Met Halloween in zicht heeft IndieWire een lijst samengesteld met de favoriete horrorfilms van 32 topregisseurs, waaronder genremeesters zoals Robert Eggers (The Witch), Ari Aster (Hereditary), Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead), Andy Muschietti (It) en John Carpenter (The Thing).

Robert Eggers: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)

Josephine Decker: Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)

Guillermo del Toro: Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)

Quentin Tarantino: Audition (Takashi Miike)

Martin Scorsese: The Innocents (Jack Clayton)

Edgar Wright: Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer en Basil Dearde)

David Lowery: Hereditary (Ari Aster)

Ari Aster: Climax (Gaspar Noé)

Jordan Peele: Misery (Rob Reiner)

Jennifer Kent: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)

Luca Guadagnino: The Fly (David Cronenberg)

Sam Raimi: Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)

Anna Biller: Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)

Christopher Nolan: Alien (Ridley Scott)

Andy Muschietti: Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)

James Wan: The Others (Alejandro Amenabar)

Ana Lily Amirpour: Antichrist (Lars von Trier)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4U5rdi9w-U

Bo Burnham: Grave (Julia Ducournau)

Eli Roth: Creepshow (George A. Romero)

Ben Wheatley: Eraserhead (David Lynch)

William Friedkin: Funny Games (Michael Haneke)

James Gunn: Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)

Gaspar Noé: Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iLDtD-wr7Q

John Carpenter: The Exorcist (William Friedkin)

Karyn Kusama: Habit (Larry Fessenden)

Patrick Brice: Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne)

Andre Øvredal: Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)

Tim Burton: The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)

Pedro Almodóvar: Rapture (Iván Zulueta)

Jim Jarmusch: American Psycho (Mary Harron)

Ti West: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

Rob Zombie: 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)

Bron: IndieWire