10 Horror Movie Directors That Quit The Genre – WhatCulture

Some filmmakers start out in the horror genre becauseits a cheap and easy-to-produce form of film which lives anddies not by its grand scale and ambitious vision, but more by one easy-to-measure metric: Was it scary, though?

Some stay there for good, carving out a gory nichewith a dull machete to become legends of the genre. Shout outthe late, great Wes Craven, whose string of hits like Last House on the Left, ANightmare on Elm Street, and the Scream series are a testament to the diverserange of styles and tones available to directors within the genre.

However some directors use horror as a springboardfor bigger (read: more conventional) aspirations, taking their gritty smallbudget successes, stripping the gore, and helming family friendly blockbustersfor the rest of their days. It would be hard to convince a cinemagoer leaving the gruellingexperience in terror that was The Evil Dead that its creator would go on tohelm a trio of Spider-man flicks, but nonetheless Sam Raimi managed to moveinto the mainstream with ease.

The directors who made this list are a diverse bunch, with some beginning in horror and moving on later in their career whilst others began in less edgy territory, had a triumphant outing in horror, and then returned to mainstream comfort. But what they all have in common is each of these ten directors quit the horror genre after helming a classic apiece.

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