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As far as name goes, there are big 5 right now:

- James Wan (Stygian, Dream Home, Saw, The Conjuring, Insidious, The curse of La Llorona)

- Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, The Strain, The Devil's Backbone, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark)

- Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us, Candyman)

- Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar)

- Jennifer Kent (Babadook, The Nightingale)

- Andy Muschietti (Mama, It, It: Chapter 2)

 

They elevated horror genre into brown nose and full of style that are welcomed by many more people in turns. 

But the questions remains: which one of these are your favourite and why?

 

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Daylight Jokers

James Wan for the aesthetics.

Jordan Peele for the story.

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I also love Luca Guadagnino's work on Suspiria.

 

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Jose P

Ari Aster and Jordan Peele for sure. Although I would also add Fede Alvarez, who directed the (amazing) Evil Dead remake and Don’t Breathe.

I don’t really consider Guillermo Del Toro a horro director btw. More of a dark fantasy one.

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Spock

Ari Aster :legend:

James Wan is cute

Jordan Peele is SO overhyped

and Muschetti is just kind of generic

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1 hour ago, RAMROD said:

As far as name goes, there are big 5 right now:

- James Wan (Stygian, Dream Home, Saw, The Conjuring, Insidious, The curse of La Llorona)

- Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, The Strain, The Devil's Backbone, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark)

- Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us, Candyman)

- Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar)

- Jennifer Kent (Babadook, The Nightingale)

- Andy Muschietti (Mama, It, It: Chapter 2)

 

They elevated horror genre into brown nose and full of style that are welcomed by many more people in turns. 

But the questions remains: which one of these are your favourite and why?

 

Share your thoughts below

Not all of those movies are directed by those directors though

for me I've always loved James Wan, Jordan Peele is amazing too and Fede Álvarez

my current favourites are Ari Aster and Mike Flanagan

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voidfigure

Guillermo Del Toro is one of my favorite directors ever. 

Ari Aster is great, but a lot of people misunderstand his style

James Wan is a legend (he only produced The Curse of La Llorona and many titles you wrote tho) 

I need to see a couple more films by Jordan Peele to really express an opinion

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voidfigure
17 minutes ago, Defmix100 said:

 

my current favourites are Ari Aster and Mike Flanagan

Thank you for mentioning Flanagan, he's so underrated! 

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Borislshere

Lars Klevberg (Child’s Play 2019). One of the nicest most humble guys I know.

Jordan Peele(get out, us)

Ari Aster

Leigh Whannel

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JazzGa

Thanks for this thread! I've been a big Del Toro fan for years (since Pan's Labyrinth) and I am a growing fan of Peele's directorial work outside his comedy. I thought horror-comedy had to be intentionally B and ironic and campy (think Scary Movie, Scream, old school Tyler Perry etc) but Peele brings clever legitimacy to the genre

I also didn't know a woman directed The Babadook and Hereditary. That's such a rarity, now I am really interested in seeing those movies. 

One modern horror movie that had a huge impact on me was 2015's "The VVitch" directed by Robert Eggers. It didn't scare me so much as fascinate me. I kind of wanted to BE Thomasin, being possessed by the devil and dancing nude in the moonlight seemed like an improvement over being an Amish farm peasant to me!  He made such great stylistic choices. The whole movie was so artistic. It reminded me of David Lynch.

Super excited to watch Eggers' latest effort "The Lighthouse!" 

 

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WhiteWitch

I really wasn’t impressed with Ari Aster or any of A24 studio’s horror films honestly, but I’d say same list but swap Ari for Mike Flanagan. 

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Anderson123

Leigh Whanell and James Wan have really made great horror movies but right now I feel the holy trinity is Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar), Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) and Jennifer Kent (Babadook, Nightingale). 
 

Jordan Peele deserves the success but I feel like the ones I mentioned have made superior films. As for Guillermo Del Toro, I feel like he’s on another level, finally getting some recognition but has been making amazing stuff for more than 20 years. 

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