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  • Wes Craven: The Last House on the Left - 18 June 2009
    - -Due to his religious upbringing, Wes Craven didn’t see a single film as a child, and only got into making horror films for the money. We caught up with the legendary horror director to talk remakes and rom-coms.- - Why not watch Wes's original versio


  • Horror movies are now legit, says Wes Craven - 2 April 2007
    horror genre has now become more legitimately recognised within the film industry and is seen as fun and adventurous, director Wes Craven has claimed.-Although his recent contributions include Red Eye, Cursed and the Scream trilogy, Craven began his career when hor

Wes Craven - what members say


  • Scream
  • Scream review by from BRISTOL
    Rated - 4 stars 20 October 2004
    ... icon before the closing credits roll begins to get tiresome. Not perfect, but Wes Craven's best horror film (yes - better than A Nightmare on Elm Street), it's just a p...  
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare review by TheJazzman from Aberdeen
    Rated - 5 stars The Master reenergises 28 October 2004
    ...st horror film I watched and it scared the crap of of me!!! (And still does) Wes Craven, Freddy's creator, comes back for this film and it improves greatly, mixing wha...  
  • A Nightmare On Elm Street 1
  • A Nightmare On Elm Street 1 review by from the middle of Dorset
    Rated - 3 stars Seminal eighties horror film 15 December 2004
    ...ughable at times and this is not deliberate, recaling Freddy's extendable arms. Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a cunning twist on the genre and the Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince...  

Wes Craven - filmography


  • Diary of the Dead on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Nick Alachiotis,  Matt Birman,  Joshua Close
    Director: George A. Romero
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear.
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  • Cursed on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Christina Ricci,  Joshua Jackson,  Shannon Elizabeth
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A brother and sister are trying to recover from the shock of losing their parents. Out driving one day they become involved in a car accident and are attacked by a wild beast which drags off the other driver involved. Soon the siblings begin to experience physical changes..
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  • Scream 3 on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Courteney Cox,  David Arquette,  Neve Campbell
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Wes Craven's final installment of his highly successful SCREAM trilogy concludes with a fun, fast, and furious romp that cuts through B-movie cliches as readily as it does the warm flesh of its hip young cast. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox Arquette), and Dwight "..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 8,099 members
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  • Scream 2 on DVD (1997)
    Starring: David Arquette,  Neve Campbell,  Courteney Cox
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The hip, darkly comical sequel to self-aware "SCREAM." Sidney Prescott, now in college, once again finds herself the target of a bloodthirsty, cloak-clad, mask-wearing, knife-wielding, psychotic killer whose penchant for pop movie trivia runs deep. This time, however, the body count is higher and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 9,317 members
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  • Scream on DVD (1996)
    Starring: David Arquette,  Neve Campbell,  Courteney Cox
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A hyper-intelligent serial killer preys on the teenage denizens of a small town, using their fascination with horror movie conventions to set up his diabolical doings. An intelligent, well-crafted thriller from the creator of "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET." The deluxe version contains a behind-the-..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 15,521 members
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  • Vampire In Brooklyn on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Angela Bassett,  Allen Payne
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Eddie Murphy is Maximillian, the last of a race of vampires from the Caribbean who travels to New York in search of Rita (Angela Bassett), an NYPD officer whom he considers to be the perfect woman to carry on his dying bloodline. Once he hits Gotham, Maximillian has a series of fish-out-of-water ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,566 member
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  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Heather Langenkamp,  Miko Hughes
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Freddy's back, only this time he's not confined to dreams in this macabre film within a film. Heather Langenkamp, star of the original NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, along with other actors and director Craven all appear as themselves. When Heather's husband is mysteriously killed her son begins to have ..read more »
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  • Shocker on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Murphy,  Peter Berg,  Richard Brooks
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a series of unusual dreams, young football star Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg) captures serial killer Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), a diabolical television repairman responsible for the deaths of several families. Pinker is sentenced to die in the electric chair, but the execution goes awry ..read more »
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  • The Serpent And The Rainbow on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Cathy Tyson
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the real-life experiences of Wade Davis, THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW is the story of a Harvard anthropologist (Bill Pullman) who takes an assignment from a wealthy pharmaceutical firm to investigate a 'miracle' drug found in a well-established religion in Haiti--voodoo. The drug is ..read more »
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  • Deadly Friend (1986)
    Starring: Matthew Laborteaux,  Kristy Swanson,  Michael Sharrett
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In this unusual tale of the dead returning to the world of the living, a teenaged girl is killed by her abusive father. Her grief-stricken friend implants his robot's brain into her body. This proves unscientificly sound as the undead girl begins murdering people, and the junior inventor has to ..read more »
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  • The Hills Have Eyes - Part 2 on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Michael Berryman,  John Laughlin,  Tamara Stafford
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Crazed mutants with an insatiable thirst for human blood attack a group of youngsters walking along a lonely desert road in the dead of night. Everyone is killed except a man and a blind girl who are left to face the terror alone. This sequel to the beloved cannibal film is directed by famed horror ..read more »
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  • A Nightmare On Elm Street 1 on DVD (1984)
    Starring: John Saxon,  Johnny Depp,  Ronee Blakley
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A hellish, razor-fingered monster enters the dreams of the teenage residents of a bucolic town and systematically slaughters them in their sleep--until one courageous young woman does battle with the predatory fiend. An excellent, surprisingly surrealistic genre entry from the master, Wes Craven.
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  • Swamp Thing on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Louis Jourdan,  Ray Wise,  Adrienne Barbeau
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In an attempt to relieve the world of hunger, a group of scientists develop a chemical which causes things to grow at a prodigious rate. When the substance is spilled on one of the researchers, he becomes a foliage covered monster and abruptly moves into the local swamp. Based on the DC comic book.
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  • Summer Of Fear on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Linda Blair,  Jeremy Slate,  Jeff East
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Rachel's (LINDA BLAIR) cousin Julia comes to live with on the family farm; strange things start to happen. Slowly Julia starts to influence the people around Rachel, who starts to suspect that her cousing is a witch. Finally Rachel is forced to fight for her life when things start to go ..read more »
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  • The Hills Have Eyes on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Robert Houston,  Susan Lanier,  Michael Berryman
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When their camper breaks down in the desert on their way to California, a desperate family struggles to survive the attacks of a bizarre cannibalistic family, hungry for fresh meat and determined to terrorize the innocent vacationers. As members of the Carter clan fall prey to these inbred ..read more »
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  • Last House On The Left on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Sandra Cassel,  David Hess,  Lucy Grantham
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Two teenage girls head to a concert for a birthday celebration that is brutally interrupted when they are kidnapped, raped, and murdered by three sadistic escaped convicts. However, the killers stumble in the home of one of the girls, and the parents take the opportunity to gain violent revenge for ..read more »
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Wes Craven - watch online


  • Lucas Booth Journey To Unknown to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Wes Craven,  Ronnie Petricevich,  Vincent Creazzo
    Director: Steven James Creazzo
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 71 minutes
    This mockumentary examines the life of Lucas James Booth, an enigmatic horror filmmaker who vanished without a trace in 1974, leaving many to wonder if his disappearance wasn't somehow connected to the content of his films. Twenty-five years later, two filmmakers decide to delve into the life of ..read more »
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  • Going To Pieces to Watch Now (2006)
    Starring: Ed Green,  Malek Akkad,  Lilyan Chauvin
    Director: Jeff McQueen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 88 minutes
    In this candid, sensational and gore-soaked feature-length documentary, the titans of terror take you on a comprehensively terrifying trip to the very beginnings of the slasher phenomenon. With its importance, prominence, and newfound legitimacy peaking in the in the 1980s, that most controversial ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 44 members
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  • Vampire in Brooklyn to Watch Now (1995)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Angela Bassett,  Allen Payne
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 102 minutes
    Eddie Murphy's got the bite in this movie mix of bone-chilling horror and chill-out comedy directed by Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street). As the vampire Maximillian, the popular star is the most diabolical, dashing and definitely undead dude in the 'hood. To add to the macabre fun, Murphy ..read more »
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  • Hills Have Eyes II to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Michael Berryman,  John Laughlin,  Tamara Stafford
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 87 minutes
    Crazed mutants with an insatiable thirst for human blood attack a group of youngsters walking along a lonely desert road in the dead of night. Everyone is killed except a man and a blind girl who are left to face the terror alone. This sequel to the beloved cannibal film is directed by famed horror ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 4 members
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  • Last House on the Left - Uncut to Watch Now (1972)
    Starring: Sarah Peabody,  Lucy Grantham,  David Hess
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 82 minutes
    Two teenage girls head to a concert for a birthday celebration that is brutally interrupted when they are kidnapped, raped, and murdered by three sadistic escaped convicts. However, the killers stumble in the home of one of the girls, and the parents take the opportunity to gain violent revenge for ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 126 members
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Wes Craven facts

5 most recent films

Diary of the Dead - 2.5 stars
Diary of the Dead - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Going to Pieces - The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film - 3.0 stars
Cursed - 2.5 stars
Red Eye - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Music Of The Heart - 3.5 stars
Scream - 3.5 stars
A Nightmare On Elm Street 1 - 3.5 stars
Twilight Zone, The - Season 1 - 3.0 stars
Scream 2 - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Chiller - 2.0 stars
Wes Craven's Chiller - 2.5 stars
Deadly Blessing - 2.5 stars
Deadly Friend - 2.5 stars
Summer Of Fear - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Neve Campbell - 4 times - show films
David Arquette - 4 times - show films
Liev Schreiber - 4 times - show films
Courteney Cox - 4 times - show films
Robert Englund - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

William Friedkin - 2 times - show films
Joe Dante - 2 times - show films
Paul L - 2 times - show films
Jeff McQueen - 2 times - show films
George A. Romero - 2 times - show films