Ray Harryhausen. Well, I have met him a couple of times - but he's my all-time hero - so I'd like to meet him again!
One Million Years BC, A Chinese Ghost Story, Point Blank, Bubba Ho-Tep, Q the Winged Serpent, Yojimbo, Jaws, Quatermass and the Pit, Badlands, Rosemary's Baby, The Parallax View, Dinosaurus!, Southern Comfort, Alien, Aliens, Enter the Dragon, Night of the Demon, The Long Riders, Frankenstein (Universal), Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, City on Fire, Fiend Without a Face, The Mummy (Hammer version), Reservoir Dogs, Azumi, Psycho, Psycho II, Old Boy, Basket Case, Marathon Man, Ms. 45, Bad Guy, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, War of the Worlds (50's version), Versus, Ryan's Daughter, City of the Dead, Ju-On, North By Northwest, Eastern Condors, Wild At Heart, Audition, The Birds, The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass II, Branded to Kill, The Vikings, Jackie Brown, Jason and the Argonauts, The Thing From Another World, The Thing, The Omega Man, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, White Heat, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Kill Bill (parts 1 + 2), Tess, Blue Velvet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original + 70's remake), A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Invasion USA (the Chuck Norris version!), A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, Mad Max, Mad Max II, Planet of the Apes (original), Dawn of the Dead (original + remake), Day of the Dead, Game of Death, Manhunter, Duel, Angry Red Planet, Gremlins, The Godfather, The Godfather II, Rear Window, Destroy All Monsters, Nekromantik II, Taxi Driver, Body Double, The Exorcist, Exorcist III, The Dirty Dozen, Beastmaster, Assault on Precinct 13 (original), Dark Star, The Thomas Crown Affair (original + remake), Halloween, The Wizard of Oz, Adventures of the Kung Fu Rascals, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Zombie Flesh Eaters, King Kong (original + 70's version), Ghost in the Shell, Dirty Harry, The Killer, Dracula (Universal version + Hammer version + '79 version), Bram Stoker's Dracula, Leon, Nikita, Night Watch, Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Bichunmoo, Carnival of Souls, The Lost World (60's version), Magnum Force, The Ring (original + U.S. remake), She (Hammer version), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Young Frankenstein, Casshern, Deep Red, The Andromeda Strain, Westworld, The Terminator, Terminator II, Back to the Future, Drive, Conan the Barbarian, Them, Infernal Affairs, Infernal Affairs III, Dr. No, House on Haunted Hill (original), Hands of the Ripper, Tremors, Theatre of Blood, Once Upon a Time in the West, Tenebre, Snake Deadly Act, Suspiria, The Last Man on Earth, Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible II, Night of the Living Dead (original), Spartacus, The Haunting (original), The Blob (original + remake), The Black Scorpion, Bullet in the Head, Zulu, From Dusk Till Dawn, Eight Legged Freaks, The Ipcress File, The Spy Who Loved Me, Lolita (original), The Hidden, The Omen (original), Omen II, Tetsuo, An American Werewolf in London, Carrie, Masque of the Red Death (Corman version), Scarface (original + remake), The Untouchables, Goldfinger, The Towering Inferno, Live and Let Die, Trancers, The Wild Bunch, Scorpion Thunderbolt, Kings of the Sun, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Phantasm, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (original), A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, The Naked Jungle, El Cid, The Naked Prey, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Hardware, The Matrix, The Lost Continent (Hammer version), Pulp Fiction, Vampyros Lesbos, Kiss of the Vampire, Hellboy, The Asphalt Jungle, Brides of Dracula, The Manchurian Candidate (original), Fantastic Voyage, The Hills Have Eyes (original), Soylent Green, Von Ryan's Express, Get Carter (original), God of Gamblers, Snakes on a Plane (!), Robocop, Bad Taste, Clerks, Street Trash, Blood Feast, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade, Blade II... all the Babycart movies, the last three Gamera movies, the Godzilla movies made in the 60's and 70's, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, most of Ray Harryhausen's movies, and many more!
Curb Your Enthusiasm, UFO, Bottom, Beasts, Spooks, Ultraviolet, Doctor Who (starring John Pertwee), Thunderbirds, Samurai Jack, Spongebob Squarepants, Tom and Jerry, Threads, 24 (first 2 seasons), Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, The Twilight Zone (original series), The Young Ones, Captain Scarlet, Fawlty Towers, Astronut, Robinson Crusoe, The Flashing Blade, The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Son of the Incredibly Strange Film Show, Japanorama, Stingray, The Office, Star Trek (60's series), Marine Boy, Dad's Army, and many more!
Philip K. Dick, Elmore Leonard, Brian Aldiss, Richard Morgan, William Hope Hodgson, Iain M. Banks, Greg Bear, Joe Haldeman (The Forever War), Walter M. Miller Jr, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Robert E. Howard, Douglas E. Winter (Run), Edward Bunker (Dog Eat Dog).
Ray Harryhausen, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian DePalma, Jack Kirby, Barry Windsor Smith, William Shatner, Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Willis O'Brien, Kazuo Koike, Warren Ellis, and many more!