10 Great Directors Who Keep Making Terrible Movies

Remember All the Boys Love Mandy Lane? Way back in 2006, before its star Amber Heard was better known for her real life legal woes, this gritty, intense teen horror brought slashers back to their grim eighties heyday.

Stripped of irony and boasting a sunburnt seventies visual palette, the bloody psychological thriller heralded the arrival of a major directorial talent.

Director Jonathan Levine went from strength to strength, with the promising indie wunderkind bringing the same visual style and a newfound heart to stoner comedy of age dramedy The Wackness.

Unfortunately, the director behind 2011’s coarse, poignant dramedy 50/50 is unrecognizable as the hack behind recent corny comedies Snatched and Long Shot.

The more recent efforts from David Gordon Green have proven that talented directors who end up lost in the Apatow comedy industrial complex can pull out of this tailspin. It’s not too late to call John Carpenter and as if he’s got any sequels he needs helmed, Jon.