Top 10 Greatest Horror Directors
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Wes Craven and John Carpenter are both horror geniuses
What movies can rot in hell for all I care I hate or films they're not of his know every character except the killer set the hall without shell of an entity and they're just as bad as a romance or musical and that they have no plot whatsoever
Facts
@@rayd3657 Comedy.
@@rayd3657 Nope u suck
no i they aren’t
Wes Craven left an astronomical impact on the industry with his leaps in directing horror films. The genre wouldn’t be what it is today if it weren’t for his ability to rewrite so many of the worn out tropes and cliches. He’s a truly awesome director, hope his legacy will live on for years to come
Finally did a list right!
CAUSE JOHN CARPENTER IS THE GREATEST HORROR DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME
YES
+Stricker Calhoun Everyone on this list is great, but John has one extra factor. His self-compositions for his films spook the audience like no other.
John Carpenter is the GOAT
I agree man. I love his style. Even his shit films (Ghost of Mars and Prince of Darkness) are awesome.
Wes craven is better. john only got popular cause of the themes
John Carpenter is a legend. Halloween is one of the greatest horror films ever made and The Thing is awesome while They Live is just badass with Rowdy Roddy Piper.
I agree..John Carpenter did one of the best franchises. Halloween. Everytime I watch it, it still has that creepiness to it. Straight genius.
But my favorite still is Stephen King. Can't believe he is not on the list
Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Sam Rami, George A Romero, And Jams Wan, Is My Favorite Horror Movie Director's Of All Time
And RIP Wes Crevan And RIP George A Romero😢
Glad Carpenter made number 1. His version of The Thing is a film I watch almost every year.
“Scream” got me into horror movies, I admired the genre. Also I got to know the greatest masters of horror very well; I got to learned their creations and inspirations which was very very compelling and refreshing. I became a horror movie nerd. I love the genre. I love the Masters of Horror❤️🖤
Amen thanks for the nightmares Mr Craven!
May you rest in paradise
Mario Bava anyone? No... Guess not then.
Agree, if Mario Bava isnt in here, this isnt a good top 10
The "La Maschera del Demonio" is a classic masterpiece
Good to see AT LEAST Fulci tho
it`s watchmojo, what do you expect?
Joshua Price i love bava's films
Joshua Price I guess he was considered more than just a horror director, on the same level as Polanski.
Funny thing, practically all the directors owe him something!
You're right. Mario Bava should be on here.
"Pinhead is one of horror's most recognizable figures"
Never even shows him
John Carpenter manages to not only be phenomenal with horror, but also with sci-fi and action.
Sam Raimi, John Carpenter and Wes Craven are my favorites.
They got Pinhead confused with Frank.
That's 'cause they're idiots.
that's how bad they are
Freaking love The Thing, best John Carpenter film.
The Nintari Nerd Halloween
Skeleton Crew incorrect
@@jonathanapple4828 You would be incorrect.
@@skeletoncrew6500 Yes
Vizzy I’m afraid you’re incorrect
Fun fact Wes Craven didn't like to do horror movies but after nightmare on elm street he was only offered to do horror movies, what he really wanted to do was romance movies
Lucio Fulci è un maestro!
a mio avviso Dario Argento è superiore. ma sono solo gusti.
where the f*ck is Hitchcock.
Ain't a horror director. Yeah psycho is the best horror film ever made which is directed by Hitchcock
Horror is not Hitchcock's focus.
Because his films have different genre like spy movies and mystery movies
Brilliant list 😊 Everything in it; Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, Cronenberg and even Dario Argento❤
Guillmero de Toro did some great horror movies, he should have been in the list.
He's too overated
That wasn't Pinhead, that was Uncle Frank!
JOE DANTE anybody
Dario Argento is my #1 but I like this list. Anyway, it's a shame that you didn't even mention Mario Bava
irina1296 Dario Argento is the real goat
Darren Lynn Bosman, Adam Green, Robert Hall, Alexander Aja, Lamberto Bava, Eli Roth..I also think Sam Raimi should've been way above in this list
Sam raimi is probably my favorite director right now. He is so underrated and deserves much more praise then he is getting.
Lucio Fulci is my favourite. His Gates of hell trilogy is a masterpiece especially The Beyond. The ending of that film is the greatest ending in horror that often gets overlooked.
Thankyou so much for including Dario Argento!!! Notable films: Suspiria (1977), Inferno(1980), Deep Red (1975), Phenomena (1985), Four Flies On Grey Velvet(1971), Opera(1987) and The Bird With The Crystal Plumage(1970).
Forgot Cat O’ nine tails
And Mother of tears
I was so happy to find Dario Argento in this list. He’s never really talked about in terms of mainstream horror/thriller. My favorite director ever!
Tom Holland, known for directing Fright Night (1985), Child's Play (1988), & Stephen King's The Langoliers (1991).
Unholy Periodza seen all 3
Roman Polanski has made some great horror movies he should be in the top three
@Smilebackifyoureugly Stephen King is an author not a director.
3:18 in... Hellraiser isn't a slasher, and that guy they kept showing while saying "Pinhead" was not Pinhead... Zombie 2 was not a sequel to "Dawn of the Dead". Dawn of the Dead was known as Zombi in Italy, and when Fulci released his film he decided to just call it "Zombi 2".
+Ryan Day he also mispronounced connoisseur unless that is a reference to david cronenberg's movies that I am unaware but I cringed hard
R.I.P. Wes Craven. :'(.
He will be with us in our dreams
Good list (except for Rob Zombie), but where's Mario Bava, Roger Corman and Stuart Gordon?
What's wrong with Rob Zombie..?
devils rejects i actually enjoyed but house of 1000 was a great throwback to grindhouse movies of the 70s.
Rob zombie is one of the best for sure👌
Maybe he only directed one horror film, but William Friedkin's direction of The Exorcist has to go down as one of the greatest in movie history.
+DanceswW
No, he also directed The Guardian and Bug.
My top 10:
1) John Carpenter
2) David Cronenberg
3) Terence Fisher
4) Dario Argento
5) Tod Browning
6) Mario Bava
7) Sam Raimi
8) Wes Craven
9) George A. Romero
10) Jesús Franco
Honorable mentions:
James Whale
Roger Corman
Roman Polanski
Brian De Palma
Lucio Fulci
Tobe Hooper
Where’s Rob Zombie…? 😢
carpenter is really the best.
Filip Němec I agree
I have not yet seen the thing but my favourite movie
is Halloween
everything about it I 💖🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
the soundtrack
the FILM of course
and the characters I mean Lynda haha
I TOTALLY 💖 it
Pinhead wasn't trying to do a blood ritual, he was trying to stop Frank from escaping hell.
Argento is, and will always be the greatest horror director of all time. John Carpenter is pretty good, though.
True
fuck yeah
Depends in the movie
Carpenter has a WAY better track record. Argento has a handful of untouchable masterpieces, but a looooooot of dogshit. Carpenter had a good 20 year run or so of movies that ranged from "decent" to "masterpiece".
I agree with some of these, like John and Wes being number 1 and 2, respectively. I would put Sam Raimi higher personally, and would include Joe Dante somewhere.
I'd flip 1 and 2, personally, but it could be argued either way. Good list.
Most people tend to forget that a almost half of John Carpenter’s films are non-horror films, such as Escape From New York and its sequel, Starman, Assault On Precinct 13, Big Trouble In Little China, Memoirs of An Invisible Man, Dark Star, and the TV movie “Elvis”, which marked his first collaboration with Kurt Russell.
How can you place Hooper above Cronenberg, a two-hit wonder versus a legend? That's some hot garbage.
I agree. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is my favorite movie of all time, but Hooper never reached that level again. Cronenberg is my favorite director because he knocks it out of the park nearly every time he makes a movie.
One of those hits is really Spielberg’s movie more than Hooper’s if we’re being honest
Poltergeist certainly has a Spielberg feel to it, although the subject remains controversial.
That's true. David cronenberg should be ahead of him
Plus he is the king of body horror
RIP Wes Craven!
One honorable mention- Guillermo del Toro. Try to watch "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" and look at vents and shadows the same way.
Wes Craven better be here cause he's #1...
+Yesenia Flores so true
Yea
+Yesenia Flores you forgot about John Carpenter
+Wesker. 1 wes craven.
2 john carpenter
+someweird guy Wes craven is #2 John Carpenter is #1
Long live John Carpenter!
Hard to beat Carpenter: Halloween invented the Slasher (or brought it into the mainstream) and The Thing is generally regarded as a top5 Horror movie of all time. Rob Zombie being an honorable mention is a joke, his hillbilly/whitetrash horror has always been weak, Eli Roth should have taken his place in Honorable Mention. I'd bet Adam Wingard or Ti West would make Honorable Mention in a decade from now. That tandem has made some great and original horror movies that aren't just the rehashed spooky house/haunted children/ghost stories. Also think Adam Green is another to keep an eye on.
I'm glad you remembered James Whale. without him, these other guys would be doing westerns
Hello kitty
so happy you put Carpenter no1....and such a shame he hasn't directed anything for years...one of the best directors of all time!
You guys get props for name-dropping the brilliant Takashi Miike
Robert Eggers, Ari Astar, Scott Derrickson, Mike Flanagan, and Jordan Peele have been lending their talents to the genre more recently in all the best ways.
Drag me to hell gave me nightmares for months when I was little.
Just in length.
Dead Zone is hardly talked about really. Videodrome is the Cronenberg movie that should have been mentioned. Long live the new flesh.
no john carpenter means no halloween meaning no modern-day slasher, good list watchmojo carpenter deserves the #1 spot for making the best horror movie of all time
James Whale should have been on the list, not just an honorable mention, and no Tod Browning either? These two gentlemen helped jumpstart the first major wave of horror films with Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931). These guys are extremely important in horror history.
Great list and I’m happy to see Carpenter get the recognition he deserves. He is number 1 in my book.
Ditto
The Top 10 👍 Greatest Horror Directors of All-Time:
10. Clive Barker™
9. James Wan™
8. Lucio Fulci™
7. Sam Raimi™
6. David Cronenberg™
5. Tobe Hooper™
4. Dario Argento™
3. George A. Romero™
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2. Wes Craven™
Honorable Mentions:
Terence 🐟 Fisher™
Rob Zombie™
Takashi Miike™
James 🐳 Whale™
1. John Carpenter™
Totally missed out on another great Italian gothic horror director, Mario Bava.
New horror movie directors :
* Jordan Peele
* Ari Aster
* Andy Muschietti
* Robert Eggers
* Mike Flanagan
Fisher and Whale are merely honorable mentions, while overrated directors like Wan and Hooper are included on the actual list? Very odd indeed. At least you didn't put Zombie on the actual list... THAT would've been even more embarrassing.
Hawkeye WatchMojo is too young to remember the Hammer Studios
greatest talents.
Directors who are sciptwriters:
11. Brian de Palma
10. Tobe Hooper
9. Frank Darabont
8. Clive Barker
7. Stuart Gordon
6. John Carpenter
5. George A. Romero
4. David Cronenberg
3. Wes Craven
2. Mario Bava
1. Dario Argento
We'll never forget you, Wes Craven. :(
Wes Craven hands down!!!! No disrespect to any other person on the list. But Wes made my childhood awesome!!!
I think Wes Craven will be # 1
Batman no his number 2
I once met and chatted with Cronenberg, he also signed my DVD's and Blu-Ray. He's an incredibly nice guy
+óli austfjörð did he gave you poop on a napkin?
+pepamethodman no, no he did not.
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did he at least pissed on his palms?
well, yeah, obviously.
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Uh...mm....
Rami is #1
What? How can you have a list of the greatest horror directors ever without Alfred Hitchcock?? PSYCHO is the original slasher movie! 2 decades before TCM & Halloween. It’s the movie that made me fall in love with horror! No disrespect to anyone else on this list, but Hitchcock has a greater influence on horror & suspense than probably any other director in history.
I would also throw Roger Corman on this list too. He made some of the greatest horror movies of all time with guys like Vincent Price, Boris Karloff & even Jack Nicholson. 😎
Hitchcock is for thrillers not horrors.
I'm glad James Wan got recognized here.
Should be higher , That man taught the West how to scream again
Nah, he shouldn't be top 10 though.
@@vizzy1923cmon bro Saw 1 The Conjuring 1 & 2 Insidious
all phenomenal films
I'm so happy they mentioned David Cronenberg. Body horror has always had such an effect on me
This list is okay, but it is ethnocentrically and conspicuously missing Asian horror directors. I like Clive Barker, but he gets a spot on the list over Takashi Miike, who only got an honorable mention? No way in hell. And Takashi Shimizu, responsible for flicks like Ju-On: The Grudge, Marebito and One Missed Call, or Hideo Nakata responsible for Ringu, Dark Water and The Complex isn't even mentioned at all? You all need to brush up on your Asian horror. Everyone else obviously has considering the fact that half the movies I just mentioned have been remade (not as well I might add) by filmmakers in the West.
And Mario Bava
Yeah, he really should've been on the list!
The lasts 4 years has been pretty incredible with the likes of Ari Aster, Robert Eggers and Jordan Peele. We’ll see where they rank before death comes for them.
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Yes!
+Colton Backer
XD Yes
yass
Yes Pls Finally we could get a good top 10
Wes Craven is my reason for going to college. I was amazed as a kid watching scream and the last house on the left. He is in my heart, rest in peace Wes.
What is it about his films above other horror directors.
Mario Bava? Tod Browning?
Perhaps a follow-up list?
The Thing & Halloween are two of the greatest movies ever, not just horror movies. This is why Carpenter is at the top. I would have found a place for Terrence Fisher in the top 10, those Hammer films are classics.
No Peter Jackson?
I love the list, however I do think they needed to put directors that honestly set such a precedence with their works such as Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Henri-Georges Clouzot. I understand the primarily horror director but I see it as some of scariest most disturbing frightening and wrenching moments come from these directors. The shower scene in psycho, the rape scene in Clockwork, and wifes heartattack in diaboliques.
I am definitely a film con-wah-sur...
1.david f sandberg
2.james wan
3.justin dec
4.gary dauberman
5.andy muschietti
6.michael chavez
7.corin hardy
8.john r leonetti
9.jeaum collet-serra
10.bryan bertino
James wan Track list of this man is just incredible
the only two “modern” horror films i’ve liked are The Mist and Sinister…both Conjurings 1&2 Insidious 1 Saw 1 i also like from James Wan since lets say the year 2004 (20 years)
10.) Clive Barker
9.) James Wan
8.) Lucio Fulci (1927-1996)
7.) Sam Raimi
6.) David Cronenberg
5.) Tobe Hooper (1943-2017)
4.) Dario Argento
3.) George A. Romero (1940-2017)
2.) Wes Craven (1939-2015)
1.) John Carpenter
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Honorable Mentions:
1.) Terence Fisher (1904-1980)
2.) Rob Zombie
3.) Takashi Miike
4.) James Whale (1889-1957)
what about m night shyamalan? oh wait it says horror, not horrible
All the horror movies, that he's directed yet, have been seriously good
+ChrosTV He has only ever made like 2 good movies.
+A Salty Pannon signs, the six sense, the four feathers, unbreakable and the visit were good imo
Andrew Smith idk after lady in the water and avatar its hard to see past the mountain of shit
+Joshua De Vera The happening is the best comedy ever.
Oh wow, for once WatchMojo get a list absolutely spot on!
In terms of horror and how it's executed I have to disagree with SO many of the choices on this list. The way I see it is that there's a difference between an iconic horror director and a fantastic horror director. What I mean is they can be iconic but still not really make anything scary. George A. Romero is a director who has made iconic films but they're not scary. They have too many over used tropes that ruin any kind of tension in a film. Robert Eggers, director of the recent film 'The Witch' is a fantastic horror director. He makes full use of a frame and sound design with hardly any music to build an over all unsettling feeling. The same can be said for Jennifer Kent who directed 'The Babadook,' she proves that a movie that separates itself from common and familiar horror film tropes makes the experience much scarier. Even earlier M. Night Shyamalan knew this. The Sixth Sense for the most part stayed way from familiar tropes. Less is more and these directors understand that.
+Bottom Glass Cinema To each is own, I haven't seen "The Witch" yet but I found the babadook to be more depressing then scary. Although I do agree about Romero not being that scary.
Romero created the zombie trope, and it is also a truly terrifying movie (especially when you consider it was made in) 1968. His blueprint is still being used 50 years later. I have a difficult time finding any antecedents for Night. A couple exist (Black Christmas for example) for Halloween, but it also occupies a similar position.
George Romero and John Carpenter are my 2 favourite horror directors of all time.
Between them there's a smorgasbord of classic films. Night Of The Living Dead, Halloween, The Fog, Dawn Of The Dead, The Thing, Christine, Creepshow, Day Of The Dead, Prince Of Darkness, In The Mouth Of Madness, Land Of The Dead, They Live, Someone's Watching Me, Bruiser, Body Bags, Diary Of The Dead, The Crazies, The Ward, and on And on …
Yeah they probably are the two greatest.
" You can't kill the Boogey Man " =))
I'm so happy that Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter were listed.
+Plain View haha
who made this list?????
James Wan is highly underrated in my opinion!
You got Hellraiser wrong. Frank is trying to acquire blood because, he died in the hands of Pinhead and his cenobites.
Another amazing horror Top 10 from Mojo, Thanks guys loved it !!!
first off WatchMojo, you got the Hellraiser info wrong. second pretty solid list. third where is Sean Cunnigham?
James wan, Wes Craven, and John carpenter are my favorite
WOW GARBAGE THIS LIST. You left out at least three true masters, Roger Corman, Mario Bava and Tod Browning!!! (Pssst Rob Zombie gtfo)
Pinheaded isn’t the one trying to get blood to bring him back to life
My Nr. 1 will always be M. Night Shyamalan
Suggestions:
-Roger Corman
-Tod Browning
-Peter Jackson
-Mario Bava
-Brian De Palma
-Stuart Gordon
-Brian Yuzna
+Marco Estiercol Most people probably don't even remember that Peter Jackson has done a "horror" movie [1992's Braindead, or Dead Alive for USA'ers], so I can understand him not being on this list, but all the others should AT LEAST be honorable mentions.
RIP Wes Craven you made some of the best movies in the world
I agree entirely John is the best Horror Director to ever live
exactly some are complaining saying that craven should be number 1 but they dont realize that craven himself stated he wouldnt be able to make scream and nightmare on elmstreet if it wasnt for halloween i mean hes good but carpenter has influenced way way more the Thing is what made tarantino make reseirvor dogs and how can we forget all of his epic scores i love the christine score and the new halloween score as well
Well deserved winner, love carpenter, one of the best all round directors never mind just horror
David Fincher did some great work- although Aliens 3 wasn't great,it was ambitious. Both Seven and Zodiac were incredible
Fuck yeah, WatchMojo, this is one of your rare best top lists that I'm totally agree with! Glad that John got to the #1 spot, he totally deserved it! Truly a Master of Horror!
Wes Craven made three films that redefined horror in their decades:.Last House, ANOES and Scream, and for that alone he should've been #1.
+coffycup75 he would never ever had made a nightmare on elm street aas good as it is if halloween hand't been made, and john carpenter actually defined horror in the 70's and 80's with halloween and the thing, i forgot also that without halloween there would't be scream....wes craven said it on an interview....