10 Directors Who Need To Make A Horror Movie

5. Ang Lee

This is my wild card entry.

Lee is a powerful director with a slew of well-deserved awards and nominations for his beautiful cinematography and bringing his characters to light in a deeply moving way. He's far more of a humanist than I think the majority of horror filmmakers. It's not a trait associated with a genre full of slasher films, blood-thirty vampires and supernatural beings, to name a few.

But I truly think that if Lee were to access the darker, more pessimistic area of his mind he'd produce material scarier than most. Lee may be a humanist, but his stories address the same emotions that horror movies do; he just takes the sunnier route. And let's not forget the emotionally lost and confused characters that made up The Ice Storm - not exactly the happiest movie to watch. Brokeback Mountain wasn't all that cheerful, either.

What resonates about these films is their emotional depth. Lee pulls out those characters' feelings in a fierce way. Can you imagine following the emotions of a protagonist in a movie which addresses, say, psychological un-reality? Or a classic ghost story? I'd trust Lee to create a story of horror conventions that would cut right to the core.