Biography: Wes Craven |

One of the horror genre's best-known and most celebrated directors, Wes Craven has been widely credited with reinventing the een horror movie. Initially gaining fame and notoriety for his Nightmare on Elm Street series in the 1980s, Craven enjoyed a... more
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Tags: Slasher Film Thriller 
Length: min
A notorious serial killer uses his dying breath to place a deadly curse on a small town in this shocker from legendary horror director Wes Craven (Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street). It's been 16 years since the maniac who terrorized Riverton met his...

Cast: Ethan Coen Gérard Depardieu   
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama 
Length: 120min
Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je T'Aime features 18 short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two...

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX (2008)
Tags: Visual Arts Film, TV & Radio Graphic & Applied Arts 
Length: 60min
Ever since the days of Lon Chaney, Sr. special effects make-up has played a crucial role in the history of motion picture cinema. Produced by Starz Inside, this revealing documentary explores the history of special effects make-up through classic...

Tags: Horror Teen Movie Creature Film 
Length: 97min
The team behind the Scream trilogy, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, present another entry in the teen-horror genre with Cursed. Starring Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg, the film tells the story of two siblings who have to...

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
Cast: Steven Spielberg Quentin Tarantino George Lucas Ridley Scott Martin Scorsese James Cameron Jodie Foster Jerry Bruckheimer 
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 
Length: 97min
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Editing teaches the viewer how editors compile strips of film in order to create memorable moviegoing experiences. In addition to interviews with a variety of respected and award-winning editors, the movie offers clips...

Cast: Wes Craven   
Tags: Romance Romantic Fantasy 
Length: 5min
Master of horror Wes Craven offers a lighter and more whimsical take on the supernatural in this short film, which transpires in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery. It concerns a young man who receives romantic advice from a most unexpected source. Part of...

Cast: John Carpenter Tom Savini George A. Romero   
Tags: Media Studies Film & Television History Politics & Government Film, TV & Radio Social History History 
Length: 73min
In the late '60s, the tone of American horror films began to shift in the wake of the startling success of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead -- horror films became gorier, bleaker, and began to subtly reflect the political and social...

Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 85min
Terror rides the night skies in this hriller from horror auteur Wes Craven. Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is a young woman with more than her share of anxieties about flying. However, when circumstances demand she go to Miami, she gathers her nerves...

Cast: Meryl Streep   
Tags: Message Movie Drama Urban Drama Inspirational Drama 
Length: 124min
After devoting his career to such horror films as Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Last House on the Left, director Wes Craven makes a dramatic change of pace with this inspiring drama about a teacher who helps change the lives of her students....

Tags: Horror Teen Movie Slasher Film 
Length: 116min
Wes Craven's Scream (1996) was a half-parody/half-tribute to the first wave of slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s, and since most of them spawned a large number of sequels, it's only appropriate that Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson produced...




























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