John Hough /hɔːf/[1] (born 21 November 1941)[2] is a British film and television director.
He is primarily known for his suspense films of the 1970s and 1980s,[3] including Twins of Evil (1971), The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Incubus (1982) and American Gothic (1988), as well as the 1974 action thriller Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.
"That one sank without trace", Hough recalled in the notes for his biography on the DVD of his 1980 film The Watcher in the Woods, "but in 1970 a Hollywood producer named Paul Maslanksy came over here looking for a new director to work on a remake of The Window (1949), in which a young boy is the sole witness to a murder and is then tracked down by the assassin.
Hough later directed three of the TV movies in the 1984 anthology series Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense.
He directed a series of films based on Barbara Cartland novels starting with A Hazard of Hearts.