An Outsider's Perspective on Horror
By: Scout
This is an attempt to look at horror from a different angle. This is a list of horror films directed by people who only ever took one stab at the genre. The guidelines are simple: their contribution can’t have been their first film and they can’t have tried it more than once. I hope to examine the line where art and horror meet and see what our most respected auteurs get up to when given license to draw blood. TV and/or short films do not count.
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01Nicolas Roeg
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02Mary Harron
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03Nagisa Ôshima
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04Henri-Georges Clouzot
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05Jaromil Jireš
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06Georges Franju
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07Michael Powell
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08Stanley Kubrick
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09Jonathan Demme
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10Bong Joon-ho
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11Masaki Kobayashi
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12Bruce McDonald
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13Jennifer Chambers Lynch
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14John Maybury
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15Claire Denis
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16Tomas Alfredson
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17Philip Kaufman
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18Richard Donner
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19Kenneth Branagh
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20Christian Nyby
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21Gore Verbinski
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22Antonia Bird
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23Frank Darabont
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24Joe Johnston
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25Carl Theodor Dreyer
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26Danny Boyle
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27Jean Renoir
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28Roger Vadim
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29Ingmar Bergman
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30Gus Van Sant
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31Werner Herzog
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32Pere Portabella
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33Kathryn Bigelow
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34Darren Aronofsky
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35Mike Nichols
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36Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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37Karyn Kusama
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38Quentin Tarantino
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39Breck Eisner
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40Rouben Mamoulian
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41Robert Mulligan
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42Joe Swanberg
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43Julie Delpy
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44Joseph Losey