I'm going with Argento. His plotworking is loose and usually full of holes, the acting is usually quite stiff... but then you have the elaborately set-up gory death scenes, great music, funky lighting, ect... Most of his movies end up falling into the beautiful but cheesy catagory - which I personally like. Don't get me wrong, I love "high quality" movies, but there are certain "style over substance" directors that hit me just right. Argento is one of them. Takashi Miike also springs to mind (although Audition was a good movie all around).
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