Lee had numerous parts in film and television throughout the 1950s but didn't achieve stardom until his association with Hammer Film Productions, which started with The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), all co-starring Peter Cushing...

Barbara Steele has 36 credits at Criticker, including: 8½, Shivers, Piranha, Black Sunday and Pit and the Pendulum

Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American film director and writer, perhaps best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the Scream films alongside The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn, Red Eye and My Soul to Take...(Wikipedia)

Brian Yuzna has 22 credits at Criticker, including: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, From Beyond, Society and Bride of Re-Animator

Not only a director, but also writer, editor and composer for his films, John Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his 4 decade carreer, but he is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction. His biggest success is Halloween, the movie that made the serial killer Michael Myers a cult character for horror fans.

Robert Bloch has 30 credits at Criticker, including: Psycho, Psycho, Bates Motel, Asylum and Psycho IV: The Beginning

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into motion pictures, notably the Hellraiser series. (Wikipedia)

Hailing from Rome, Argento is one of Italy's most influential horror directors. His unique style helped to create a new subgenre: 'Giallo', which are films marked by creative, bloody murders and interesting camerawork.

Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. He never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Friedkin became infatuated with Orson Welles after seeing Citizen Kane (1941). He went to work for WGN TV immediately after graduating from high school where he started making documentaries, one of which won the Golden Gate Award at the 1962 San Francisco film festival. In 1965, he moved to Hollywood and immediately started directing TV shows.

Saul Bass has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Phase IV, Why Man Creates, Quest and The Solar Film