10 Best Horror Movies By Non-Horror Directors

By Joe Sippy /

6. What Lies Beneath - Robert Zemeckis

Many of the directors on this list are genre-hoppers, so it isn€™t so surprising that they would take a crack at horror. While Robert Zemeckis isn€™t quite confined to one particular genre, he is probably the candidate for €œleast likely to make a horror.€ His best-known works are fun, zany, endearing movies that are generally well-suited for the whole family: Back To The Future, Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, etc. More recently, he took a decidedly unfortunate turn into the uncanny valley of motion capture animation, directing The Polar Express, Beowulf, and others less noteworthy (the characters€™ dead eyes are the closest he€™s come to horror since). Smack in the middle of his career, however, Zemeckis took a left turn and directed What Lies Beneath. This movie is not zany or endearing or wholesome, it€™s just terrifying. Michelle Pfieffer plays a housewife dealing with a vengeful ghost (as you do) but she€™s riddled with doubt as to whether or not she€™s just losing her mind. Harrison Ford is in peak form as a respectable professor/husband and the whole thing was written by Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson!). It will make you never want to get into a bathtub again - Roger Rabbit this ain€™t.