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

  • in addition to the source material, the sound design and music and art direction for Annihilation was firing on all cylinders.

    i still find myself haunted by scenes from that movie, but in like a cerebral level.

    Hereditary just plain scared the fuck outta me. the whole movie, every scene gave me the creeps, and by the end it had risen to some kind of fascinated hysteria.