In no particular order:
Alex “Civil War” Garland: Annihilation (Adapted by), Men
Jordan “MadTV” Peele: Get Out, Nope, Us, Him
Ari “Eddington” Aster: Hereditary, Midsommar
Robert Eggers: The VVitch, The Lighthouse, Nosferatu (Adapted by)
Zach “WKUK” Cregger: Barbarian, Weapons
David “No, not THAT one” Mitchell: It Follows, Under the Silver Lake (probably more of a 70s paranoid thriller than horror)
Osgood “I mispelled it in the image but I’m not fixing it” Perkins: Longlegs, The Monkey (Adapted by)
Julia “Heir to the Cronenberg kingdom” Ducournau: Raw, Titane
Panos “I did it before it was cool” Cosmatos: Beyond the Black Rainbow, Mandy
I really like Peele’s movies. I don’t usually get scared by horror at all, but he seems to know what gives me existential dread. Plus Nope is [Spoilers]
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a good modern take on Jaws, alien and kaiju movies. It made me scared of clouds for a month. Jean Jacket resembles a lot of deep sea creatures I’ve read about in the real world that slowly consume their prey alive, and the thought has always made me uneasy.
I also liked Annihilation, but it helps that it’s loosely based on a pretty good book by Jeff Vandermeer, who does some fun weird fiction (I recommend Borne, which is not in any way related to Jason Borne, but rather a fun distopian biopunk romp about raising an Eldrich abomination.)
Jeff Vandermeers books are what introduced me to China Mieville, a great author (and a leftist). Perdido Street Station is up their as one of my favorite books now.