FIVE FLIES ON GRAY VELVET: The current Horror Roundtable asks participants to name the five directors they’d want to do a horror anthology flick. (Via Sean Collins.) I decided to do five non-genre contenders; can’t sleep, so added suggestions for possible tropes, as well. I genuinely would love to see every single one of these.

Alain Cavalier: werewolves; or serial killer
Marc Cherry: evil carnival (grar! actually he’s a writer, of course, not a director–so okay, he’ll write this one–why not get Alfonso Cuaron to direct, he seems all evil-carnivalish)
Julie Dash: zombies, or anything vodoun-related
Hirokazu Koreeda: ghost ship
another writer!: Richard O’Brien, because he’s been on my mind, and I need him and Marc Cherry to balance this otherwise quite depressing line-up: Sometimes They Come Back

(Admittedly, I’ve only seen one film each by Cavalier and Dash–Therese [the 1986 one] and Daughters of the Dust, respectively–but I know what I like.)

Another inzombiac thought: Wouldn’t (selected episodes from) the Metamorphoses make a great horror anthology?? Actaeon and Narcissus are the ones I thought of first, but you all should feel free to chime in with more possibilities, comments, elaborations, etc.