Horror Director Tournament
 

I have selected 16 of the most reknowned horror directors (Well, 14 actually, plus 2 up and coming horror directors) to compile a tournament to determine the greatest horror director of all time...


You can vote based on whatever you want. First director to 7 votes wins (but if I'm not online to decalre the match over, it continues until I am which means the first director to 7 votes may not neccesarily end up winning if the other one passes him before I sign on and update the thread.)



Anyways, there's only 16 director's involved so most people should be familiar with at least a couple of their films...

Ready? Here we go......

Round 1 - Match 1

Alexadre Aja - High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes (remake), {FYI- He's also directing Halloween 9, due in 2007.}

vs.

Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Eaten Alive, Salem's Lot, The Funhouse, Poltergeist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Spontaneous Combustion, The Mangler, Crocodile, The Toolbox Murders (remake)

Tobe Hooper.





Heh,you will be putting me in this thing in a couple of years.:D

Alexandre Aja

High Tension's script was a little suspect which is the only bad thing I have to say about it. Hills Have Eyes was one of the very rare good remakes and with an upcoming Halloween film, plus only being about 28 I believe, he's got the potential to blow Hooper away.

I was expecting a blowout, but we're all tied up right now after the first couple of votes. 1-1





Aja is only 27! (Hard to believe the guy's less than 2 years older than me and already has 2 pretty kick ass films under his belt plus another on the way. I need to get my ass in gear...)

I totally expect a 7+ to my 1, obviously he hasn't surpassed Hooper in films made or quality films made, but he got my vote because I believe in time he'll far surpass him.

oddly enough - i'm going to agree with Austin. . . Hooper has had a decent run, TCM is one of the greatest American horror films and Poltergeist had a few non-Speilberg moments. . . but Aja shows promise and I'll vote for promise (at least over a disappointing career)

Alexandre Aja

Hooper still gets my vote out of respect for past gems.

This is blowing me away, but Aja leads Hooper 3-2!!!

This could be a major upset in the making.

Need more votes...

Tobe Hooper

Another vote for Aja here. Sure, he's only made two films so far, but both of them were excellent. Hooper, on the other hand, has made a very few good films, and a lot of really awful ones in a 30+ year career. Not a good average.

AJA

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you people are crazy... :p

Tobe Hooper

(The ending to Haute Tension ruined the movie completely for me)

Re: ...
 

I couldn't agree more.



Aja leads 5-4! Need more votes...


(And just FYI, I'll be signing off now until much later this evening so vote away....)

Tobe Hooper

As an overall director, I'll have to go with Aja. Yes, ending of 'High Tension' sucked royally, but it had a lot more going on in it than that.
CK

Aja

Tobe Hooper. I hated High tension for the most part.

Alexandre Aja pulls out a massive upset over Tobe Hooper 7-6! (wow!)



Round 1 - Match 2

Dario Argento - The Bird with Crystal Plumage, Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebre, Inferno, Opera, The Card Player


Clive Barker - Hellraiser, NIghtbreed, Lord of Illusions



First one to 7 wins...

Argento...

Very tough match. But, I'm going to go with Clive Barker.

Barker

Argento

Dario. all of his movies are exceptional.

Just to pound another nail in the coffin...

Argento

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Definately Argento.

Argento

Dario destroys Clive 9-2!

Next match coming right up.

Round 1 - Match 3


Let's see if the tournaments only other up & comer (The first was Aja) can pull off as big an upset as his new school peer...



Eli Roth - Cabin Fever, Hostel {He is also slated to direct 4 more upcoming horror films between now and 2007. Hostel 2, The Box, The Bad Seed and Cell.}

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

First one to 7 wins.

thats a hard one, but ill go with cronenberg.

Eli Roth couldn't direct traffic down a one way street :D
CRONENBERG !!!!!!
CK

They'll all be hard. I only took 16 very well known directors.



2-0 Cronenberg is out to an early lead!

Cronenberg

Cronenberg


Not that anyone cares, but this is my 101st post, yeah for me, it only took like 2 and a half years.

Cronenburg, no question

ditto