[Editor’s note: The following list was originally published October 15, 2019 and has been updated with new entries multiple times since.]Whether you’re looking for a scary movie to watch on Halloween or conjuring up the creeps some other time of year, there’s no better way to score top-tier recommendations than to ask other movie-lovers about their all-time favorite fright fests.
And no one knows these sorts of movies better than the filmmakers who carefully spin their personal nightmares into public entertainment.
So why not take a suggestion from one of the best directors working today and/or a master of the horror genre?Combing through scads of reporting — from our own stories and others’ — IndieWire has rounded up 51 filmmakers discussing the horror movies they love, including Eli Roth on “Creepshow” Guillermo del Toro on “Eyes Without a Face,” Martin Scorsese on “The Innocents,” Ari Aster on “Kwaidan,” Steven Spielberg on “The Shining,” Jennifer Kent on “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” Jordan Peele on “Misery,” Greta Gerwig on “The 39 Steps,
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