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1
Mark Pellington • Starring: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Debra Messing
Psychological Sci-Fi • Psychological Thriller • Science Fiction
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2
Tommy Wirkola • Starring: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner
Comedy • Foreign Language Film • Horror Comedy
3
Jack Clayton • Starring: Jason Robards, Diane Ladd, Shawn Carson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Horror
4
José Ramón Larraz • Starring: Michael Byrne, Anulka Dziubinska, Marianne Morris
Horror • Monster Film • Sex Horror
5
Mario Bava • Starring: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso
Foreign Language Film • Giallo • Horror
6
Philippe Mora • Starring: Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens
7
Adrian Lyne • Starring: Tim Robbins, Ving Rhames, Elizabeth Peña
Drama • Horror • Mindbender
8
Jim Mickle • Starring: Danielle Harris, Connor Paolo, Nick Damici
Action Thriller • Action • Horror
9
Charles B. Pierce • Starring: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime
10
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
11
Jorge Grau • Starring: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy
Horror • Monster Film • Sci-Fi Horror
12
Quentin Dupieux • Starring: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Roxane Mesquida
Absurd Comedy • Black Comedy • Horror
13
David Fincher • Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Paul McGann
Action • Body Horror • Horror
14
J.T. Petty • Starring: Carol J. Clover, Debbie D, Freddie Dingo
Culture and Society • Documentary • Horror
15
Michele Soavi • Starring: Mickey Knox, Rupert Everett, Francois Hadji-Lazaro
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Foreign Language Film
16
William Friedkin • Starring: Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd
Based-on-Theatre • Body Horror • Drama
17
György Pálfi • Starring: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Piroska Molnár
Anthology Film • Black Comedy • Body Horror
18
Bruce A. Evans • Starring: Kevin Costner, Dane Cook, William Hurt
Police Detective Film • Psychological Thriller • Serial Killer Film
19
Paul W.S. Anderson • Starring: Richard T. Jones, Joely Richardson, Laurence Fishburne
Horror • Sci-Fi Horror • Science Fiction
20
Victor Halperin • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn
Horror • Monster Film • Romance
21
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer • Starring: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Anthology Film • British Noir • Film Noir
22
Don Coscarelli • Starring: James LeGros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm
Horror • Road Movie • Supernatural Horror
23
Neil Marshall • Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby
Horror • Monster Film • Werewolf Film
24
William Peter Blatty • Starring: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mystery
25
Herk Harvey • Starring: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger
Gothic Film • Horror • Psychological Horror
26
Tony Maylam • Starring: Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Jason Alexander
Horror • Slasher Film
27
John D. Hancock • Starring: Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor
Ghost Film • Haunted House Film • Horror
28
Tom Tykwer • Starring: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Period Film • Psychological Thriller • Serial Killer Film
29
Scott Glosserman • Starring: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein
Black Comedy • Horror Comedy • Horror
30
Don Sharp • Starring: Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, Ann Michelle
Biker Film • Horror • Supernatural Horror
31
Eli Craig • Starring: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden
Black Comedy • Canuxploitation • Comedy of Errors
32
Richard Blackburn • Starring: Lesley Taplin, Cheryl Smith, William Whitton
Coming-of-Age • Gothic Film • Horror
33
Michele Soavi • Starring: David Brandon, Barbara Cupisti, Domenico Fiore
34
Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoushi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
35
Jack Clayton • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Martin Stephens
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • British New Wave • Ghost Film
36
James Gunn • Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker
Body Horror • Horror Comedy • Horror
37
William Castle • Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Drama • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
38
Kim Chapiron • Starring: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Roxane Mesquida
39
Michael Winner • Starring: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam
40
Larry Cohen • Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
41
Álex de la Iglesia • Starring: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross
Black Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
42
Higuchinsky • Starring: Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga • Body Horror
43
Ben Wheatley • Starring: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley
Folk Horror • Hitman / Assassin Film • Horror
44
Ngai Choi Lam • Starring: Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Comics
45
Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
Folk Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
46
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador • Starring: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
47
Gerald Kargl • Starring: Erwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither, Edith Rosset
48
Stuart Gordon • Starring: William H. Macy, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Psychological Drama
49
Eric Red • Starring: Jeff Fahey, Brad Dourif, Lindsay Duncan
Body Horror • Horror • Slasher Film
50
Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson
Crime Thriller • Crime • New Hollywood
51
Jonathan King • Starring: Nathan Meister, Peter Feeney, Danielle Mason
Comedy • Horror Comedy • Horror
52
Russell Mulcahy • Starring: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Chris Haywood
Australian New Wave • Exploitation Film • Horror
53
Tommy Lee Wallace • Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy
Cyborg / Android / Robot • Horror • Mystery
54
John Fawcett • Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche
Canuxploitation • Coming-of-Age • Feminist Film
55
Damiano Damiani • Starring: Jack Magner, James Olson, Burt Young
Haunted House Film • Horror • Religious Horror
56
Lamberto Bava • Starring: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny
Horror • Monster Film • Splatter Film
57
Pascal Laugier • Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
Foreign Language Film • Horror • New French Extremism
58
André Øvredal • Starring: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Tomas Alf Larsen
Adventure • Fantasy Adventure • Fantasy
59
John Carpenter • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Apocalyptic Film • Horror • Religious Horror
60
Greg Mclean • Starring: Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington
Horror • Natural Horror • Ozploitation
61
Tobe Hooper • Starring: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Alien Invasion Films • Apocalyptic Film • Horror
62
Michael Reeves • Starring: Ian Ogilvy, Vincent Price, Robert Russell
Costume Horror • Folk Horror • Gothic Film
63
Peter Weir • Starring: John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Kevin Miles
Australian New Wave • Black Comedy • Carsploitation
64
Gary Sherman • Starring: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson
Horror • Monster Film • Supernatural Horror
65
Juan López Moctezuma • Starring: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero
Exploitation Film • Horror • Religious Horror
66
Ed Hunt • Starring: Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown
67
Richard Ciupka • Starring: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson
Canuxploitation • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
68
Simon Rumley • Starring: Noah Taylor, Marc Senter, Amanda Fuller
Drama • Psychological Drama • Psychological Thriller
69
Chuck Russell • Starring: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch
Alien Invasion Films • Body Horror • Horror
70
Lewis Teague • Starring: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
Horror • Monster Film • Natural Horror
71
Brian Clemens • Starring: Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane Briant
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
72
Paul Schrader • Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
Drama • Family Drama • Fantasy
73
Sandor Stern • Starring: David Hewlett, Helene Udy, Terry O'Quinn
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Canuxploitation • Horror
74
Alejandro Amenábar • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston
Ghost Film • Gothic Film • Haunted House Film
75
Richard Franklin • Starring: Hugh Gillin, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia
Horror • Psychological Horror • Psychological Thriller
76
Peter Carter • Starring: Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Canuxploitation
77
Tomas Alfredson • Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age
78
George Sluizer • Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Foreign Language Film • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
79
José Mojica Marins • Starring: José Mojica Marins, Magda Mei, Nivaldo Lima
Foreign Language Film • Horror • Supernatural Horror
80
Michael Dougherty • Starring: Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker, Leslie Bibb
Black Comedy • Ensemble Film • Horror Comedy
81
Lewis Allen • Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ghost Film
82
Toshiharu Ikeda • Starring: Miyuki Ono, Aya Katsuragi, Hitomi Kobayashi
83
Joe Cornish • Starring: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Horror
84
Peter Medak • Starring: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
Canuxploitation • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
85
Bigas Luna • Starring: Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul
86
John McNaughton • Starring: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
87
Bill Paxton • Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
88
Barbara Peeters • Starring: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow
Exploitation Film • Female-Directed Film • Horror
89
Jacques Tourneur • Starring: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
90
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
91
Sidney J. Furie • Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa
92
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
93
Lucky McKee • Starring: Jeremy Sisto, Nichole M. Hiltz, Angela Bettis
94
Fred Dekker • Starring: Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
Alien Invasion Films • Body Horror • Comedy
95
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
96
Robert Fuest • Starring: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North
Black Comedy • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
97
Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film • Gothic Film
98
Sean Byrne • Starring: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton
Horror • Ozploitation • Sadistic Horror
99
Richard Franklin • Starring: Grant Page, Thaddeus Smith, Stacy Keach
Australian New Wave • Carsploitation • Exploitation Film
100
Géla Babluani • Starring: George Babluani, Aurélien Recoing, Pascal Bongard
Foreign Language Film • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
101
Jee-woon Kim • Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Gook-hwan Jeon
102
Jack Starrett • Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit
Action Thriller • Action • Carsploitation
103
Gary Sherman • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
Cannibal Film • Horror • Mystery
104
Michael Powell • Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Psychological Thriller
105
Jack Sholder • Starring: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Clu Gulager
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Chase Movie
106
Siu-Tung Ching • Starring: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Ma Wu
Action Comedy • Action • Adventure Comedy
107
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi • Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yôko Minamida
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
108
Jack Hill • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
Black Comedy • Gothic Film • Horror Comedy
109
Georges Franju • Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
Body Horror • Drama • Foreign Language Film
110
Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Fantasy
111
Pier Paolo Pasolini • Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Based-on-18th-Century-Literature • Drama • Exploitation Film
112
Kaneto Shindô • Starring: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Costume Horror • Drama • Folk Horror
113
Henri-Georges Clouzot • Starring: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Foreign Language Film
114
Ti West • Starring: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov
115
Sion Sono • Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Tamao Sato
Foreign Language Film • Horror • Mystery
116
Jack Arnold • Starring: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent
117
Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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