Most influential director

[KRUGERKID13]

Tarantino is my favorite director but i dont consider him as horror. So as for horror director its Wes craven hands down.

Then its probably Carpanter, Hooper, and more recently Ronny Yu.

[Elvis_Christ]

Hitchcock for pyscho
Romero for NOTLD
Carpenter for Halloween/The Thing
Tobe Hooper for TCM
H.G Lewis for Blood Feast
William Lustig for Maniac

[Maerlyn]

Sam Raimi: for esp. Evil Dead 2
Romero: Night of the Living Dead
Peter Jackson: DeadAlive
Wes Craven; just for Nightmare on Elm Street
Clive Barker: Hellraiser
Brian Yuzna: Necronomicon, Dagon (with Julio Fernandez)
John Carpenter: Halloween

And of course Toby Hooper; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Cortonesi]

mmm...

Frank Henenlotter for Brain demage & Basket case
Carpenter for The Thing
Cronenberg for Videodrome
Aronowsky for Pigreco
Romero for Zombi
W. Lustig for Maniac
Deodato for Cannibal Holocaust
Hopper for TCM
Fulci for All...

Francesco Cortonesi

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by Cortonesi
Frank Henenlotter for Brain demage & Basket case

He's awesome. All his films rank among my favorites. Brain Damage is a brilliant/offbeat film. NY film at its finest.

[AmericanManiac]

Please bear with me my reply is long but very helpful !

Romero not only says Hitchcock is his favorite director but he had already worked with Hitch as an assistant when he made Night. Plus, visually, Psycho is obviously a big influence. So...who influenced Psycho?

Robert Bloch influenced Psycho. For those of you who don't know who Robert Bloch is He received encouragement from his pen pal and muse, who ? Horrormeister H. P. Lovecraft.He specialized in tales whos macabre twisted endings make them read like extended sick jokes. Psychopathic killers figure prominentle in his fiction. One of his best-known stories is titled, " Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper ."

In 1957, Bloch- who had relocated to Los Angeles to wrtie screenplays-moved back to Wisconsin so that his ailing wife could be close to her parents. He was living in the town of Weyauwega, less that thirty miles from Plainfeild. Wait didn't something happen in Plainfeild, Wisconsin ?? Oh yeah thats right Police broke into the tumbledown farmhouse of a middle-aged bachelor named EDWARD GEIN. Fascinated by the incredbile circumstances of the Gein affair-particularly by the fact ( as he later put it) " that a killer with perverted appetites could flourish almost openly in a small rural community where everybody prides himself on knowing everybody else's business"- Bloch hit the idea for a horror novel. The result was his 1960 thriller, Pyscho. However when he died, on September 23, 1994, the headlines of his obituaries invariably identifed him as the Author of Psycho. As interpreted by Hitchcock, this pioneering piece of serial-killer literature set the pattern for all cinematic slasher fantasies of the past 45 years.

So looks like all slasher films can give a thank you to Mr. Ed Gein, if it wasn't for you ED this probley would never be possible !

What's about Dario Argento ? I think he made somes kickass horror movies like Suspiria or Opera

[The STE]

F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu and Faust)
Fritz Lang (M)
Robert Weine (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
Romero (*Dead trilogy)

[bwind22]

Hitchcock
Romero
Fulci
Craven
Carpenter

[AmericanManiac]

For your hitchcock lovers I thinks its the TCM channel this week they will be playing all of his movies on there.