Movies Which Director Has The 2 Best Horror Movies

[GoodBadHBK]

John Carpenter - Halloween & The Thing

Wes Craven - A Nightmare on Elm Street & Scream

George Romero - Night of the Living Dead & Dawn of the Dead

Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho & The Birds

Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Poltergeist

Sam Rami - Evil Dead & Evil Dead 2

James Wan - Saw & The Conjuring

Dario Argento - Deep Red & Suspiria

David Cronenberg - The Fly & Videodrome

 

[Sweater of AV]

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Now that is a Thick Solid Tight list

 

[Long Dark Blues]

1.) Carpenter
2.) Hooper
3.) Craven

 

[Jackonfire]

Ti West. He did X, Pearl, and MaXXXine, but the 2 movies of his I would put up for consideration are

The Innkeepers

Spoiler

The House of the Devil

Spoiler

 

[Natural Order]

1. Hitchcock
2. Cronenberg
3. Carpenter

 

[HHJ]

I meant to pick Carpenter, but picked Argento

oh well Suspiria rules

 

[Prefect]

Johnathan Demme probably would be on this list if he didn't just one shot horror with Silence of the Lambs.

Ari Aster should be on this list with Midsommar and Hereditary.

Shamalamadingdong should be on the list with The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village.

Jordan Peele probably should be as well with Get Out and Nope.

That all said, I think horror is an incredibly hard genre to make a career out of and not be seen as using the same tricks over and over. Wes Craven went around this by basically making meta The New Nightmare and Scream based on past works. I would say that Carpenter and Wes Craven are kind of the guys when it comes to long careers making horror movies. George Romero is probably third.

 

[Thai Domi]

Carpenter, with Romero a close second

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Shamalamadingdong should be on the list with The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village.

Jordan Peele probably should be as well with Get Out and Nope.

1. Sixth Sense & Signs are not horrors according to imdb

2. Nope

 

[SmoothPies]

Ari Aster belongs on the list as well for Hereditary and Midsommar

Either way though I vote Hitchcock here

 

[revoltub]

Shame Cronenberg didn't catch a vote. I almost voted for him. I think Fly might be my favorite horror film on this list, but videdrome is a clear step below Halloween and Thing

 

[Mikeydontgiva]

Craven
Hooper
Wan

 

[ufcfan4]

Shame Cronenberg didn't catch a vote. I almost voted for him. I think Fly might be my favorite horror film on this list, but videdrome is a clear step below Halloween and Thing

If the Dead Zone counts as a horror movie- idk might be more thriller but it’s horror adjacent and has horror elements- I’d sub that in for Videodrome and would seriously consider voting for him on those two.

That said- tough to beat Carpenter or Hitch for me in this category. Psycho is an all-timer and The Birds is pretty great. But Halloween and The Thing as a tandem probably beat it.

Crazy thing too is Carpenter also has The Fog which is also a horror classic in my opinion.

 

[the ambush]

Shamalamadingdong should be on the list with The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village.

Shyamalan struck all of the right notes with The Sixth Sense and Signs

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Addendum:

Tod Browning.

Dracula(1931)
Freaks(1932)

 

[revoltub]

If the Dead Zone counts as a horror movie- idk might be more thriller but it’s horror adjacent and has horror elements- I’d sub that in for Videodrome and would seriously consider voting for him on those two.

That said- tough to beat Carpenter or Hitch for me in this category. Psycho is an all-timer and The Birds is pretty great. But Halloween and The Thing as a tandem probably beat it.

Crazy thing too is Carpenter also has The Fog which is also a horror classic in my opinion.

I think scanners could have been an interesting sub for videodrome too, though not sure if that counts as horror. Haven't seen deasdzone so not sure on that one. Just know the basic story from the show that was on.

I think Shumacher could have been on this list too with stuff like Lost Boys, Flatliners, and 8mm.

 

[Barney Gumble]

halloween is one my favs but i gotta give it to hitchcock just for the resume.

 

[Kardashians]

Honestly, solid list, though agree Ari should be on here too. Anyways, not voting on this one because I love damn near all of these. You made a thread that was too good I guess lol.

 

[newcastleman]

I like Brian De Palma for Carrie and Dressed to Kill.