Who Is Your Favorite Horror Director/Filmmaker?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Mine is Wes Craven.

[888888]

What about Clive Barker?

[MOVIEGEEK]

What about Clive Barker?

Thanks...I knew I forgot somebody.

[redwudz]

For me, it's really tough. All of the people mentioned have their own style and methods. I like them all. If I really had to pick, it would be Alfred Hitchcock. Maybe because I grew up with his films.

I stll like Psycho. B+W, no gore. Subtle, but scary. It amazes me that the two sequels, though not as good, hold up well on their own. Anthony Perkins carries off his character perfectly though all the versions.

[Rookie64]

If any of these guys count, they'd be my top picks:

William Friedkin (The Exorcist)
F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Haunted Castle, etc)
Bob Clark (Black Christmas...yea, he does comedies too, Porky's, A Christmas Story, etc)
Werner Herzog (Nosferatu the Vampyre)
Paul Morrissey (Flesh For Frankenstein - aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
Gianfranco Mingozzi (Flavia The Heretic)
Paul Schrader (Cat People)
Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
Philip Kaufman (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Quills, etc)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr)

Somewhat:

Brian De Palma (Sisters, The Fury, Carrie, Dressed To Kill)
John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween, etc)
George A. Romero (Night Of The Living Dead, Knightriders)
Dario Argento (Suspiria, Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Cat o' Nine Tails, etc)
Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Evil Eye, Hercules in the Haunted World, etc)
Lucio Fulci (Zombie, The Black Cat, Don't Torture a Duckling, etc)
Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, The Birds, Frenzy, etc)
Jess Franco (Lorna the Exorcist, Jack The Ripper, etc)

The other choices don't really impress me much, though I like some of Wes Craven's early films. Was creeped out a bit by Last House On The Left when I saw that at a Drive-in when I was a kid, even though most won't consider that much of a horror fiick.

[Dr. DOS]

Hitchcock... the master of suspense and goreless horror IMO

[offline]

The list lacks a lot of greats. I did not vote.

Where is Guillermo del Toro, writer director of Chronos and
The Devils Backbone ????

What about:

John Landis for Amercian Werewolf in London
Sam Raimi for Evil Dead
Peter Jackson for Dead Alive
Stephen Frears for Dirty Pretty Things
Jean Epstien for numerous classics, icluding the Usher films
Paul Verhoeven for Hollow Man
Luigi Batzella for those crazy italian films

[yoda313]

Hello,

Choose other - not really into horror.

How about any movie directed by Kevin Costner??

Those 3 1/2 hour snoozers that I'd never see and all bombed. Yuck.

Kevin

If, as you say, you are "not really into horror" then
perhaps you could wait until a suitable thread
that interests you passes you by?

Blatant hijacking is not acceptable. This is an
informal warning

/ Moderator Offline

[housepig]

nitpicking....

- Stephen King? love the writing, but Maximum Overdrive aside, I wouldn't consider him a filmmaker.

- what about
-- David Cronenburg (Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid)
-- Don Coscarelli (Phantasm series, Bubba Ho Tep)
-- James Whale (Frankenstein)
-- Terence Fisher (Horror of Dracula, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed)
-- Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks, The Unknown)

[tgpo]

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[ViRaL1]

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Don't go on blathering, just pick someone.

[offline]

tgpo needs to be taken into the woods...

Another two horrors that were not mentioned:
Robert Wise's Sound of Music & Burton's
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory .ugggh nightmares!!

[CoasterCreator]

to me it would have to be hitchcock ..I also have a thing with sight .....a little voyeristic kind of reminds me of that new flick SAW ...

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Are you sure?

I believe Stephen King and Clive Barker are screenwriters/authors and not directors/filmmakers

And ....John Carpenter, John Carpenter, John Carpenter, John Carpenter, ....

[offline]

Yeah... John Carpenter did a great job with The Thing !

[FulciLives]

I picked Lucio Fulci of course but I'm surprised that Fulci made the list but not Dario Argento or Mario Bava.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
I'd vote 2nd for George A. Romero

[NamPla]

Does Ishiro Honda count as a horror director? I think he does!

Whatta legend!