Quién lo pregunta es Time Out London, quienes responden, ni más y ni menos que 100 de los cineastas y profesionales más representativos del género rey. Entre ellos, Roger Corman, Frank Darabont ("La Niebla"), Sean Durkin ("Martha, Macy, May, Marlene"), Drew Goddard ("Cabin in th Woods"), Monte Hellman ("Carretera asfaltada en dos direcciones"), Guillermo Del Toro, Tom Six ("The human Centipede"), James Watkins ("Eden Lake"), Ti West ("The Inkeepers"), Ben Wheatly ("Kill List"), Rob Zombie, Simon Pegg, Paco Plaza Clive Barker, Neil Marshall Joe Dante o incluso Alice Cooper o Angel Sala entre muchos otros. ¿La vencedora? "El Exorcista" seguida de cerca por "El Resplandor" y "la Matanza de Texas" ¿Sorpresas? Unas cuantas. Os dejamos con el Top-10 de todos ellos, y por supuesto, el Top-100.
Roger Corman ("The Pit & The Pendulum," "Flesh For Frankenstein")
1. "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" (Robert Wiene, 1920)
2. "Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens" (FW Murnau , 1922)
3. "Psycho" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
4. "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
5. "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979)
6. "The Exorcist" (William Friedkin, 1973)
7. "Les Diaboliques" (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
8. "Rosemary's Baby" (Roman Polanski, 1968)
9. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (Wes Craven, 1984)
10. "Halloween" (John Carpenter, 1978)
Frank Darabont ("Cadena Perpétua", "La Niebla", "The Walking Dead")
1. "The Exorcist" (William Friedkin, 1973)
2. "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979)
3. "The Thing" (John Carpenter, 1982)
4. "The Fly" (David Cronenberg, 1986)
5. "Night of the Living Dead" (George A Romero, 1968)
6. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
7. "Frankenstein" (James Whale, 1931)
8. "The Silence of the Lambs" (Jonathan Demme, 1990)
9. "Se7en" (David Fincher, 1995)
10. "Day of the Dead" (George A Romero, 1985)
Sean Durkin ("Martha Marcy May Marlene")
1. "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
2. "Rosemary's Baby" (Roman Polanski, 1968)
3. "Images" (Robert Altman, 1972)
4. "Black Christmas" (Bob Clark, 1974)
5. "Halloween" (John Carpenter, 1978)
6. "Hour of the Wolf" (Ingmar Bergman, 1967)
7. "The Changeling" (Peter Medak, 1979)
8. "House of The Devil" (Ti West, 2009)
9. "See The Sea" (Francois Ozon, 1997)
10. "Deep End" (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)
Drew Goddard ("The Cabin In The Woods")
1. "The Thing" (John Carpenter, 1982)
2. "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979)
3. "The Evil Dead" (Sam Raimi, 1981)
4. "Dawn of the Dead" (George A Romero, 1978)
5. "The Descent" (Neil Marshall, 2005)
6. "Halloween" (John Carpenter, 1978)
7. "Suspiria" (Dario Argento, 1977)
8. "Hellraiser" (Clive Barker, 1987)
9. "The Strangers" (Bryan Bertino, 2008)
10. "Shaun of the Dead" (Edgar Wright, 2004)
Monte Hellman ("Two-Lane Blacktop")
1. "Don't Look Now" (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
2. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (Don Siegel , 1956)
3. "Frankenstein" (James Whale, 1931)
4. "Dracula" (Tod Browning, 1931)
5. "Dead of Night" (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Deardon, Robert Hamer, 1945)
6. "The Ghost Breakers" (George Marshall, 1945)
7. "The Mummy" (Karl Freund, 1932)
8. "The Picture of Dorian Grey" (Albert Lewin, 1945)
9. "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
10. "Rosemary’s Baby" (Roman Polanski, 1968)
Tom Six ("The Human Centipede: First Sequence")
1. "Saló" (Pier Palo Pasolini, 1975)
2. "Crash" (David Cronenberg, 1996)
3. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
4. "Nekromantik" (Joerg Buttgereit, 1987)
5. "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
6. "Boxing Helena" (Jennifer Lynch, 1993)
7. "Teeth" (Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2007)
8. "Haze" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 2005)
9. "The Exorcist" (William Friedkin, 1973)
10. "The Blair Witch Project" (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, 1999)
Guillermo Del Toro ("El Espinazo del diablo" "El laberinto del fauno")
1. "Bride of Frankenstein" (James Whale, 1935)
2. "Possession" (Andrzej Zulawski , 1981)
3. "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
4. "Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens" (FW Murnau , 1922)
5. "Rosemary's Baby" (Roman Polanski, 1968)
6. "The Innocents" (Jack Clayton, 1961)
7. "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979)
8. "The Night of the Hunter" (Charles Laughton, 1955)
9. "Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages" (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
10. "Freaks" (Tod Browning, 1932)
Neil Marshall ("The Descendent")
1. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
2. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
3. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
4. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981)
5. Braindead (Peter Jackson, 1992)
6. The Fog (John Carpenter, 1979)
7. Deliverance (1972, John Boorman)
8. The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
9. The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976)
10. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)
James Watkins ("Eden Lake", "The Woman In Black")
1. "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979)
2. "Psycho" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
3. "Blue Velvet" (David Lynch, 1986)
4. "Dead Ringers" (David Cronenberg. 1988)
5. "Manhunter" (Michael Mann, 1986)
6. "Jaws" (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
7. "Peeping Tom" (Michael Powell, 1960)
8. "The Tenant" (Roman Polanski, 1976)
9. "The Vanishing" (George Sluizer, 1988)
10. "The Abominable Dr Phibes" (Robert Fuest, 1971)
Ti West ("House Of The Devil," "The Innkeepers")
1. "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
2. "The Exorcist" (William Friedkin, 1973)
3. "Rosemary's Baby" (Roman Polanski, 1968)
4. "Jaws" (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
5. "The Changeling" (Peter Medak, 1979)
6. "Psycho" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
7. "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979)
8. "Night of the Living Dead" (George A Romero, 1968)
9. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
10. "Halloween" (John Carpenter, 1978)
Ben Wheatley ("Kill List")
1. "Come and See" (Elem Klimov, 1985)
2. "Dawn of the Dead" (George A Romero, 1978)
3. "Videodrome" (David Cronenberg, 1982)
4. "The Thing" (John Carpenter, 1982)
5. "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
6. "Scum" (Alan Clark, 1979)
7. "Threads" (Mick Jackson, 1984)
8. "Cannibal Holocaust" (Ruggero Deodato, 1979)
9. "Don't Look Now" (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
10. "Evil Dead II" (Sam Raimi, 1987)
Antonio Campos ("Acné")
1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
2. Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1967)
3. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
4. The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
5. Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)
6. Angel Heart (Alan Parker, 1987)
7. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi , 1964)
8. Ju-on: The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu, 2002)
9. Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky, 2011)
10. The Other (Robert Mulligan, 1972)
Clive Barker ("Hellraiser")
1. Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1979)
2. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
3. Education for Death (Dir unknown, 1943)
4. Ataque de Panico (Fede Alvarez, 2009)
5. A Serbian Film (Srdjan Spasojevic, 2010)
6. Saló (Pier Palo Pasolini, 1975)
7. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
8. High Tension (Alexandre Aja, 2003)
9. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1959)
10. Le Sange des Betes (Georges Franju,1949)
Rob Zombie ("La casa de los 1000 cadáveres")
1. Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1979)
2. Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
3. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
4. Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley, 1923)
6. Dawn of the Dead (George A Romero, 1978)
7. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
8. Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens (FW Murnau , 1922)
9. The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
10. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
Simon Pegg ("Zombies Party")
1. Dawn of the Dead (George A Romero, 1978)
2. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
3. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
5. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
6. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
7. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
8. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
10. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
Joe Dante ("Gremlins")
1. The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
2. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle, 1941)
3. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
4. Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
5. The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, 1945)
6. The Wolf Man (George Waggner, 1941)
7. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
8. Lisa and the Devil (Mario Bava, Alfredo Leone,1974)
9. Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1958)
10. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1959)
Alice Cooper
1. Salem's Lot (Tobe Hooper, 1979)
2. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1976)
3. The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
4. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)
5. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
6. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
7. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
8. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
9. 30 Days Of Night (David Slade, 2007)
10. Silent Hill (Christopher Gans, 2006)
Paco Plaza ("REC 3")
1. Black Sunday (aka The Mask of Satan, Revenge of the Vampire) (1960)
2. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
3. The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976)
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel , 1956)
5. The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
7. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
8. Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987)
9. The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Jorge Grau, 1974)
10. Switchblade Romance (Alexandre Aja, 2003)
Angel Sala (Director del Festival de Sitges)
1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
2. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
3. Kill, Baby… Kill! (aka Operazione Paura, Curse of the Dead) (Mario Bava, 1966)
4. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi , 1964)
5. The Brides of Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1960)
6. Dawn of the Dead (George A Romero, 1978)
7. The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
8. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
9. Who Can Kill a Child? (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, 1976)
10. The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
TOP 100
20. LA PROFECÍA (D. Richard Donner)
19. POSESIÓN INFERNAL (D. Sam Raimi)
18. AUDITION (D. Takashi Miike)
17. THE HAUNTING (D. Robert Wise)
16. UN HOMBRE LOBO AMERICANO EN LONDRES (D. John Landis)
15. CARRIE (D. Brian De Palma)
14. THE INNOCENTS (D. Jack Clayton)
13. LA NOCHE DE LOS MUERTOS VIVIENTES (D. George A. Romero)
12. DON'T LOOK NOW (D. Nicolas Roeg)
11. TIBURÓN (D. Steven Spielberg)
10. AMANECER DE LOS MUERTOS (D. George A. Romero)
9. SUSPIRIA (D. Dario Argento)
8. HALLOWEEN (D. JOhn Carpenter)
7. LA SEMILLA DEL DIABLO (D. Roman Polanski)
6. LA COSA (D. John Carpenter)
5. ALIEN (D. Ridley Scott)
4. PSICOSIS (D. Alfred Hitchcock)
3. LA MATANZA DE TEXAS (D. Tobe Hopper)
2. EL RESPLANDOR (D. Stanley Kubrick)
1. EL EXORCISTA (D. William Friedkin)
DE LA 20 A LA 100 Y TODOS LOS TOPS AQUÍ