Directors Who Lost Their Groove

[RCMerchant]

...Like Wes Craven. After LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) he lost it.
Tobe Hopper. EATEN ALIVE was his last orginal film.
Tarintino- f**k, man.

[Alex]

Carpenter's last great film to me was In The Mouth of Madness.

[Trevor]

...Like Wes Craven. After LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) he lost it.
Tobe Hopper. EATEN ALIVE was his last orginal film.
Tarintino- f**k, man.

Tobe directed The Mangler in South Africa: I couldn't believe it was the same director. 

[RCMerchant]

Carpenter's last great film to me was In The Mouth of Madness.

And before that he sucked after the THING (1982). Wait- I liked PRINCE OF DARKNESS! In a bad movie way!
THEY LIVE (1988) was fun, but not a scary movie.

[Alex]

Carpenter's last great film to me was In The Mouth of Madness.

And before that he sucked after the THING (1982). Wait- I liked PRINCE OF DARKNESS! In a bad movie way!
THEY LIVE (1988) was fun, but not a scary movie.

I also liked Big Trouble in Little China Town.

[claws]

Craven did two iconic horror movies after LHOTL. I would rank his films like this (never seen Music from the Heart):

1. Scream (1996) (A+)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (A+)
3. Red Eye (2005) (B+)
4. The People Under the Stairs (1991) (B)
5. New Nightmare (1994) (B)
6. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) (B)
7. Scream 2 (1997) (B)
8. The Hills Have Eyes (1977) (B)
9. Scream 4 (2011) (B-)
10. The Last House on the Left (1972) (C+)
11. Scream 3 (2000) (C-)
12. Deadly Blessing (1981) (C-)
13. Shocker (1989) (C-)
14. Deadly Friend (1986) (C-)

The Bad Movies of Wes Craven

15. Summer of Fear (1978 TV Movie) (D+)
16. Swamp Thing (1982) (D+)
17. Invitation to Hell (1984 TV Movie) (D)
18. Cursed (2005) (D-)
19. My Soul to Take (2010) (F)
20. Night Visions (1990 TV Movie) (F)
21. Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) (F)
22. Chiller (1985 TV Movie) (F)
23. The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984) (F)

Tobe Hooper had its moments

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) (A+)
2. Poltergeist (1982) (A+)
3. Billy Idol: Dancing with Myself (1983 Music Video) (A)
4. Salem's Lot (1979) (A-)
5. Lifeforce (1985) (B-)
6. The Funhouse (1981) (C+)
7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) (C-)
8. Eaten Alive (1976) (C-)
9. Invaders from Mars (1986) (C-)

The Bad Movies of Tobe Hooper

10. Toolbox Murders (2004) (D+)
11. The Apartment Complex (1999 TV Movie) (D+)
12. Masters of Horror - Episode: The Damned Thing (2006) (D)
13. Masters of Horror - Episode: Dance of the Dead (2005) (D-)
14. I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990 TV Movie) (D-)
15. Spontaneous Combustion (1989) (F)
16. Djinn (2013) (F)
17. The Mangler (1995) (F)
18. Mortuary (2005) (F)
19. Crocodile (2000 Video) (F)
20. Night Terrors (1993) (F)

[RCMerchant]

^ as far as Wes Craven goes- I forgot the HILLS HAVE EYES (1977). I never cared for the Freddy movies.

[claws]

Looking at John Carpenters output I'd say he did quite well for the most part

1. The Thing (1982) (A+)
2. Halloween (1978) (A+)
3. Masters of Horror - Episode: John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns (2005) (A+)
4. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) (A+)
5. They Live (1988) (A+)
6. Big Trouble in Little China (1986) (A+)
7. Escape from New York (1981) (A+)
8. In the Mouth of Madness (1994) (A+)
9. Starman (1984) (A)
10. Elvis (1979 TV Movie) (A)
11. The Fog (1980) (A-)
12. Christine (1983) (A-)
13. Prince of Darkness (1987) (B+)
14. Someone's Watching Me! (1978 TV Movie) (B+)
15. Dark Star (1974) (B-)
16. Vampires (1998) (B-)
17. Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) (C+)
18. Escape from L.A. (1996) (C)
19. Village of the Damned (1995) (C)
20. Masters of Horror - Episode: Pro-Life (2006) (C)
21. The Ward (2010) (C-)

The Bad Movie of John Carpenter

22. Ghosts of Mars (2001) (D+)

[Trevor]

I think Steven Spielberg's last film releases like  West Side Story, The Pist and a few others haven't been what people normally expect from him. The Fabelmans was OK though.

[Alex]

Uwe Boll. He really should have stuck to video game adaptations. 

[Gabriel Knight]

Christopher Nolan. The guy became enamored of his own style. Movies like INTERSTELLAR , INCEPTION, and THE PRESTIGE are a pretentious mess with way too many running time and budget on their hands, and have pointless scenes just to make it more complicated.

When I watch those I have a hard time believing they're from the same guy who did MEMENTO, one of my all-time favorites.

[Trevor]

Uwe Boll. He really should have stuck to video game adaptations. 

You should watch Darfur and 1968 Tunnel Rats, both made here. The man does have some talent as a filmmaker.

[bob]

the last Peter Jackson directed film that was good was The Frighteners (1996)

[Trevor]

In South African terms, Neil Blomkamp and Gavin Hood.

[Zapranoth]

M Knight Shamalamadingdong.   After, of course, The Sixth Sense.