Inspirational Horror Directors

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane and William Hitchcock. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock and Eileen Hitchcock.

In 1920 when Hitchcock joined the film industry. He started off drawing the sets as he was a very skilled artist and it was there that he met Alma Reville however they hardly ever spoke to each other. It was only after the director for Always Tell Your Wife fell ill and Hitchcock had to stand in to direct. Because Alfred Hitchcock had done such a good job when he stood in they began to collaborate.

Alfred Hitchcock directed his first proper film from start to finish, in 1923 when he was hired to direct the film Number 13, however the production wasn't completed as the studio closed. Hitchcock then progressed to direct a film called The Pleasure Garden in 1925,  which was very popular and a big success. His success really began when he made a number of films in Britain for example, The Lady Vanishes and Jamaica Inn and which brought him attention in the US. 

In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock and his family moved to Hollywood, where he met American producer David O' Selznick who then hired him to direct an adaptation of 'Daphne du Maurier''s Rebecca. His fame as a director grew and film companies began to refer to his films as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy. In the late 1970's, Hitchcock was knighted, making him Sir Alfred Hitchcock. On the 29th April 1980 he died peacefully in his sleep due to renal failure.

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born on the 21st of September, 1947 at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents are Nellie Ruth and Donald Edwin King. 

He began his actual writing career in January, 1959 when Stephen decided to publish his own local newspaper called "Dave's Rag".

Stephen King made his first small sale of $35 with his story called "The Glass Floor". In June 1970 King graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor in Science and a degree in English and a certificate to teach in high school. 

On January the 2nd 1971, he married Tabitha King. In 1971 Stephen took a teaching job at Hampden Academy, earning only $6,400 a year. King began working on a short story about a teenage girl named Caretta White however after completing only a few pages, he decided that it was not a worthy story crumpling the pages up and tossing them into the bin. Thankfully, his wife Tabitha took the pages out and read them and then encouraged her husband to continue the story, which he did. In January 1973 he submitted "Carrie". On May the 12th the publishers, Doubleday sold the paperback rights for the novel to the New American Library for $400,000. His contract allowed him to get half of that sum, and he quit his teaching job to pursue writing full time.

John Carpenter 

John Carpenter was educated at Western Kentucky university. He began making short films in 1962. He won an academy award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy. Carpenter formed a band in the mid 1970's called The Coupe de Villes. Since then he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director.