Best Horror Director Part II
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1. M. Night Shyamalan
Producer | Lady in the Water
Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.
He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...
Horror Movies:
1. The Sixth Sense
2. Devil
3. The Visit
4. Old
5. Knock at the Cabin
2. Andy Muschietti
Director | Mama
Andy Muschietti was born on August 26, 1973 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is a producer and director, known for Mama (2013), It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019).
Horror Movies:
1. Mama
2. It
3. It Chapter Two
3. Tyler Gillett
Cinematographer | V/H/S
Tyler Gillett was born on March 6, 1982 in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. He is a director, known for V/H/S (2012), Ready or Not (2019) and The Creator (2023).
Wildcard for him and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Horror Movies:
1. V/H/S
2. Devil's Due
3. Southbound
4. Ready or Not
5. Scream
6. Scream VI
7. Abigail
4. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
Horror Movies:
1. Psycho
2. The Birds
5. Darren Aronofsky
Writer | Pi
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won ...
Horror Movies:
1. Below
2. Black Swan
3. Mother!
6. Fede Alvarez
Writer | Don't Breathe
Fede Alvarez was born on February 9, 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a writer and producer, known for Don't Breathe (2016), Evil Dead (2013) and The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018).
Horror Movies:
1. Evil Dead
2. Don't Breathe
7. F.W. Murnau
Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...
Horror Movies:
1. Der Knabe in Blau (lost)
2. Der Januskopf (lost)
3. Schloß Vogelöd
4. Nosferatu
5. Faust
8. John Boorman
Producer | Hope and Glory
John Boorman attended Catholic school (Salesian Order) although his family was not, in fact, Roman Catholic. His first job was for a dry-cleaner. Later, he worked as a critic for a women's journal and for a radio station until he entered the television business, working for the BBC in Bristol. ...
Horror Movies:
1. Deliverance
2. Exorcist II: The Heretic
9. Damien Leone
Special_effects | Terrifier 2
Damien Leone is known for Terrifier 2 (2022), Terrifier (2016) and Terrifier (2011).
Horror Movies:
1. All Hallows' Eve
2. Frankenstein vs. the Mummy
3. Terrifier
4. Terrifier 2
10. Francis Lawrence
Director | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Francis Lawrence is an American filmmaker. He started directing over sixty music videos before he directed the cult classic Keanu Reeves film Constantine, I Am Legend and Water for Elephants. He also directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, and Red ...
Horror Movies:
1. Constantine
2. I Am Legend
11. William Friedkin
Director | To Live and Die in L.A.
Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with ...
Horror Movies:
1. The Exorcist
2. The Guardian
3. Bug
12. Edgar Wright
Director | Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg...
Horror Movies:
1. Shaun of the Dead
2. Last Night in Soho
13. Brandon Cronenberg
Director | Possessor
Brandon Cronenberg was born on January 10, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a director and writer, known for Possessor (2020), Infinity Pool (2023) and Antiviral (2012).
Horror Movies:
1. Antiviral
2. Possessor
3. Infinity Pool
14. Ari Aster
Director | Hereditary
Ari Aster is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for writing and directing the A24 horror films Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019). Aster was born into a Jewish family in New York City on July 15, 1986, the son of a poet mother and musician father. He has a ...
Horror Movies:
1. Hereditary
2. Midsommar
3. Beau Is Afraid
15. Ti West
Director | Pearl
Ti West is most notable for directing horror films, as well as being an actor, writer, producer, and editor. Ti broke out, after directing various projects, in 2009, when he directed two feature films - 2009's The House Of The Devil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever. Ti later directed, with his ...
Horror Movies:
01. The Roost
02. Trigger Man
03. The House of the Devil
04. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
05. The Innkeepers
06. V/H/S
07. The ABCs of Death
08. The Sacrament
09. X
10. Pearl
16. Robert Eggers
Director | The Lighthouse
Robert Houston Eggers is an American filmmaker and production designer. He is best known for writing and directing the historical horror films The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), as well as directing and co-writing the historical fiction epic film The Northman (2022). His films are noted ...
Horror Movies:
1. The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
2. The Lighthouse
17. Peter Strickland
Director | Katalin Varga
Peter Strickland was born in 1973 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Katalin Varga (2009), In Fabric (2018) and Berberian Sound Studio (2012).
Horror Movies:
1. Berberian Sound Studio
2. In Fabric
3. Flux Gourmet
18. Panos Cosmatos
Writer | Mandy
Panos Cosmatos is known for Mandy (2018), Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) and Tombstone (1993).
Horror Movies:
1. Beyond the Black Rainbow
2. Mandy
19. David Robert Mitchell
Writer | It Follows
David Robert Mitchell is an American director mainly known for the breakout horror film ''It Follows'' which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2014. in 2002, Mitchell wrote and directed ''Virgin'' a short film featuring Carolina Castro and Cameron Diskin about a local legend...
Horror Movies:
1. It Follows
2. Under the Silver Lake
20. Mike Flanagan
Writer | The Fall of the House of Usher
Mike Flanagan is a prolific writer, director, and editor. He entered into an exclusive overall deal with Amazon Studios in 2023 for television projects (after a similar exclusive deal with Netflix from 2018-2022), and has made feature films for Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Netflix and more. ...
Horror Movies:
1. Absentia
2. Oculus
3. Still
4. Before I Wake
5. Ouija: Origin of Evil
6. Gerald's Game
7. Doctor Sleep
21. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
Horror Movies:
1. Eraserhead
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
22. Jacques Tourneur
Director | Cat People
Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America. He was hired to ...
Horror Movies:
1. Cat People
2. I Walked with a Zombie
3. The Leopard Man
4. Night of the Demon
5. The Comedy of Terrors
23. Henry Selick
Director | Coraline
Henry Selick is a film director, specializing in films with stop-motion animation. He has formal training as an animator.
Selick was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, son of Charles H. Selick and Melanie Molan. He was mostly raised in Rumson, New Jersey. As a child, Selick took up drawing as a hobby. ...
Horror Movies:
1. The Nightmare Before Christmas
2. Wendell & Wild
24. Robert Wise
Director | West Side Story
Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...
Horror Movies:
1. The Curse of the Cat People
2. The Body Snatcher
3. Audrey Rose
25. Neil Marshall
Director | Dog Soldiers
Neil Marshall was born on May 25, 1970 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for Dog Soldiers (2002), The Descent (2005) and Doomsday (2008). He was previously married to Axelle Carolyn.
Horror Movies:
1. Dog Soldiers
2. The Descent
3. The Reckoning
4. The Lair
26. Takashi Miike
Director | Jûsan-nin no shikaku
Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, ...
Horror Movies:
01. Ôdishon
02. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku
03. Chakushin ari
04. Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu
05. Sam gang 2
06. Kuime
07. Kamisama no iu tôri
08. Gokudô daisensô
09. Terra Formars
10. Kaibutsu no kikori
27. Clive Barker
Writer | Nightbreed
Born in Liverpool, England, UK, Clive Barker is an English writer, director, and visual artist, best known for his works in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. His mother Joan Ruby (née Revill) was a painter and school welfare officer and his father Leonard Barker was a personnel director for an...
Horror Movies:
1. Hellraiser
2. Nightbreed
3. Lord of Illusions
28. Leigh Whannell
Actor | Saw
Leigh Whannell grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where, at the age of four, he developed an obsession with telling stories. Whether it be through acting, writing or filmmaking, his primary love was getting a reaction from an audience. In 1995, at the age of 18, he was accepted into the Royal ...
Horror Movies:
1. Insidious: Chapter 3
2. Upgrade
3. The Invisible Man
29. Park Chan-wook
Director | Oldeuboi
Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.
Horror Movies:
1. Sam gang 2
2. Bakjwi
30. Paco Plaza
Director | [Rec]
Paco Plaza was born in 1973 in València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for REC (2007), Veronica (2017) and [Rec]² (2009). He is married to Leticia Dolera.
Horror Movies:
1. El segundo nombre
2. Romasanta
3. [Rec]
4. [Rec]²
5. [Rec]³: Génesis
6. Verónica
7. La abuela
8. Hermana muerte
31. Alexandre Bustillo
Writer | À l'intérieur
Alexandre Bustillo was born on August 10, 1975 in France. He is a writer and director, known for Inside (2007), The Deep House (2021) and Among the Living (2014).
Wildcard for him and Julien Maury
Horror Movies:
1. À l'intérieur
2. Livide
3. Aux yeux des vivants
4. ABCs of Death 2
5. Leatherface
6. Kandisha
7. The Deep House
8. Le Mangeur d'Âmes
32. Tommy Wirkola
Writer | Død snø 2
Tommy Wirkola was born on December 6, 1979 in Alta, Norway. He is a writer and director, known for Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014), What Happened to Monday (2017) and Dead Snow (2009).
Horror Movies:
1. Død snø
2. Kurt Josef Wagle og legenden om Fjordheksa
3. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
4. Død snø 2
5. I onde dager
33. David Slade
Director | Hard Candy
David Slade was born on September 26, 1969 in the UK. He is a director and producer, known for Hard Candy (2005), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and 30 Days of Night (2007).
1. 30 Days of Night 2. Dark Harvest
34. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer | Gertrud
The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the ...
1. Prästänkan 2. Vampyr
35. Emma Tammi
Director | Five Nights at Freddy's
Emma Tammi was born on February 26, 1982 in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), The Wind (2018) and The Left Right Game (2020).
1. The Wind 2. Five Nights at Freddy's
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