Thread: Favorite Horror Director

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I've seen posts on this before, and usually it will have directors that have made more then a few horror movies. I don't know how many movies Rob Zombie has made, but I don't think any are good. I nominate William Friedkin. The Exorcist would definitely not be the great film it was without him. He definitely went over the top on some of his methods, but he did get results. With no prerequisite of having to make a lot of movies, who is your favorite horror director?

Dario Argento

For me it's a dead heat (;->) between Dario Argento & George Romero. Argento gets a bit of an edge because Suspiria actually changed the way I thought about horror films. Argento & Romero have their own tombstones I made for our Dead End Graveyard set up.
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Honorable mention to Lucio Fulci- The Beyond is one mindbending film!

I've always been into Wes Craven's films. When I was at college, I even based my coursework on him! Got to 'research' watching his films over and over, and I bought his biography.

I haven't enjoyed the last few though, so I'm hoping he will pick himself back up again soon!!

I am also very keen on everything that I've seen from the Pang brothers, and Tobe Hooper.


Gotta give Hitchcock a mention, too - who doean't love his horror classics such as Psycho, and The Birds!?

I don't see Tobe Hooper mentioned a lot. Mostly Wes Craven and not so much lately, John Carpenter. I think Craven and Carpenter have done both good and bad films. I'll give credit to Craven for one thing though. Like a friend of mine said, he always seems able to connect with the current younger crowd with his films, probably knowing that's where the money is.

I cant say he's my favorite, because Its too hard to pick one horror director for me, but I do enjoy M Night Shamalan's stuff alot.

If I had to pick just one I think I’d go with John Carpenter.

Other Favs.

William Castle
Tod Browning
Jacques Tourneur
Terence Fisher
Roger Corman
Val Lewton (even though he was a producer, he was probably just as important to his films as the directors)

Originally Posted by E.F. Benson

I don't see Tobe Hooper mentioned a lot. Mostly Wes Craven and not so much lately, John Carpenter. I think Craven and Carpenter have done both good and bad films. I'll give credit to Craven for one thing though. Like a friend of mine said, he always seems able to connect with the current younger crowd with his films, probably knowing that's where the money is.

I can't really see that about Craven. Outside of Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream (which he didn't write and almost turned down) I don't really see any movies that seem to have really connected with a younger audience.

My Soul To Take was a dud at the box office and when you look at some of the other stuff he has done like Shocker, The Serpent And The Rainbow, The People Under The Stairs, Vampire In Brooklyn, Cursed none of them were really embraced by the youth of that time.

Scream did that for sure but some, if not most, of that credit should really go to Kevin Williamson who wrote the screenplay.

I guess I was thinking of Nightmare on Elm Street in the 80's, Scream in the 90's, and I didn't realize My Soul To Take in the 2000's was such a dud. So I guess it's a perception I had of Wes Craven making successful films for the younger crowd at different times, and being successful at it, wasn't what I thought. I stand corrected.

Personally the only film he ever made that I liked was Nightmare on Elm Street. I think Scream was overrated.