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Out of these three modern horror directors, who is your favourite?

posted 7 years ago by Klop_Gob
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- James Wan (director of Saw, Dead Silence, The Conjuring 1 + 2 and Insidious 1 + 2)
- Oren Peli (director of Paranormal Activity and Area 51)
- Rob Zombie (director of House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, The Lords of Salem and the Halloween I + II remakes).

I very much enjoy all of their work but I find James Wan to be the most talented and consistent. However Rob Zombie has made my favourite Horror film out of the above-mentioned films and that is The Lords of Salem which I found to be quite brilliant indeed.

He is not coming back. He has forgotten me.

[–] Lobo_Man 7 years ago

They all suck.

Yoo Ha and Robert Eggers are the best right now.

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[–] Jay96 7 years ago

Eggers has best potential. Only saw PA from Peli and that one is great

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[–] BarneyRubbleNLittleChina 7 years ago

 kinda tough picks

10 years ago i would have said that Rob Zombie was my favorite, and even though i thought Saw was just OK, i really liked Insidious and its sequels. And i am a sucker for Paranormal Activity flicks as well, but those are just too easy to produce.

I'll go with James Wan. For now ...

[–] Klop_Gob 7 years ago

I also like how Oren Peli also produced the Insidious films and The Lord of Salem. He's a common name in Horror right now.

He is not coming back. He has forgotten me.

[–] roger-494 7 years ago

Rob Zombie... legend!

Creepiest Kid in a Horror Movie...

http://www.voote.com/app.html#!/poll/12227

Damien (The Omen)... hands down!

[–] comicman117 7 years ago

Wan, I couldn't care less about the other two.

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[–] Rooney_Mara_Lover 7 years ago

Rob Zombie

[–] Good_Will_Harding 7 years ago

Kind of lukewarm on all three, but James Wan is probably the most consistent in his continued production of entertaining, but safe and formulaic genre fare - which I guess makes him the Marvel Studios of modern horror, and also explains his continued success. Zombie would be more interesting if he wasn't such a godawful writer, and Peli had one hit that he's failed to live up to since.

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