| Title | Wes Craven Dead at 76 | |
| Date | Monday August 31 2015, @05:57PM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the the-horrors! dept. | ||
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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