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Kevin McDonagh (born September 11, 1980) is a British born low budget film and television director, who mainly works on horror and science fiction projects through Rotunda Films, which he formed in Birmingham in 2004. He is best known for the werewolf thriller Lycanthropy (2005), unusual for being set in Birmingham and financed through deferred payments of the 40 cast and crew. The film starred George Calil, Suzanne Collins, and David Bradley.

Both Lycanthropy and McDonaugh's Idol of Evil (2006) were later distributed by Warner Brothers and received terrible reviews, with The Zone comparing Lycanthropy to the American teen horrors that "littered the discount bins since the late 1980s... designed to glut the market and make its money back only in the large number of ditto rubbish films that it can resell in bulk purchases."

McDonaugh's Wasters (2009) was voted Best Film at the Heart of England Festival in 2009. In 2012, he directed a short film, The Eleventh Hour, for Ilex Films, starring Holly Kenyon, who also appears in McDonagh's upcoming feature Celestial Sisters (2014).

The Internet Movie database lists McDonagh's upcoming project as a feature length documentary about the history of the Hellraiser movie series, which includes interviews with the cast.