Movies Which Director Has The 2 Best Horror Movies

[I Fusion I]

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

Definitely Argento. I'm not massive on The Thing but i do like it a lot, honorable mention for Cronenberg but they're body-horror films not necessarly "horror" in a pure form.

 

[Brother Numsi]

Hitchcock because he’s the master

Carpenter is next

Craven is a dark horse. Freddy and Ghost Face are part of the iconic Horror Sinister Six:

Freddy
Mike Myers
Jason
Chuckie
Leatherface
Ghost

 

[SKYNET]

shout out to Carpenter who's in the lead and has a solid list of horror beyond Halloween and The Thing

The Fog
Christine
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (producer)
Prince of Darkness (as creepy as either Halloween or Thing)
In the Mouth of Madness

 

[Prefect]

I will throw this one out there because no one talks about it - The Autopsy of Jane Doe. It is a low budget movie with Brian Cox and Emile Hirsh, post choking a producer at a party and stunting his career even though being talented. It is set in one room at a morgue and I don't know what their budget was but it couldn't have been much. It is a legit good horror movie.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Coming into this thread I had Craven on my mind but this is actually super competitive in my opinion. Also, Hooper isn’t getting enough love in these poll results imo.

 

[Roids]

I will throw this one out there because no one talks about it - The Autopsy of Jane Doe. It is a low budget movie with Brian Cox and Emile Hirsh, post choking a producer at a party and stunting his career even though being talented. It is set in one room at a morgue and I don't know what their budget was but it couldn't have been much. It is a legit good horror movie.

Very good one with a brilliant premise. I loved the intrigue and atmosphere. Underrated for sure.

 

[Bullitt68]

I knew Carpenter would be running away with it even before I voted, but I still have to go with Hitchcock. Psycho is just too enormous, too influential, and too incredible, and then throw in The Birds which is also phenomenal...it's just too hard to vote against him. But Carpenter and Craven are both right there, and picking between them is actually even harder for me. Craven was so huge in my childhood, but over time I've come to appreciate Carpenter's filmmaking more. I'd probably give it to Carpenter, but all three boast super impressive and influential work.

 

[Pittie Petey]

I didnt know the same guy made Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Poltergeist, which is legit the scariest movie I ever saw in my life, Hooper gets the vote from me

 

[Blue_Ribbon]

Carpenter hands down. The Thing and Halloween.

 

[Fury]

It's Carpenter for me and you could switch out Halloween for another of his movies without changing that.

I think Hooper and Cronenberg deserve more respect than it seems they get from this poll.... But the question is about best, not who I think deserves more credit for horror movies.

 

[Adamant]

Craven. ANOES and Scream are freaking great.

 

[Streeter]

Carpenter by a large margin and im not even a horror fan.


Hitchcock more suspense than Horror aside from Pycho I always thought. Great tho just not sure hes really horror