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Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma
American director and screenwriter
Tod Browning
Tod Browning
American director
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Jacques Tourneur
French-American director
James Whale
American director
William Castle
American director
King of the B-movies
Roger Corman
American writer and director
Vincent Price
Vincent Price
American actor
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
American actor
Boris Karloff in Frankenstein
Boris Karloff
British actor
Dracula
Bela Lugosi
Hungarian-American actor
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Honda Ishirō
Japanese director
Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
English actor
Wes Craven
Wes Craven
American director and screenwriter
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican director
Michael Gough
British actor
George A. Romero
George A. Romero
American director, writer, and producer
Robert Wiene
German film director

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