Some Of The WORST Horror Directors. The Very Worst.
Mostly a remake of another list "Worst Horror Directors". Most of the ratings are in order.
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Widely known for his frequent collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a creative partnership which lasted 10 years and produced over 20 films, Ulli Lommel is one of the most consistently creative filmmakers to come from the New German Cinema movement.
The son of German comic performer Ludwig Manfred Lommel, Ulli Lommel began his career in show business as a child. His second feature film as a director Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) brought Lommel to New York, where he began working with Andy Warhol at The Factory. The Warhol / Lommel years spawned several features, including Cocaine Cowboys (1979) and Blank Generation (1980), both of which were directed by Lommel and feature Warhol in an acting role.
In the summer of 2013 Lommel went for nine months to Brazil, where he wrote a book and also made a film about Campo Bahia, the official camp for the German National Soccer Team. His autobiography, entitled Tenderness of the Wolves, is due out in late 2015.- Actor
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Jochen Taubert is known for Zombie Reanimation (2009), Project Genesis: Crossclub 2 (2011) and Ich pisse auf deinen Kadaver (1999). He is married to Uta Taubert.Ich Pisse Auf Dein Kadaver (1999) - 4.6
Maniac Killer (1997) - 4.3
Maniac Killer 2 (1998) - 4.0
Psychokill (2000) - 4.0
Turbo Zombi (2011) - 3.9
Zombie Reanimation (2009) - 3.8
Sheeba - Die dunkelste Seite der Macht (2005) - 3.4
Ferdinand fährt Ferrari (2005) - 3.0
Underworld Cats (2010) - 3.0
Project Genesis (2011) - 3.0
Exhibitionisten Attacke (2000) - 2.8
Pudelmützen Rambos (2004) - 2.7
Bad Boys Bad Toys (2007) - 2.2
Die Rückkehr der Gabelstaplerfahrer (2013) - 2.2
Piratenmassaker (2000) - 2.1
Dornröschen, Hingerichtet, and Schlachtfest des Teufels have no ratings whatsoever. Therefore, zero percent films with a rating above four. *claps*- Director
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Andy Milligan was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1929. He was a self-taught film maker, playwright, script writer and costume designer. He grew up mostly in Minnesota, but he and his family moved around the country a lot. His father, Andrew Milligan Sr. (1894-1985) was a captain in the U.S. Army who served in the military for over 50 years (retiring in the mid 1960s holding the rank of colonel). His mother, Marie Gladys Hull (1900-1953), was an overweight, neurotic-bipolar alcoholic who physically and verbally abused her husband and children. She served as the basis for scores of her son's characters when he began making films. Milligan had an older half-brother named Harley Hull (1924-1998) and a younger sister named Louise Milligan Howe (1931-2021). After finishing grade school, Milligan joined the U.S. Navy where he served four years. After his honorable discharge, he settled in New York City in 1951 where he dabbled in acting on stage and opened a dress shop.
During the 1950s Milligan became involved in the nascent off-off-Broadway theater movement where he mounted productions of plays by Lord Dunsany and Jean Genet at the Caffe Cino, a small Greenwich Village coffeehouse that served as a hothouse for rising theater talent like Lanford Wilson, Tom Eyen and John Guare. Milligan also became involved with directing low-key theater productions at Cafe La Ma Ma Experimental Theater Club. During this period he operated and designed for a clothing boutique named Ad Lib and used his crude dressmaking skills to costume many theatrical productions.
In the early 1960s Milligan turned to film making. He met some of the actors for his early films at Caffe Cino. His first released film was a 30-minute black-and-white 16 mm short drama entitled Vapors (1965). Set in the notorious gay bathhouse St. Mark's Baths, it was written by Hope Stansbury, the raven-haired beauty who would star in a few of his later films. The film, set on one Friday evening in the St. Mark's Baths, portrays an emotionally awkward and unconsummated meeting between two strangers. Milligan was later employed by producers of exploitation films, particularly William Mishkin, to direct softcore sexploitation and horror features, many featuring actors known from the off-off Broadway theater community.
Milligan then hooked up with famed sexploitation producer William Mishkin and made 11 features, all shot with a single hand-held 16mm Auricon camera on short ends (snippets of film left over from other productions). Some of those include Depraved! (1967), Seeds of Sin (1968) ("Sown in Incest! Harvested in Hate!") and Fleshpot on 42nd Street (1972). Many of these early works play like bizarre morality tales where sleazy characters get violently paid back for their excesses.
In 1966, Milligan set up shop in a Victorian mansion located on northern Staten Island, within walking distance of the ferry and his own house. The house soon became "Hollywood central," where he filmed most of his movies on budgets ranging from $5,000 to $20,000. Milligan was a one-man army--he wrote, directed, built sets and sewed costumes for his splatter epics like The Ghastly Ones (1968). His usual "stock company" (Stansbury, Neil Flanagan, Hal Borske) was often supplemented by Staten Island locals who were dragged into performing.
Milligan even married one of his actresses, Candy Hammond, who starred in a number of his films, most notably as Pussy Johnson in Gutter Trash (1969). No one took the wedding seriously, because Milligan was unabashedly homosexual and an avowed misogynist. The service took place at the Staten Island house, which was still decorated for the movie shoot Seeds. That night, Milligan cruised gay bars to celebrate.
In 1968, Milligan began to make horror movies featuring gore effects with The Ghastly Ones (1968), a 19th century period piece and his first color film which was produced by JER and titled by Sam Sherman. In 1969, he made his next horror movie, Torture Dungeon (1969), a medieval period piece after which he moved to London, England to make movies there after having made a deal with producer Leslie Elliot. After directing Nightbirds (1970) in London, his partnership with Elliot collapsed as he was working on The Body Beneath (1970). Milligan then teamed up again with William Mishkin again where Mishkin produced and Milligan directed three more period piece British horror films which were Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970), The Man with Two Heads (1972), and The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972) (all shot in 1969) before Milligan's return to Staten Island in 1970.
On his return to New York, Milligan wrote and directed another medieval period piece titled Guru, the Mad Monk (1970), which was shot for the first time with a 35mm Arriflex camera and filmed entirely inside a Chelsea, Manhattan church. This movie was released on a double feature with The Body Beneath. Through the next years, Mishkin released Milligan's British-made pictures, some with additional scenes shot in New York. The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here! was one of Mishkin's films in which he had Milligan insert new killer rat scenes shot in New York, mostly at his new Staten Island house on Corson Street where Milligan lived during that time and filmed another horror period piece there in 1973 which was titled Blood (1973).
After directing the 1972 sexploitation drama Fleshpot on 42nd Street (1972), Milligan's output was restricted mostly to gory horror movies as he moved to the southern tip of Staten Island in the Tottenville neighborhood where he lived in and owned and operated a dilapidated hotel located at the end of Main Street right next to the southern end of Staten Island Railway.
In October 1977, Milligan moved into 335 West 39th Street in Manhattan (a four-story building purchased for $50,000 by Milligan and stockholders), where he founded and ran the Troupe Theater, a seedy but fun off-off Broadway venue above which he lived in a third-floor loft until he left New York City for good in March 1985. He moved to Los Angeles, California, where he shot three more contemporary horror movies between 1987 and 1988 as well as operated another theater company, called the Troupe West, which ran until 1990.
Andy Milligan was heavily into S&M and had very few serious relationships (all with men). The few friends he did have were just as emotionally troubled and dangerously disturbed as he was. A Vietnam veteran and ex-convict named Dennis Malvasi, who once drifted into and worked at Andy's Troupe Theater in the late 1970s and early 1980s, later made news headlines in March 2001 when he and his wife were arrested for aiding the flight of fugitive James Kopp, the suspected murderer of a New York abortion doctor. One boyfriend, "human toothpick" B. Wayne Keeton (so-named for his gaunt physical build), was a good natured Louisiana hustler who appeared in a small role in Monstrosity (1987), one of Milligan's last films. Keeton's death from AIDS in June 1989 hit Milligan hard, and he soon began having his own health problems. He learned shortly afterwards that he, too, had contracted AIDS, apparently from Keeton. With no insurance, little money, and the era of exploitation films over, Andy Milligan went into a reclusive decline until his death on June 3, 1991 at age 62.- Director
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Donald Farmer is considered one of the most unique of the "cult-horror" directors. Directing dozens of feature films for decades, his unique film concepts, have brought film goers excitement, fear, and joy. His leading actresses are often cast for their unique beauty, and Donald seeks to empower crew members from all walks of life and skill level. As a director and producer, Donald is both supportive, creative and motivational developing long-lasting friendships with cast and crew alike.- Producer
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With more than two dozen feature films under his belt, Leigh Scott has been working as a professional writer, director, producer, editor, and cinematographer in the film industry for nearly twenty years.
He attended USC's prestigious School of Cinema-Television. While in school he obtained an internship working for Roger Corman's "Concorde Pictures". At Concorde, he worked in production, marketing and development.
Upon graduation, at the age of 22, he successfully produced and directed his first feature film, Beach House (1996). He followed that up four years later with Art House (1998), a comedy that was an official selection at the Aspen U.S. Comedy Arts festival.
Leigh has always looked to push the envelope in both the business and creative aspects of the industry. He was one of the first filmmakers to encourage digital acquisition over film and embrace digital post production. He trained editors at Warner Bros. in the use of computer editing systems as early as 1994, was one of the first directors to shoot on RED digital cinema cameras, and supervised some of the earliest motion-capture tests and shoots for Microsoft.- Producer
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As a youth, he produced a number of short films on Super 8 and video. After short stints as guest auditor at Filmacademy Vienna and Filmhochschule Munich, Boll studied literature and economics in Cologne and Siegen. He graduated from university in 1995 with a doctorate in literature. From 1995-2000, he was a producer and director with Taunus Film-Produktions GmbH. Boll was Chief Executive Officer of Bolu Filmproduction and Distribution GmbH which he founded in 1992. He continued to direct, write and produce feature films until 2016. His main companies are Event Films in Vancouver and Bolu Film in Germany. A longtime resident of Canada, Boll owned the restaurant "Bauhaus" in Vancouver from 2015 to 2020. Returned to Germany and resumed filming in 2020.- Producer
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Tommy Brunswick was born on 24 September 1970 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is a producer and director, known for The Remake (2006), They Must Eat (2006) and Cannibals of Carnage (2014).- Writer
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Todd Sheets is known for Dreaming Purple Neon (2016), Hi-8 (Horror Independent 8) (2013) and Bonehill Road (2017).- Special Effects
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Olaf Ittenbach was born in 1969 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany. He is a director and actor, known for Beyond the Limits (2003), BloodRayne (2005) and 5 Seasons (2015). He has been married to Tanja Ittenbach since 30 March 2012. He was previously married to Martina Ittenbach.Ittenbach, (I'm being honest here), is not really that bad of a director. I did enjoy the Burning Moon and Black Past, as those films have some decent gore effects, but he has also directed some flops.
Evil Rising (2002) - 5.8 (Warning: This film does not exist, and yet ten people gave it ratings).
Premutos (1997) - 5.5
Familienradgeber 2 (2009) - 5.3
Black Past (1989) - 5.0
The Burning Moon (1997) - 4.8
Riverplay (2000) - 4.8
Beyond the Limits (2002) - 4.8
Garden of Love (2003) - 4.8
Family Saga (2006) - 4.7
No Reason (2010) - 4.2
Legend of Hell (2012) - 4.1
Savage Love (2012) - 3.9
Dard Divorce (2007) - 3.8
Chain Reaction (2006) - 3.6
Legion of the Dead (2001) - 2.9- Producer
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Andreas Bethmann is known for Help me I am Dead - Die Geschichte der Anderen (2013) and Terror Creek (2014).Mr. Bethmann, sleaze porn director also brings us cheesy horror films as well. Most of his porn shots have ratings of five or six. These are just his horror attempts only.
Exitus interruptus - Der Tod ist erst der Anfang (2006) - 5.1
Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre (2007) - 5.0
Exitus II: House of Pain (2008) - 5.0
Help me I am Dead - Die Geschichte der Anderen (2013) - 4.9
Tanz der Kürbisköpfe (1996) - 4.2
Prison of Hell: K3 (2009) - 4.1
Rossa Venezia (2003) - 2.9
Dämonenbrut (2000) - 2.8
Die Insel der Dämonen (1998) - 2.2 (Possibly the most boring film Bethmann has ever done).
Der Totenhügel, and Hills of the Living Dead 2 have zero ratings while the whole Das Weststadt Massaker don't have IMDB pages. Terror Lake is in the works.- Actor
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Born in Hamburg, Germany on April 1, 1968, filmmaker Andreas Schnaas embraced the cinema at a very young age. Since many of the local theaters in his city didn't care about how young their patrons were, he was exposed to violent martial arts, zombie films, and splatter at a very tender age. The results, as his films portray, are quite unmistakable. Schnaas has become the poster-boy for Germany's ultra-violent horror film industry.
Schnaas' parents were not always pleased with his choice of entertainment, but recognized his artistic talents and vivid imagination. He used this imagination, compounded with his love of horror, to make his first film at age twelve. The film, entitled Hunted, featured Andreas and his friend killing a man, who was played by his grandfather. His father filmed this feature, as well as many other movies that the boys made over the next several years. With no budget, Andreas took what he had and made the very most of it. It wasn't until 1989, however, that he mustered together five thousand marks - enough to make his first full-length feature.
Shot with his friends over four extremely long weekends, Schnaas' gory tale of "Karl the Butcher", entitled Violent Shit (1987), went on to become Germany's first direct-to-video horror film. Catapulting into an overnight sensation, the film quickly appeared on video stores in America and the rest of Europe. When asked where he came up with such a vulgar title for his film, he once explained that a pen pal frankly told him, "All you're making is violent sh*t," and it stuck.
Still spiraling off of Violent Sh*t's unexpected success, Andreas created his homage to the undead with Zombie 90 - Extreme Pestilence (1990), the English version of which features the most hilarious dubbing ever committed to celluloid. The following year, he decided to continue the story of Karl with Violent Shit 2 - Mother Hold My Hand (1992), eventually releasing it in 1992. The fans' outcry for a final film in the series kept Schnaas going - filming the third portion of the Violent Sh*t trilogy the next year. Budget constraints kept the film from being released for years, but it eventually saw the light of day in 1999 under the title, Violent Shit III - Infantry of Doom (or Zombie Doom in the US). Andreas also played the killer, Karl, in all three films.
Andreas then directed Der Kelch - Goblet of Gore (2005) in 1996, although various issues kept it shelved until 2005. As a homage to Italian director Joe D'Amato, he then remade the classic slasher film, Anthropophagous, changing the title to Anthropophagous 2000 (1999). It was also in 1999 that Andreas began preparing for his next film, which he would release as his "millennium shocker". The movie, Demonium (2001), was his first 35MM project, made with completely professional actors and shot in English.
Schnaas then directed his first film in America, Nikos (2003) - which featured Demonium star Joe Zaso and Felissa Rose of the 80s classic, Sleepaway Camp. After that, he directed the zombie action film Don't Wake the Dead (2007).
He currently lives in Rellingen, Germany, with his wife and children.VS3: Infantry of Doom (1999) - 4.1
Anthropophagous 2000 (1999) - 3.7
Violent *beep* 2 (1992) - 3.6
Nikos the Impaler (2003) - 3.6
Don't Wake the Dead (2008) - 3.3
Karl the Butcher vs. Axe (2010) - 3.3
Goblet of Gore (1996) - 3.2
Demonium (2001) - 3.2
Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence (1991) - 2.8
Violent *beep* (1989) - 2.6
Unrated: The Movie (2009) - 2.5
Only one film of his that reached the three scale. And Unrated has a sequel. Be very afraid...- Director
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Timo Rose is a German director and producer. He is responsible for movie like "Barricade", "Beast" , "Game Over" or TV Shows like "Nature - The Series" starring Max Evans, or "Mission M Tv" in cooperation with German TV-Star Uschi Glas' son Ben Tewaag. Moreover he is also active as musician and producer for music. He produced songs with artists like Cappuccino, (Cappuccino, Jazzkantine), Tachiles (Jazzkantine, Fresh Familee) etc. Additionally he worked with international musicians and composed a variety of movie scores and themes in cooperation with John Roome (Soundtrack Die Hard 4, Fantstic Four etc.) or Marco Werba (Giallo with Adrian Brody (Predators). In the decade since he began creating films, he has directed more features than any other filmmakers in the German film/ horror scene. Timo's movie "Game Over" has won eleven awards in the USA, Canada and Austria, among others Best Movie, Best Director and Best Female Actors. Timo has been honored with awards like the Goldenen Glibb for the Best Movie, credits for the Best German and International Independent Movie, the Fright Nights award and he was nominated 17 times for other movie awards.Mutation 3 - Century of the Dead (2002) - 5.3
Mutation 2 - Generation Dead (2001) - 5.2
Moonlight Mountain (2006) - 4.9
Rigor Mortis (2003) - 4.9
Mutation (1999) - 4.6
Space Wolf (2003) - 4.5
Mutation: Annihilation (2007) - 4.5 (I thought this was a waste of Rose's talent. All it is is recapped footage straight from the previous Mutation sequels with CG animation with cut out backgrounds, defaults, and short running time).
Game Over (2009) - 4.5
Barricade (2007) - 4.1
Timo Rose's Beast (2009) - 4.1
Midnight's Calling (2000) - 3.6
Lord of the Undead (2004) - 3.6
Rout City (2002) - 2.5
Fearmakers (2008) - 2.2
Psycho Jack has not been listed due to the fact that it's not a horror film. It's an hour long POS masqueraded as a film. Most of the film has Timo talking and friends through out the film and the anti climax with the only chick in the film. Yes, it has a rating of 2.8, which doesn't deserve that much credit. It deserves a one.
Timo Rose, also has films that are not listed on IMDB and are very rare to find (Das Letzte Grab, The Evil Day (1992-2000), Die Rache des Mark S., etc.)