Who is your favorite director?

[Caleb Goodwin]

Mine is Argento with close seconds being handed to Mario Bava ,Romero, and Cronenburg. Who is your favorite director?

[Scott W. Davis]

Back in my college days, I would have had no problem listing these. It was also before my horror fondness turned into obsession. I would have listed Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Of course, that was before Coppola started making pieces of shit like JACK And as for Olver - well I liked U-TURN and ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, but they could have both been better with a little reigning in.

I would still list Stone though and probably Scorsese. David Lynch has to be up there. Recently, I've become a huge admirer of Akira Kurosawa.

As for horror, I'm still thrilled with the work of Argento, John Carpenter and David Cronenberg more than anything. I also have to give tons of props to Takashi Miike. He's doing some of the most exciting, innovative work in cinema. Everything he does feels completely different than the last film and what's more, he's incredibly damn prolific. I am also very fond of Jess Franco - an artist who really grows on you. Jean Rollin is an artist of rare beauty.

As for the classics, Val Lewton and Mario Bava are towards the top innovators for me.

Damn, I got all excited just writing about that. B)

[Alucard]

My fav, directors are romero, carpenter and...... ........some others, just can't remeber atm :P

Originally posted by Scott W. Davis@Dec 9 2003, 10:12 AM
I also have to give tons of props to Takashi Miike. He's doing some of the most exciting, innovative work in cinema. Everything he does feels completely different than the last film and what's more, he's incredibly damn prolific. I am also very fond of Jess Franco - an artist who really grows on you. Jean Rollin is an artist of rare beauty.

As for the classics, Val Lewton and Mario Bava are towards the top innovators for me.

Damn, I got all excited just writing about that. B)

I havent seen enough of Miike's work to list him, but what I have seen is amazing and without a doubt the most pioneering and sick work(sick is a good thing ) in horror at this time. The same goes for Jean Rollin. What I have seen of Rollin's work is outstanding. As of right now I have only seen Grapes of Death, Night of the Hunted, and Living Dead Girl. I have to see more before I will up him to the top, but what I have seen is superb. In short I do agree with you. I just havent seen enough to list them as "best" yet.

[Caleb Goodwin]

Ok I get the idiot award for the day. The above post is me. Forgot to log in

[Pepper06Rocks]

So far my favorite director(s) have got to be Rob Zombie. The movie he did was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just Loved it

[shadow]

I really can't choose just one. Hitchcock, Craven, Carpenter and many more have brought alot to the Horror world.

But if I had to choose one....it would be Carpenter. The man who brought us the legendary tale of Halloween, and the music score of a lifetime.

[jester21]

Hitchcock, Argento, Jackson, Gordon, Barker, Romero, Cronenberg, to name a few.

[Supercool]

Miike Takeshi is just amazing, and Ive yet to be dissapointed by a film of his. Just amazing.

Ive enjoyed what Ive seen from the Pang brothers. They Eye was extremely well directed, as was Bangkok Dangerous. I just got Bangkok Haunted this morning aswell.

Hideo Nakata is great, Ringu is grand, and I realy enjoyed Dark Water.

I love Cronenberg. His stuff is simply awesome. He puts out consistantly interesting stuff. And his latest (?) Spider was great aswell.

Jan Svankmajor is great, I think Little Otik definately passes as horror :D and his short films, and stuff like Alice is brilliant.

Theres proberly more, but I'll stray far away from horror if I talk about all my favourates.

[Keederdag]

Capenter; without hesitation. I truly dig everything he's ever done. I dont think I can say that about any other director.

[Scott W. Davis]

Originally posted by Keederdag@Dec 13 2003, 06:34 PM
Capenter; without hesitation. I truly dig everything he's ever done. I dont think I can say that about any other director.

Me too. True, I wasn't thrilled with MEMOIRS, but it was allright.

And thank God I'm not the only one in the world who loves GHOSTS OF MARS! B)

[Supercool]

Originally posted by Scott W. Davis+Dec 13 2003, 09:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Scott W. Davis @ Dec 13 2003, 09:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Keederdag@Dec 13 2003, 06:34 PM
Capenter; without hesitation. I truly dig everything he's ever done. I dont think I can say that about any other director.

Me too. True, I wasn't thrilled with MEMOIRS, but it was allright.

And thank God I'm not the only one in the world who loves GHOSTS OF MARS! B) [/b][/quote]
Ive only seen it once, but I realy enjoyed Ghosts Of Mars

[DevilMan]

Miike Takeshi is just amazing, and Ive yet to be dissapointed by a film of his. Just amazing.

Then by all means, SUPERCOOL, do yourself a favor and DON'T watch GOZU. I had the same thoughts about TAKASHI MIIKE before seeing that flick. Even though the ending is certainly "Out There", the entire movie plodded along soooo slowly and heavy handed that it nearly put me to sleep.



-Steve

[DevilMan]

My favs include (not really in any particular order)...

1. TAKASHI MIIKE with AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER, DEAD OR ALIVE, FUDOH, and VISITOR Q.

2. DAVID FINCHER with THE GAME, SEVEN, FIGHT CLUB, and PANIC ROOM. We'll forgive him for ALIEN 3.

3. LUC BESSON with LEON THE PROFESSIONAL, LA FEMME NIKITA, THE FIFTH ELEMENT, THE MESSENGER: JOAN OF ARC, and WASABI.

4. DAVID CRONENBERG with NAKED LUNCH (I just got the CRITERION DVD), DEAD RINGERS, and VIDEODROME.

5. LUCIO FULCI with ZOMBI, GATES OF HELL, and THE BEYOND.

6. PETER JACKSON with his non-Hollywood works like MEET THE FEEBLES, DEAD ALIVE, and BAD TASTE. I haven't seen HEAVENLY CREATURES yet.

7. JOHN WOO if only for THE KILLER and HARDBOILED. He never needs to do anything else.

8. Kaiju film master SHOSUKE KANEKO with GAMERA 3 and GODZILLA GMK.

9. One hit wonders like LUCKY MCKEE with MAY, DANNY BOYLE with 28 DAYS LATER, STEPHEN CHOW with SHAOLIN SOCCER, and ROB ZOMBIE with HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES.

10. STEVEN SPIELBERG with his epic war flicks, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and BAND OF BROTHERS. They are the measuring stick for ALL war movies to come.

11. KINJI FUKASAKU for bringing my favorite movie to film reality, BATTLE ROYALE.

12. ANDREW LAU with THE STORMRIDERS, THE DUEL, A MAN CALLED HERO, and INFERNAL AFFAIRS.

13. JOHNNIE TO with FULLTIME KILLER, THE MISSION, RUNNING OUT OF TIME, and LOVE ON A DIET.

I know I'm forgetting some but these come to mind first.

-Steve

[Keederdag]

Originally posted by Supercool+Dec 14 2003, 12:18 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Supercool @ Dec 14 2003, 12:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Me too. True, I wasn't thrilled with MEMOIRS, but it was allright.

And thank God I'm not the only one in the world who loves GHOSTS OF MARS! B)

Ive only seen it once, but I realy enjoyed Ghosts Of Mars [/b][/quote]
Ghost's was a remake of Precinct No? I loved Precinct; Ghost's was very cool, but one of my least favorite Carpenter flicks.