Horror Research - People Involved in Horror

Directors

James Wan - created Saw, The Conjuring and Insidous

Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Roman Polanski - Knife in Water, Macbeth, Cul-de-Sac and Rosemary’s Baby

Tod Browning - The Unholy Three, London After Midnight and Dracula

James Whale - The Bride of Frankenstein

Wes Craven - The Last House of the Left, Nightmare on Elm Street (best selling horror of all time) and then made the Scream franchise which parodies horror films

Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho, The Birds, Frenzy, Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt

Producers

James Wan - Executive producer for Saw 2-7, Annabelle, Insidious 3 and The Conjuring 2

Joseph Wolf - Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween

Michael Bay - Ouija 1 and 2, The Purge Anarchy and 3, Friday 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  

Actors/Actresses

Boris Karloff - Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein and The Mummy

Gunnar Hanson - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Linda Blair - The Exorcist, Supernatural, Scream, Stranger in Our House and Repossessed

Jack Nicholson - The Shining, The Witches of Eastwick, The Little Shop of Horrors

Zelda Rubinstein - Poltergeist 1 and 2 and Tales from the Crypt

Betsy Palmer - Friday the 13th

Robert Englund - A Nightmare on Elms Street, Strangeland and Hatchet

Ken Foree - Dawn of the Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, The Devils Rejects and Halloween remake

Lon Chaney Jr - The Wolf Man, The Mummys Tomb, House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula

Tobin Bell - Saw franchise, Boogeyman 2 and 3, Buried Alive and Black Mask 2

Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Magic and Red Dragon

Richard Brooker - His Name was Jason, Friday the 13th franchise and Deathstalker

Doug Bradley - Hellraiser franchise, Nightbreed and Wrong Turn 5

Cinematographers and Composers

John Alcott - The Shining, No Way Out and Terror Train

Peter Deming - Scream franchise, The Cabin in the Woods, Drag me to Hell and Scarecrows

John R Leonetti - The Conjuring, Insidious, Annabelle, Poltergeist, Piranha, Dead Silence and Childs Play

Derek Vanlint - Alien

William A Fraker - Rosemary’s Baby, The Island of Dr Moreau and Exorcist 2

Daniel Pearl - Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and remake, Alien vs Predator, The Funhouse, Frankenstein and A Return to Salems Lot