Adam Rifkin on 16 Candles

Credits include: Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Small Soldiers, Beverly Hills Cop III and The Burbs

An independent maverick who got his start in studio-based television, he is best known for inventive low-budget horror films that combine scathing social commentary with the requisite scares and occasional laughs.

Credits include: Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm and John Dies at the End

Eli Raphael Roth is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is part of a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack, because of their association and their focus on the horror genre. Roth is known for making violent, low-budget horror films and for bringing back the R rating to horror movies at a time when studios were only producing PG-13. Roth is an award-winning actor... (Wikpedia)

With his true-to-life cynical and self-absorbed characters and all-too-true social themes, LaBute has firmly established himself as an unforgiving judge of the ugliest side of human nature.

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the TV series Spaced, and for directing the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. He is also the co-writer of the upcoming Steven Spielberg film The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn... (Wikpedia)

Credits include: Four Rooms, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, American Grindhouse and Gas, Food Lodging

John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies, his horror films, and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson...(wikipedia)

Credits include: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Re-Animator and From Beyond