David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Todd Solondz, John Waters, Tod Browning, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Clive Barker, Stuart Gordon, Peter Jackson, George A. Romero, Tim Burton, John Hughes, Lucio Fulci, Lloyd Kaufman, to name a few...now for some of my favorite movies :

A Nightmare on Elm Street 1,3 & 4., Dellamorte Dellamore(Cemetery Man), Pi: Faith in Choas, Wild at Heart, Videodrome, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me , Repo! The Genetic Opera, Truth or Dare? - A Critical Madness, Happiness, Pink Flamingos, Plastic Utopia, Hellraiser, True Romance, Dark City, Dead Alive, Opera, A Clockwork Orange, The Hunger, Motel Hell, Martin, Man with the Screaming Brain, School of the Holy Beast, Suspiria, Fright Night, Maniac, Naked Lunch, Pump up the Volume, A Dirty Shame, V for Vendetta, Quills, American Splendor, Return of the Living Dead, Spider Baby, Candyman, City of Lost Children, Ed Wood, Freaks, The Big Lebowski, Nightbreed, In the Mouth of Madness, The Beyond, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dracula, Lost Boys, Dagon, Halfway House, Castle Freak, Donnie Darko, Logan's Run, Battle Royale, He Was a Quiet Man, The Breakfast Club, Evil Dead, The Karate Kid, Bubba Ho-Tep, Clerks 1&2, Dead Man, Fight Club, The Fountain, Hour of the Wolf, Kissed, Napoleon Dynamite, Phantasm, Re-Animator, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Heathers, Lone Wolf and Cub series, Sin City, Star Wars, The Street Fighter, etc