Best Modern Horror/Fantasy/Sci-Fi Directors

[Toy Ranch]

Mainstream movie-goers flock to "big name" celebrity movies.  For the horror genre though, big names often signal big bore.  Let's face it, if George Clooney is in a horror film, you probably aren't expecting any new ground to be broken.  But directors...  there are some directors who I'm in for anything they do in the horror genre.

John Carpenter
Frank Darabont
George Romero (OK, he's made some kinda stinkers, but I'm still going!)
Takashi Miike
David Cronenberg
Tobe Hooper
Sam Rami

Those guys make a movie in my fave genre, I'm there.

OK, I "stole" some big names, but there are others out there.  Only filmmakers who are still active, or have been active in the last 10 years or so, this is the MODERN movie forum, after all... 

[Creature Features]

Peter Jackson
Guillermo del Toro

[Gillman-Fan]

I'm not a die-hard fan of Eli Roth, Rob Zombie or Alexandre Aja but their names deserve a mention here IMO.

Man, what was the last feature film John Carpenter directed, Ghosts of Mars (2001)?

[Toy Ranch]

I'm not a die-hard fan of Eli Roth, Rob Zombie or Alexandre Aja but their names deserve a mention here IMO.

Man, what was the last feature film John Carpenter directed, Ghosts of Mars (2001)?

I won't go see films because Eli Roth or Rob Zombie directed them.  Actually, I'm liable to skip them for that reason, unless I hear something compelling to cause me to want to see them.  Alexandre Aja I'm always down for.

John Carpenter hasn't directed any feature films that have been released since that one, but The Ward is in post  production and should be out in a bit, and he has a couple others announced.  He's done some Masters of Horror episodes.

[LaettnersLegacy]

Dusk to Dawn was a good movie tho...

for Sci fi

Stephen Spielberg

[coughcool]

Just a few more names for the possible discussion.

Don Coscarelli
Stuart Gordon
Dario Argento
Joe Dante

Honorable mention
John Landis
Lucky McKee
Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino

[BlackLagoon]

I'm suprised no one said Fulci.

Not my cup of tea, but def has a following.

Unless I'm wrong and he was a writer not the director?

[Gillman-Fan]

Fulci hasn't been "active" for some time . . . but if he is, THAT would be something I'd pay to see.

[BlackLagoon]

Fulci hasn't been "active" for some time . . . but if he is, THAT would be something I'd pay to see.

Well between "Zombi" and the average lifespan of many of my Italian relavties---ya never know 

[kklloo]

Neil Marshall
Josh Whedon
Guillermo del Toro
Peter Jackson
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Danny Boyle
Zack Snyder
Tim Burton

[The Cryptkeeper]

John Carpenter (The Thing, Escape From New York, etc.)
Peter Jackson (The Frighteners, Lord Of The Rings trilogy)
Wes Craven (A Nightmare On Elm Street, Scream, etc.)
Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Dreams In The Witch House, etc.)
Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Night Breed, etc.)
Ridley Scott (Legend, Alien)
Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent)
William Malone (House On Haunted Hill, Fair Haired Child, etc.)
Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Devil's Backbone, HellBoy etc.)
Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, etc.)
Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead trilogy, Drag Me To Hell, etc.)
David Cronenberg (The Fly, Scanners, eXistenZ, etc.)
George Romero (Creepshow, Day Of The Dead, etc.)
Christophe Gans (Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Silent Hill)
Zack Snyder (Dawn Of The Dead, 300, etc.)
Alexander Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors, etc.)
Frank Darabont (The Mist)

[long live kong]

Surely George Lucas deserves an honorable mention also, or have you guys still not forgiven him for The Phantom Menace?!  

[The Cryptkeeper]

Surely George Lucas deserves an honorable mention also, or have you guys still not forgiven him for The Phantom Menace?!  

Phantom Menace was crap! NO he doesn't deserve honorable mention, no way!!!

[hammerfan]

Dario Argento
Mario Bava
Cronenberg
Carpenter
Del Toro
Wm Friedkin for the Exorcist

[josezombiekillr]

Peter Jackson
Guillermo del Toro

I'm with you man.

Not that I don't like those other guys as well.