14 Facts About Matthias Hoene

Matthias Hoene began with animated music videos, then commercials and short films, before getting into feature films and episodes of television series.

Matthias Hoene's film Cockneys vs Zombies won multiple awards, while The Warriors Gate was an international fantasy action epic produced by Europacorp.

Matthias Hoene's latest film Little Bone Lodge was a psychological thriller with a horror twist.

Matthias Hoene grew up in Berlin, where his father was a scientist specializing in high-energy transmission tubes for lasers, and his mother was an alternative medicine enthusiast.

That advertisement and another Matthias Hoene directed for the UK Central Office of Information, featuring computer graphics of a highly stylized, apocalyptic universe, were recognized by a 2003 directors award from Boards advertising magazine.

Matthias Hoene directed other television commercials for Partizan over the next few years including for London Elects in 2004, Dyson in 2005, and Kellogg's in 2006.

Matthias Hoene returned to commercials after his success with dramatic works.

In 2008 Matthias Hoene directed Beyond the Rave, a 20-episode British horror serial on MySpace, which was the first film produced by Hammer Films in 30 years.

Three of the supporting roles were played by Cockney actors whose humorous improvisations inspired Matthias Hoene to make a movie centered around Cockney characters.

Matthias Hoene had then been living in East London for three years, and made the film a love letter to the East End of London, showing many of the area's locations.

In 2016 Matthias Hoene directed Luc Besson's Chinese and French science fiction action-adventure film The Warriors Gate, written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.

In 2021, Hoene began filming Theodosia, a children's fantasy adventure television series based on the Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos books by R L LaFevers.

In 2023, Matthias Hoene directed Little Bone Lodge, known as The Last Exit, a thriller film about two criminals in a home invasion in the Scottish Highlands meeting a family with its own secrets.

Matthias Hoene said that he wanted to direct a straight character based thriller, unlike the action comedy and horror comedy that he had become known for.