was filmed in that era—an eye-opening discovery that underscored film’s power to recreate time. Like Steven Spielberg and David Lynch, he is an Eagle Scout.

Inspired by his grandfather, a U.S. Navy cinematographer, Eubank weighed military service against filmmaking and was even admitted to Annapolis before choosing the arts. He trained at Panavision in Woodland Hills as a camera repair and digital imaging technician, later calling those eight years his true film school and crediting the company’s mentorship as foundational to his career.