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My top Ten Horror Directors

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8.7

Mario Bava

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

Black Sunday (1960)

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)

Black Sabbath (1963)

The Whip and the Body (1963)

Blood and Black Lace (1964)

Planet of the Vampires (1965)

Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)

Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)

Hatchet or the Honeymoon (1970)

Bay of Blood (1971)

Baron Blood (1972)

Lisa and the Devil (1972)

Rabid Dogs (1974)

Shock (1977)

7.8

Jacques Tourneur

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

Cat People (1942)

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

The Leopard Man (1943)

Night of the Demon (1957)

8.2

Kaneto Shindô

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

Onibaba (1964)

Kuroneko (1968)

7.9

James Whale

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

Frankenstein (1931)

The Old Dark House (1932)

The Invisible Man (1933)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

7.7

Terence Fisher

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Dracula (1958)

The Mummy (1959)

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1959)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

The Brides of Dracula (1960)

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

The Gorgon (1964)

Island of Terror (1966)

Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Frankenstein Must be Destroyed (1969)

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973)

8.4

Robert Wiene

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

7.6

Roger Corman

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

The Beast With a Million Eyes (1955)

The Day the World Ended (1955)

It Conquered the World (1956)

Not of This Earth (1957)

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

The Undead (1957)

A Bucket of Blood (1959)

The Wasp Woman (1960)

House of Usher (1960)

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Creature From the Haunted Sea (1961)

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

The Premature Burial (1962)

Tales of Terror (1962)

Tower of London (1962)

The Raven (1963)

The Haunted Palace (1963)

X, The Man With The X-Ray Eyes (1963)

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)

8.8

Paul Leni

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

Waxworks (1924)

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

8.3

Tod Browning

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

The Unknown (1927)

West of Zanzibar (1928)

Dracula (1931)

Freaks (1932)

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

The Devil Doll (1936)

8.2

Dario Argento

INFLUENTIAL WORKS

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)

Cat O'Nine Tails (1971)

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

Deep Red (1975)

Suspiria (1977)

Inferno (1980)

Tenebre (1982)

Phenomena (1985

Opera (1987)

"The Black Cat" From Two Evil Eyes (1990)

Trauma (1993)

The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

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A list of directors who have had a major influence on my sensibilities when it comes to writing and envisioning film projects, along with my tastes in horror films in general. These are also filmmakers who have had a serious impact on the horror genre and its roots, and have, in one form or another, inspired virtually every director working in the genre today.