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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

Wes Craven - what members say


  • Scream
  • Scream review by loz#6 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 Sam Inglis from Tonbridge
    Rated - 4 stars Wes Craven's New Nightmare 29 June 2006
    ...1994. It is 10 years since Heather Langenkamp (playing herself) starred in Wes Craven's (also himself) A Nightmare on Elm Street, which introduced the world to horror boo...  
  • Scream 3
  • Scream 3 review by A customer from North VVest
    Rated - 1 stars Dog Dirt Desperate 23 February 2007
    ...ts this film on in front of me and I can't do anything to turn it off. Why does Wes Craven have to spoil all his films with loads of crappy sequals? This film has more an...  

Wes Craven - filmography


  • Diary of the Dead on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Nick Alachiotis,  Matt Birman,  Joshua Close
    Director: George A. Romero
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 50% from 5,585 members
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  • Cursed on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Christina Ricci,  Joshua Jackson,  Shannon Elizabeth
    Director: Wes Craven
    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..
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 2,204 members
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  • Scream 3 on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Courteney Cox,  David Arquette,  Neve Campbell
    Director: Wes Craven
    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: 3.0 60% from 2,782 members
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  • Scream 2 on DVD (1997)
    Starring: David Arquette,  Neve Campbell,  Courteney Cox
    Director: Wes Craven
    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: 3.0 64% from 2,800 members
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  • Scream on DVD (1996)
    Starring: David Arquette,  Neve Campbell,  Courteney Cox
    Director: Wes Craven
    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 71% from 4,027 members
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  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Robert Englund,  Heather Langenkamp,  Miko Hughes
    Director: Wes Craven
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 58% from 1,250 members
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  • Shocker on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Murphy,  Peter Berg,  Richard Brooks
    Director: Wes Craven
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 56% from 210 members
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  • The Serpent And The Rainbow on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Cathy Tyson
    Director: Wes Craven
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 246 members
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  • Deadly Friend (1986)
    Starring: Matthew Laborteaux,  Kristy Swanson,  Michael Sharrett
    Director: Wes Craven
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 52% from 15 members
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  • A Nightmare On Elm Street 1 on DVD (1984)
    Starring: John Saxon,  Johnny Depp,  Ronee Blakley
    Director: Wes Craven
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 69% from 3,172 members
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  • Swamp Thing on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Louis Jourdan,  Ray Wise,  Adrienne Barbeau
    Director: Wes Craven
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 49% from 111 members
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  • Summer Of Fear on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Linda Blair,  Jeremy Slate,  Jeff East
    Director: Wes Craven
    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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  • Last House On The Left (2 discs) on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Sandra Cassel,  David Hess,  Lucy Grantham
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: 18
    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 facts

5 most recent films


Diary of the Dead - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Diary of the Dead - 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


Deadly Blessing - 2.5 stars
Wes Craven's Chiller - 2.5 stars
Deadly Friend - 2.5 stars
Summer Of Fear - 2.0 stars
Last House On The Left - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Neve Campbell - 4 times - show films
Liev Schreiber - 4 times - show films
Courteney Cox - 4 times - show films
David Arquette - 4 times - show films
John Saxon - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors


George A. Romero - 2 times - show films
Jeff McQueen - 1 times - show films
Paul L - 1 times - show films
Joe Dante - 1 times - show films
William Friedkin - 1 times - show films