10 Great Directors Who Keep Making Terrible Movies

This one feels a little mean, as it appears the director in question may have retied from filmmaking.

But that's no excuse to leave the legendary creator of Suspiria off this list when he's one of the most infamous cases of a talented director who can't stop making awful movies.

This horror icon had what has to be acknowledged as one of the genre's most impressive streaks ever between the seventies and nineties. For those decades, everything he released was another hallucinatory nightmare which disregarded logic in favour of sheer terror and succeeded as a result.

Those searching for genre classics could just cue up a string of Tenebre, Inferno, Phenomena, Opera...

And then somehow end up seeing one of the director's post 2000 films and wonder when he transitioned into comedy.

Argento ended an extraordinary career on a flat note with the trio of flops Mother of Tears, Giallo, and Dracula 2012, a disastrous triumvirate which grew less embarrassing but more boring as it continued. Sure, Mother of Tears may be laughably over-the-top, but at least it's worth a watch, which is more than can be said for the sleepy Giallo.