Wes Craven

What was that? DeNyce thought as she shivered in the tent. It was chilly that night, but not enough to make you genuinely shiver. The blood-curdling scream she’d heard came from the broken-down, spooky house that her friends were in. [at least she thought] Were the rumours true that Nancy had said? No, DeNyce consoled herself, Ghosts aren’t real. She didn’t want to say anything to make her presence known to whoever or whatever was there! Wait a minute, it’s 12:01 a.m! It’s my birthday! DeNyce thought

An auteur is a director of film who has a signature style. Wes Craven is a famous auteur whose style can be described as truthful, psychological, uncanny, timely, and containing minor comedic elements. Above all else, Wes Craven captures horrors of real life in a way that disturbs audiences long after they see his films. Wesley Earl Craven, a true horror evoking artist, was born on August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Britannica) Craven was raised in a rigid fundamentalist family. Due to his Baptist

Neuendorf COM 320 History of Film October 15, 2015 The Influences of Alfred Hitchcock on Wes Craven By Nicholas Storm The Horror Genre?s contemporaries today include Eli Roth, John Carpenter, George Romero and Clive Barker to name a few but the most notable above them all, with more contributions out of any other director was Wes Craven. With a plethora of films he has created, Craven is most known for 3 in particular for helping redefine the horror genre, in particular, ?The Last

Wesley "Wes" Earl Craven, the notable American film director, writer, producer, and actor, who was best known for his contributions to the horror genre, more particularly with colorful slasher films died at his home on August 30, 2015 in Los Angeles, California after a long-standing battle with brain cancer. Mr. Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio on August 2, 1939, and grew up in a strictly religious Baptist family. Craven stated of his upbringing in 1984, ”As fundamentalist Baptists, we were sequestered

Wes Craven was a writer, director, producer, and he was known for his innovative work on horror films that showed his creative imagination through his work. During his career, Craven won nine cinematic awards and received three nominations. His films, Scream, The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, and A Nightmare on Elm Street reinvented the horror genre today. His films didn't show ghosts or monsters, it showed the nightmare of real-life violence. Throughout Wes Craven’s career, he took

with brain cancer, Wes Craven, one of the most influential directors in the past four decades, passed away on August 30 at the age of 76. Though Craven has passed on, the work he has done will forever be a mark left on history, especially the beloved movies he helped create that strengthened the horror genre when others thought it was dead. In order to honor the memory of Mr. Craven, we here at RATS Magazine have established a list of some of our favorite movies that Wes Craven has directed, written

Freddy Krueger was written as a child molester. Actor Robert Englund recalls: “Wes [Craven] wrote the most evil, corrupt thing he could think of. Originally, that meant Freddy was a child molester. Right while we were shooting... there was a huge scandal based around an area of single parent yuppies in California known as South Bay. Child molesters had descended on this unsupervised flotsam of…children. On the spot we changed the script from child molester to child murderer,

importantly, why do we enjoy these blood-stained images of gratuitous violence? As far as I’m concerned, it’s because that’s just entertaining for some people, myself included, who don’t mind a good decapitation or disembowelment every once in awhile. This raises the question though, what makes me different from someone who can’t stand these movies?First, I thought that the most important question was, why do people watch horror movies? Many people do

Ballora is one of the seven animatronics (twelve if the Custom Night animatronics are counted) in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location. She is the entertainer from her own gallery room, which is located from the west of Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental. Appearance “ FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S Graphic designed dancer, Ballora with blue accents, and purple tuto. ” — Scott Cawthon's page, "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)"[1] Out of all animatronics in the series, Ballora is likely the

though they know they will regret it shortly after. Often times these films or even TV shows leave a lasting impact on a person emotionally, an impact that can stay with someone way after the two hour movie is complete. Us as humans like to believe that we are stronger than the film and it is simply just acting but often times that is not the case. In films similar to Nightmare on Elm Street, Child’s Play, Cabin in the Wood, and The Exorcist, the audience is suppose to receive a reaction that is almost