Carpenter.
Craven definitely has some legendary flicks in his repertoire. Obviously Nightmare and Scream (and however you view the low budget exploitation stuff from the 70s), but New Nightmare was a really fun meta-take and scary in its own right.
But Carpenter is a legend, pioneer, and auteur. Halloween, The Thing, The Fog, Escape from New York, They Live, Starman, Into the Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness, Big Trouble in Little China, Assault on Precinct 13. Even lesser entries like Christine, Escape from LA, and Darkstar are all pretty cool.