11 horror movie directors I like

How can you argue with titles like "House by the Cemetery", "City of the Living Dead"' and "The Beyond"? He directed other genres, too; but he is most remembered for horror these days. At his death had four "video nasties"' to his name.

He also directed "Show Boat", "The Man in the Iron Mask", and "Sinners in Paradise", but he's probably best known for, "Frankenstein", "The Invisible Man", and "The Bride of Frankenstein".

He directed several Lon Chaney films in the silent days, and was to have directed him in "Dracula" before his death. He instead directed Bela Lugosi in his sound debut. He later directed a movie called "Freaks" and two with Lionel Barrymore, "Mark of the Vampire", and "The Devil's Dolls"

His first movie "Last House on the Left" disturbed critics and audiences alike. Later he created Freddy Kruger in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, and the "Scream" series.

Beside sword-and-sandal epics and spaghetti westerns, Bava directed horror movies like "Planet of the Vampires", "Beyond the Door" , and "Black Sunday". Most of his movies have a fantasy bent to them.

He directed the first pairing of Karloff and Lugosi, "The Black Cat", "Bluebeard" with John Carradine, "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll", "The Amazing Transparent Man" and over 150 other movies including, "Detour", one of the greatest film-noir classics. Ulmer could be on his own, a one-man festival. He left the big studios so he could better control his own productions, sometimes taking educational or even movies in other languages to keep working.

He started co-writing spaghetti westerns (including "Once Upon a Time in the West") but his directorial debut "Deep Red", gave him the reputation of an "Italian Hitchcock". Some of his later movies include "Suspiria", "Four Flies on Grey Velvet", "Terror at the Opera", "Tenebrae", and "Inferno".

His first hit, "Halloween", could have been a boogieman in the closet flick, but Michael was indestructible even after absorbing bullets and falling out of a third-story attic window. Later Carpenter hits included "The Fog", "The Thing", and "Halloween II".

Strictly speaking, Sir Alfred was more of a suspense director, but movies like "Psycho", "The Birds", and "Rope" definitely have a place in the horror pantheon.

Roger was pretty much a jack-of-all-trades director with wild teen movies, race-car movies, musicals, and even horror movies to his credit. His horror flicks including, "The Little Shop of Horrors", "Wasp Woman", and Poe adaptations with Vincent Price, "The Raven", "Masque of the Red Death", and "Fall of the House of Usher" are outstanding

Yeah, he directed tons of Abbott and Costello, but I like to think of him as the director of "Ghost of Frankenstein", "House of Dracula" and "The Cat Creeps".