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Wes Craven, Horror Maestro, Dies at 76
He directed 'Scream' and the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' films.
Wes Craven, the famed writer-director of horror films known for the Nightmare
on Elm Street and Scream movies, died Sunday after a battle with brain
cancer. He was 76.
Craven, whose iconic Freddy Krueger character horrified viewers for years,
died at his home in Los Angeles, his family announced.
Craven claimed to have gotten the idea for Elm Street when living next to a
cemetery on a street of that name when growing up in the suburbs of
Cleveland. His five Nightmare on Elm Street films were released from 1984-89.
Similarly, Craven's Scream series was a box-office sensation. In those
scare-'em-ups, he spoofed the teen horror genre. The movies frequently
referenced other horror movies.
Craven’s first feature film was The Last House of the Left, which he wrote,
directed and edited in 1972.
Here invented the youth horror genre again in 1984 with the classic A
Nightmare on Elm Street, which he wrote and directed. He conceived and
co-wrote Elm Street III as well, and then after not being involved with the
three more sequels, deconstructed the genre a decade after the original,
writing and directing Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, which was nominated as
best feature at the 1995 Spirit Awards.
Wes Craven 周日因腦癌過世，享壽 76 歲
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