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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
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Wes Craven - filmography
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Diary of the Dead - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman, Joshua Close
Director: George A. Romero
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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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Diary of the Dead
on DVD (2008)
Starring: Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman, Joshua Close
Director: George A. Romero
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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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50%
from 5,618 members
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Cursed
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Shannon Elizabeth
Director: Wes Craven
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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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52%
from 2,206 members
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Red Eye
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
Director: Wes Craven
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A hitman terrorises Lisa, a passenger on board a flight to Miami. His business is killing and his latest contract involves a wealthy businessman. He needs Lisa's help to fulfil the contract.
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60%
from 6,925 members
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Scream 3
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell
Director: Wes Craven
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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 »
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60%
from 2,784 members
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Scream 2
on DVD (1997)
Starring: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox
Director: Wes Craven
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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 »
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64%
from 2,802 members
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Scream
on DVD (1996)
Starring: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox
Director: Wes Craven
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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 »
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71%
from 4,033 members
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Vampire In Brooklyn
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne
Director: Wes Craven
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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 »
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54%
from 336 members
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes
Director: Wes Craven
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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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58%
from 1,250 members
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The People Under The Stairs
on DVD (1991)
Starring: Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie
Director: Wes Craven
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A boy called Fool and his mother are about to be evicted from their home by the local landlord. Fool, anxious to get money from anywhere agrees to help his sister's boy-friend break into the landlord's house. What they discover there is beyond their wildest nightmares.
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63%
from 913 members
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Shocker
on DVD (1989)
Starring: Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Richard Brooks
Director: Wes Craven
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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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56%
from 210 members
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The Serpent And The Rainbow
on DVD (1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson
Director: Wes Craven
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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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60%
from 246 members
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Deadly Friend
(1986)
Starring: Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett
Director: Wes Craven
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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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52%
from 15 members
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Hills Have Eyes, The - Part 2
on DVD (1984)
Starring: Michael Berryman, John Laughlin, Tamara Stafford
Director: Wes Craven
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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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50%
from 223 members
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A Nightmare On Elm Street 1
on DVD (1984)
Starring: John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Ronee Blakley
Director: Wes Craven
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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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69%
from 3,177 members
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Swamp Thing
on DVD (1981)
Starring: Louis Jourdan, Ray Wise, Adrienne Barbeau
Director: Wes Craven
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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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49%
from 111 members
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Summer Of Fear
on DVD (1978)
Starring: Linda Blair, Jeremy Slate, Jeff East
Director: Wes Craven
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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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38%
from 319 members
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The Hills Have Eyes
(2 discs)
on DVD (1977)
Starring: Robert Houston, Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman
Director: Wes Craven
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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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58%
from 759 members
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Last House On The Left
(2 discs)
on DVD (1972)
Starring: Sandra Cassel, David Hess, Lucy Grantham
Director: Wes Craven
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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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46%
from 643 members
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Wes Craven facts
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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...
Dog Dirt Desperate 23 February 2007
