Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma directed twelve of the fourteen entries held under his name and turns up before the camera on two others. Greetings, which he directed, won a Silver Bear at the 1969 Berlin festival. Writing in 1998, the Sight & Sound critic Peter Matthews takes Carrie of 1976 for the starting point of a whole sub-genre and describes the real joke of that film as how effective something assembled from the parts of old teen exploitation pictures could be. The same piece finds his work the more sincere when set beside the later examples of the genre. The best voted production in his catalogue is Scarface of 1983.