John Carpenter - After watching Cigarette Burns I see he still has some left in the tank.

with all due respect to Whale for making the first American horror masterpiece ( - Dracula was first but, in all fairness, not a masterpiece) . . . i still vote


John Carpenter

Carpenter wins in a 7-0 shutout!

Next match up soon....

Round 2 - Match 6

Coming off a crushing Round 1 7-0 shutout of Eli Roth....

David Cronenberg - Shivers, Rabid (aka Rage), The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers

And his opponent.... Who managed to best Guillermo del Torro by a score of 7-4 in the opening round...

Lucio Fulci - A Lizard in Womans Skin, Dont Torture a Duckling, Dracula in the Provinces, The Psychic, Zombie (aka Zombi 2) , City of the Living Dead (aka The Gates of Hell), Black Cat, The Beyond, The House by the Cemetary, The Ripper, Evil Eye, Touch of Death, The Sweet House of Horrors, Demonia (aka Liza), Voices from Beyond


First to 7 wins.

Fulci has some great stuff but David Cronenberg has more films that I just love. So... yeah... David.

tuff choice...Fulci...

1-1.


Need more votes....

Cronenberg. Not much direction involved when you basically make all zombie movies ("stumble around and grunt in a convincing manner" LOL).
CK

David Cronenberg