5. Alfred Hitchcock
No one said that a director has to be currently living to have one of the most passionate fanbases around. The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, has been gone for some time now, but the filmic genius who brought us Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, and many, many more crafted some of the best and most nerve-jangling movies of all time - and his fanbase represents and embraces that fact wholeheartedly. Hitchcock has created an army of fans that, to this day, have seen his films hundreds and hundreds of times, and still purchase tickets for movie marathons at small-time theatres. Every Halloween you know that a good anthology of spooky films are sure to factor in a Hitchcock classic or two. Inside the film classroom and out of it, Hitchcock is a symbol of cinematic history with a fandom that reaches out to both general audiences and to the countless filmmakers who he inspired to get behind the camera.