An icon has passed away.
I’m on vacation. This is not what I needed. I turn on my phone only to have half the world text me about the passing of Wes Craven.
The horror genre has much to owe to Craven and his earlier work. His first film The Last House on the Left remains a cult classic and pretty much defined his niche. Next up was The Hill’s Have Eye’s, which is my favourite Craven film. But it was the Nightmare on Elm Street that shot Craven into the horror stratosphere and gave us Freddy Kruger, one of the most iconic film characters of all time.
He also did one of the first comic book films which was the under appreciated Swamp Thing, took a stab at comedy with the horrible Eddie Murphy movie Vampire in Brooklyn (his worst film), and drama, the oscar nominated Music of the Heart.
But horror is where his heart lied and he gave us three ( out of four) entertaining slasher flicks within the Scream franchise. Talk about deconstructing your own genre; he took the ideology of the horror genre and took it apart piece by piece. He tried to do the same with the werewolf genre with Cursed but that was a studio interfered hack job that could’ve have been great. But the bad taste in his mouth led him to the tension filled Red Eye which proves that Craven’s talent was no fluke.
Really sad news today. No more Wes Craven films.
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