{"id":36580,"date":"2015-08-30T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T03:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=36580"},"modified":"2015-08-30T23:16:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T03:16:58","slug":"horror-master-wes-craven-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/30\/horror-master-wes-craven-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Master Wes Craven, 76"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wes Craven, the director who revolutionized the horror films of two decades, died earlier today at his home in Los Angeles after a long bout with brain cancer. He was 76.<\/p>\n

Craven’s 1984 slasher A Nightmare On Elm Street<\/strong> was a success far beyond its low budget roots. Starring Robert Englund as the supernatural killer Freddie Kruger, the film launched one of the genre’s most recognizable franchises as well as a host of imitators. Although Craven would only be directly involved in the first film, help write A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors<\/strong> (1987) and write and direct the 1994 franchise relaunch Wes Craven’s New Nightmare<\/strong>, the series was credited as giving studio New Line Cinema the financial footing it needed to produce a number of other genre pictures.<\/p>\n

For the 1990s, Craven reshaped the horror genre with 1996’s Scream<\/strong> and its two sequels. Stalked by a knife-wielding killer wearing a mask modeled off of Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch’s famed work “The Scream,” a group of teens actively discuss horror movie tropes and hope that their knowledge of them will save their lives. The success of the first of the films lead to a new cycle of post-modern horror films.<\/p>\n

Although Craven has admitted that he worked on a number of porn films at the start of his career under various pseudonyms, his first credited work as a director was the 1972 exploitation thriller The Last House On The Left<\/strong>. Made for a paltry $87,000 the film grossed over $3 million at the US box office, setting the stage for larger things in Craven’s career. Other early films include The Hills Have Eyes<\/strong> and the horror comic book adaption Swamp Thing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Many of Craven’s films dealt with characters and their perceptions of reality. Freddy Kruger attacked his victims through their dreams and in New Nightmare<\/strong>, franchise actress Heather Langenkamp plays herself being stalked by her fictional co-star. In 1988’s The Serpent And The Rainbow<\/strong>, Bill Pullman plays a character who is plagued by hallucinations that he has trouble distinguishing from reality.<\/p>\n

Though best known for his work in horror, he directed Meryl Streep to an Academy Award-nomination for Best Actress in the drama Music From The Heart<\/strong>. He also directed the 2005 psychological thriller Red Eye<\/strong> and a romantic comedy segment in the anthology film Paris Je t\u2019aime<\/strong>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wes Craven, the horror director who revolutionized the genre twice, has died.<\/div>\n

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