Hottest New UK Horror Filmmakers
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Hottest New UK Horror Filmmakers

From veteran Ridley Scott to up-and-comers like Christopher Smith, U.K. horror directors are making some of the freshest fright flicks around. Rank these filmmakers.

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1 Danny Boyle
Boyle's not primarily a horror director, but 28 Days Later rocked the zombie world. 73 103
2 Ridley Scott
One word: Alien. Scott made the best haunted-house space movie of all time. 70 108
3 Edgar Wright
From Shaun of the Dead to Grindhouse's "Don't!" trailer, Wright is never wrong. 51 83
4 Clive Barker
A leading light of horror literature, Barker also unleashed the cenobites in Hellraiser. 41 87
5 Neil Marshall
Dog Soldiers and the Descent put Marshall on the international horror map. 32 80
6 Bernard Rose
Rose directed Candyman, but his masterpiece is the child's-eye-view Paperhouse. 2 56
7 Christopher Smith
Smith balances horror and pitch-black humor in Severance, about a corporate retreat gone wrong. -14 54
8 Michael J. Bassett
Bassett's WWI-era Deathwatch got him on the radar, and anticpation is high for his Robert E. Howard adaptation, Solomon Kane. -21 55
9 Julian Richards
Richards made a splash with the Last Horror Movie, and the buzz surrounding his upcoming Cryptid is hot. -25 47
10 Marcus Adams
Adams has made only one feature, but insiders are buzzing about his upcoming Suffering. -26 48