Horror Actors, Directors & Filmmakers

John Carpenter and the Architecture of Modern Horror John Carpenter occupies a central position in modern horror and science fiction cinema. Director, screenwriter, producer, co...

Lucio Fulci and the Horror of a World Coming Apart Lucio Fulci occupies a strange and almost unique position in horror cinema. He became internationally famous for images of ext...

Wes Craven and the Horror of Unsafe Places Wes Craven spent much of his career destroying places that were supposed to be safe. A family home could become the site of unimaginab...

Dario Argento and the Terror of Seeing Too Much Dario Argento built much of his cinema around a deceptively simple idea: seeing something does not mean understanding it. Again a...

George A. Romero and the Horror of a Society Eating Itself George A. Romero changed horror cinema by making the collapse of society feel frighteningly ordinary. His dead did not...

Christopher Lee and the Authority of Gothic Horror Christopher Lee became one of horror cinema's defining figures because he could make the supernatural feel authoritative. His ...

David Cronenberg and the Horror of Becoming Something Else David Cronenberg built one of horror cinema's most distinctive bodies of work around a fear more intimate than death: ...

Vincent Price and the Elegance of the Macabre Vincent Price became one of horror cinema's great icons without ever needing to look like a conventional monster. His most effectiv...

Tobe Hooper and the Horror of Places That Should Never Feel Safe Tobe Hooper made horror from environments that seem to have developed their own sickness. A farmhouse filled wit...

Robert Englund and the Face Behind the Nightmare Robert Englund became one of horror cinema's most recognizable figures by doing something unusually difficult: he turned a heavi...

Bruce Campbell and the Horror Hero Who Was Never Meant to Be a Hero Bruce Campbell became one of horror cinema's most enduring cult figures by playing a hero who was never desig...

Brad Dourif and the Horror of the Unstable Mind Brad Dourif became one of horror cinema's most distinctive actors without building his career around a single type of performance...

Roger Corman and the Machinery of Independent Horror Roger Corman changed horror cinema not by building a single franchise or creating one famous monster, but by constructing an...

Linnea Quigley and the Rise of the Modern Scream Queen Linnea Quigley became one of the most recognizable faces of 1980s horror without belonging to a single franchise. Her impo...

Brian Yuzna and the Horror of the Body Without Limits Brian Yuzna built one of the most recognizable careers in modern cult horror around a simple principle: the human body is n...

Stuart Gordon and the Theatre of Flesh Stuart Gordon brought something unusually theatrical to horror cinema. Bodies burst, twisted, dissolved and returned from the dead in his ...

Sam Raimi and the Camera That Became a Monster Sam Raimi changed horror cinema by refusing to let the camera remain a passive observer. In his early films it runs through forest...

Debra Hill and the Architecture Behind Modern American Horror Debra Hill occupies an unusual position in horror history because some of the most famous films associated with her...

Tom Savini and the Physical Reality of Horror Tom Savini changed horror cinema by making violence feel as though it had physical weight. Before computer-generated imagery could ...

Donald Pleasence and the Man Who Looked Into Evil Donald Pleasence possessed one of the most distinctive presences in horror cinema. His small frame, bald head, controlled voice...