10 Directors Who Need To Make A Horror Movie

2. Paul Thomas Anderson

Slow, precise, controlled, complex, chilling. I don't think I'm alone in assigning these traits to Anderson's phenomenal body of work. He is a truly original and painfully talented auteur, and one of the bests of his generation.

PTA is probably the most studious and intelligent modern filmmaker. He knows his way around convention and takes his own spin on it. All those long, drawn-out, steady, tracking shots and takes? Every frame is put in place for a reason. There's not a hair out of place. He's mastered the basics and tailored them in his vision. As a result, his stories are perhaps the most authentic contemporary stories in recent memory. They're ambitious, and there's so much meat that you can chew for days.

So after tooting this guy's horn to no end, why would he make a good horror movie? His innovation allows for a redefining of the genre. Can you imagine how core-shaking a PTA "descent into madness" story would be? If he stripped down his stories to the bare bones of primal fears, he'd create a masterpiece of horror. Anything is possible in a PTA film: the endless directions his stories go in would provide a brilliant foundation for some truly insightful, powerful, terrifying premises and themes.