Who Are The Best Horror Movie Directors?

[fogman88]

Two Matches:

Carpenter vs. Craven

and

Romero vs. Fulci (you could make it a triple threat and add H.G. Lewis)


Carpenter beats Craven by KO and Fulci beats Romero by split decision.

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

huh?

Craven and Romero, I think. I'm not sure what we're doing...

[fogman88]

Who do you think is a better director?

Carpenter or Craven

and

Romero or Fulci

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Craven and Romero.

[aborted]

what about argento?? or other great directors that i cant remember. you cant compare them, they all have different styles.

[Elvis_Christ]

FUCK OFF WITH THE DUMB VS.... THREADS!!! It's getting really fucking annoying and stupid.

As far as top horror directors go I'd have to say Carpenter (probably my all time favorite director at the moment), Argento, Fulci, Cronenberg, Raimi, and Steve Miner are people I hold in high regard.

.............and yeh Joseph Zito did a pretty cool job with The Prowler.

[Sedated_replica]

Tobe Hooper is the best

[ShankS]

too many decent horror directors, who have their own different ways in producing, to say which one's best.

[slasherman]

Hideo Nakata......or maybe Brian De Palma

[lee challenger]

The problem is that some of the best horror movies of all time have been made bydirectors who then don't bother with the genre again or when they do they can't match the standard they set.
Examples: William Friedkin with The Exorcist
Richard Donner with The Omen
Sam Raimi with The Evil Dead

Also the directors that are classed as HORROR specialists such as Wes Craven and John Carpenter make the odd good film or even a classic but then stink the place out with some awful movies.
Examples John Carpenter with the classics Halloween and The Thing but then he makes Vampires and Ghosts Of Mars.
Wes Craven with The Hills Have Eyes and Nightmare On Elm Street but then he comes out with Shocker and The People Under The Stairs.
One director that doesn't disappoint is George A Romero but he just hasn't been prolific enough over the years.
Dario Argento has been very prolific and his films are very stylish and have had some legendary scenes but the trouble with his films is that they are so hard to follow what on earth the plot is all about.

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

The People under the Stairs is good.

[The Mothman]

George A. Romero.

he wins:D

[zwoti]

Originally posted by slasherman
or maybe Brian De Palma


:p

[The_Return]

Im becoming a Carpenter fan of late...Im not a fan of Craven...they're both money grubbing peices of shit now though:mad:

[ningenmanga]

Carpenter is nothing near what he used to be, but I think he still has at least one more great film in him.

Fulci is a hack. I know that's an unpopular view, but I stand by it. There's nothing elegant in his zombie films. They're badly written, poorly written gore fests. I like to wallow in trash as much as the next horror fan, but Fulci is just too sadistic for my taste.

[The STE]

Just because he chooses to make movies in a particularly trashy genre doesn't mean he's without talent. The bad writing and poor writing have nothing to do with him as a director. The amount of gore might, but not the quality of it. You've got to look at the direction, the shots, et cetera. There's a shot in particular in Zombi that shows that he can be a good director. The one zombie, alone, walking through the deserted village. It's practically a throwaway shot, except it's the best one in the movie.



But it doesn't matter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa owns him all over.

[ningenmanga]

True, but the movie as a whole doesn't engage me in any way. I laugh at the zombie vs. shark bit, but otherwise have liitle interest in what's going on. There are too many better made zombie movies out there.

[filmmaker2]

Carpenter, Romero, Cronenberg...all intellectual horror filmmakers in very different ways.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

Wes Craven is one of the worst ever. He's done nothing for me.

[ragge123]

wes craven is one of the best!
His done evrything for me!!!!!!!!!!

[AUSTIN316426808]

Carpenter
Romero
Raimi

[immortalem]

My favorites are Cronenberg, Carpenter, Raimi, Hooper, and Romero, who are all brillant in their own ways.

[Sedated_replica]

Originally posted by ragge123
wes craven is one of the best!
His done evrything for me!!!!!!!!!!

Leave and never come back here again

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Originally posted by Sedated_replica
Leave and never come back here again

Take your own advice. ;)

[slasherman]

Originally posted by lee challenger
Examples John Carpenter with the classics Halloween and The Thing but then he makes Vampires and Ghosts Of Mars.

hmm dont think Vampires is sooo bad...:confused:
...something wrong with De Palma zwoti ?

[deadite]

personally i thinks peter jackson is the daddy!!! (excluding lotr cuz every director has a bit of a dip in their career

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by deadite
personally i thinks peter jackson is the daddy!!! (excluding lotr cuz every director has a bit of a dip in their career

Peter Jackson isn't a horror director, and he isn't all that great anyway.

[crippler666]

Carpenter - who I found out recently he had been directing horror movies under a different name

Fulchi - he did more than just zombie movies... you just have to look for them

[gordytheghoul]

Stuart Gordon, I recently had the honor of meeting the man at a screening of RE-ANIMATOR. Not only is that a great movie, but he still turns out ones like DAGON and KING OF THE ANTS.

[crazy raplh]

hitchock, craven, cunningham. I love them all.

[EXTR3MIST]

I like to wallow in trash as much as the next horror fan, but Fulci is just too sadistic for my taste

Then what "trash" do you consider palatable by comparison to Fulci?

Assuming you wouldn't go near any D'Amato or Deodato for the same sadistic reasons, are you talking Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes and suchlike?

[bwind22]

George Romero
Alfred Hitchcock
John Carpenter
Dario Argento
Wes Craven

[_____V_____]

Just got off watchin the DVD of "Sleepy Hollow" and must admit that Tim Burton is a fantastic director...

If anyone has seen his work in the early "Beetlejuice" and then "Edward Scissorhands", "Batman", "Batman Returns", "Sleepy Hollow", etc., he has a vision for the darker side of the characterization of a movie, as well as the gothic parts of a storyline...I was disappointed a bit from "Planet of the Apes" but givin him some leeway that it was one of his off-days as a director...

Batman was an awesome character when he was at the helm handling it...Edward Scissorhands generated sympathy and empathy alike, and not disgust and loathin which one would feel if one comes across such a character...and Sleepy Hollow...well its creepy, dark and immensely gothic..."HEADS WILL ROLL"...geebuz its so true when you count the number of heads which roll throughout the movie...

He's way up there with Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi and the rest when it comes to unparalleled direction, and for me I would place "Sleepy Hollow" right beside such classics as "Evil Dead", "Halloween", "TCM", "Friday the 13th" and so on...wtg Tim hope your work doesnt cool off like in "Planet of the Apes" and we get to see some seriously good ones from you in the near future....

[EXTR3MIST]

Sleepy Hollow is very effective, and you must admire Burton's eye for gothic style.

But whether he could make a decent horror movie (or even movie, for that matter) shorn of the gloss he drenches his work in remains to be seen.

[tom-tom]

What about the great Alfred Hitchcock
- though his only horror movies were Psycho
and The Birds.