10 Great Directors Who Keep Making Terrible Movies

This one is breaking a lot of hearts, so this entry will try to be constructive.

After all, the early careers of frequent collaborators writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard made it clear the pair had potential to be cult filmmaking legends. As the director of the pair, Wingard made a mark with the phenomenal indie genre movies You’re Next and The Guest, a duo of efforts which fused razor sharp wit with propulsive pace and a crisp visual palette.

These early efforts were marked by peerless use of small budgets, masterful action and tension, a streak of dark humour and surprisingly smart, incisive satire which made Wingard and Barrett natural successors to the likes of Joe Dante and John Carpenter.

But then they followed them with the bigger budget efforts Blair Witch and Death Note, a pair of remakes which were flat, lifeless, and committed one cardinal sin of filmmaking. Both movies featured plots which were somehow both convoluted and too predictable, proving that a studio just needs to give these two total creative freedom to make their own original project.

Or you know, Godzilla Vs Kong.