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Wes Craven Dead at 76

posted by martyb on Monday August 31 2015, @05:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-horrors! dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

I know it's not exactly a tech-related story but we do have a goodly bunch of people who grew up in the 80s here, so, here it is: Wes Craven died over the weekend.

Master of the modern horror film Wes Craven died on Sunday, his family announced. He was 76 and had battled brain cancer.

Craven, the artist behind “Nightmare on Elm Street,” the “Scream” movie series and many other modern horror masterpieces, remade the genre in contemporary film.

Craven reinvented the youth horror genre in 1984 with the classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a film he wrote and directed that starred a then-unknown Johnny Depp. He conceived and co-wrote “A Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors” as well.

Then after an absence of three more sequels, he deconstructed the genre a decade after the original, writing and directing the audacious “Wes Craven‘s New Nightmare,” which was nominated as Best Feature at the 1995 Independent Spirit Awards.

Gives me a sad. Wes Craven movies were some of the very few scary movies that were anything but "meh" to me.

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  • (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:40AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:40AM (#230556) Journal

    Definitely recommend The Babadook and Orphan. Quite a few on that list that are new to me, so thanks for throwing those out there. Just a little while now until Halloween!

    Let me also throw out there the Ju-on series [wikipedia.org] (spoiler alert).

    There's some crap produced by Sam Raimi as an attempt to Americanize the story, but I'd have to say it's one of the few things he's been involved with that's crap. The original Ju-on series succeeded with the creepypasta feel, while the first two Sam Raimi adaptations aren't bad but feel like they're just going through the motions. I have no idea WTF The Grudge 3 was. I just felt confused after watching it.

    See also “Ringu” [imdb.com] and contrast with the crap that is The Ring [imdb.com].

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:38AM (#230591)

    I tried to stick to english language films that were less than a decade old.

    If you like older asian horror, Tale of Two Sisters from Korea and Audition from Japan are top notch.