Famous for his teen-slashers and gory, humour-laden films, Wes Craven has left this earth having set – then revised – horror film conventionWes Craven, Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director, dies at 76Craven’s life and career – in picturesTake any of the most famous conversations from the first three Scream movies – ones where a sycophantic movie geek explains the “rules” of the slasher genre – and they feel very much like the voice of a film-maker who has “seen it all before”.It says something of the ethos of professional scaremonger Wes Craven that he directed the Scream films, not as a fresh-blooded video store-raised hotshot – a Quentin Tarantino or a Kevin Smith – but as a veteran who once made the very kind of genre films he was deconstructing.
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