Making a horror movie isn’t always the most pleasant experience. Whether it’s the fact that the whole ordeal is mentally draining or the fact that movie studios don’t usually throw the big budgets at horror movies, it’s hard to find a story of a horror movie that got made without loads of problems behind the scenes.
Knowing that, it’s only natural that some directors would tip their pinky toe into the world of horror movies and then just walk away forever. Let’s take a look at some.
Tomas Alfredson – Let The Right One In (2008)
Right in the middle of all the Twilight craze there was this Swedish movie that suddenly took over the entire horror movie scene. And while the movie turned out to be one of the best vampire movies of its time, Alfredson never did come back to horror. In fact, he didn’t make the movie for the horror but because he was intrigued by the human struggles of the book’s protagonist Oskar.
James Gunn – Slither (2006)
While there are horror movies that James Gunn has written after the infamous Slither, he’s never actually directed a second one. It was his directorial debut and despite not tanking at the box office, it wasn’t very well-received by critics. I guess that now that he’s done the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and is helming the entire DCEU, he’s fine with not revisiting his Slither days.
