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Craven, Wes was born on August 2, 1939 in Cleveland.
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Alice tries to prevent Freddy, a monstrous mass murderer, from possessing the soul of her unborn child. Sequel to "The Dream Master."
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Freddy, a monstrous mass murderer, makes his last appearance in the dreams of the teenagers he stalks. Sequel to "The Dream Child."
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Freddy Krueger returns, scarier than ever, in an all-new movie written and directed by Wes Craven, creator of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Wes Craven thought he was through with Freddy Krueger, until the cast and crew of the original film find themselves stalked by the deadly supernatural force. Movie to be released in time for Halloween.
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(Freddy Krueger returns, scarier than ever, in an all-new ...)
Freddy Krueger returns, scarier than ever, in an all-new movie written and directed by Wes Craven, creator of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Wes Craven thought he was through with Freddy Krueger, until the cast and crew of the original film find themselves stalked by the deadly supernatural force. Movie to be released in time for Halloween.
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Alice tries to prevent Freddy, a monstrous mass murderer, from possessing the soul of her unborn child. Sequel to "The Dream Master."
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Craven, Wes was born on August 2, 1939 in Cleveland.
Having studied philosophy at Johns Hopkins, he started to teach and then entered into filmmaking with Last House on the Left, a modernization of Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, with loathsome rape and murder scenes. Craven directed, wrote, and edited, but he has seldom shown a real interest in any of those things. His concern has been to shock, and to profit from it.
His commercial breakthrough came with Freddie Krueger and the Elm Street pictures, though Louis Jourdan in Swamp Thing more intriguing, largely because Jourdan is a grave, melancholy actor rarely fulfilled. But there have been times when Craven the academic has shown through in his ironic appreciation of family structure as an horrific thing in itself.
But over the years maybe the most odious thing about him is the postmodern self-reflection of Wes Craven 's New Nightmare and the Scream pictures, which amounts to a frenzied, disdainful redoubling of nastiness because no one really believes in it. That is a dreadful manipulation of his own audience, with a view to excusing him and letting him feel superior. He is not alone, of course: real academe has people who write learned treatises on the imagery in Wes Craven, people who might faint at a drop of blood, but who have learned to gaze through the revolting liny of his films and see tenure beckoning. And surely there are kids in the dark who have lost their sense of secure reality, too, who hardly know what to believe. They see the stabbings of Scream and struggle to reconcile them with the film’s “cool” pose. They are expected to share Mr. Cravens contempt, but they have less funding to help ensure that it stops short of self-contempt.
Meanwhile, having seen some kind of light, Mr. Craven can claim to be a reformed character: and so he splits his time between more Screaming and the prestige of Mervl Streep going to East Harlem to help deprived kids.
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Writer, editor, director (films) Last House on the Left, 1972, The Hills Have Eyes, 1977. 2d editor You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Loose That Beat, 1973. Director (films) Deadly Friend, 1986, The Serpent and the Rainbow, 1988, Vampire in Brooklyn, 1995, Music of the Heart, 1999, Cursed, 2005, Red Eye, 2005, (television films) A Stranger in Our House, 1978, Invitation to Hell, 1984, Chiller, 1985.Actor: (films) The Fear, 1995, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing, 2004, (voice) Diary of the Dead, 2008, (television films) Shadow Zone: The Undead Express, 1996. Actor, director: (films) Scream, 1996, Scream 2, 1997, Scream 3, 2000. Writer: (films) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, 1985, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, 1988, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, 1989, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, 1991, Freddy versus Jason, 2003, Pulse, 2006.Writer, director (films) Deadly Blessing, 1981, Swamp Thing, 1982, A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984. Writer, producer: (films) The Hills Have Eyes II, 2007. Writer, producer, director (films) My Soul to Take, 2009.Executive producer (films) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, 1987, Shocker, 1989, Night Visions, 1990, The People Under the Stairs, 1991, New Nightmare, 1994, The Outpost, 1995, Wishmaster, 1997, Carnival of Souls, 1998, Dracula 2000, Feast, 2005, (television films) Laurel Canyon, 1993, Don't Look Down, 1998, They Shoot Divas, Don't They?, 2002, (television series) Nightmare Cafe, 1992, Hollyweird, 1998, author: (novel) The Fountain Society.
Member Directors Guild American.
Married Bonnie Broecker, 1964 (divorced 1969). Children: Jonathan, Jessica. Married Mimi Craven, July 25, 1982 (divorced 1987).
Married Iya Labunka, November 27, 2004.