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Wes Craven Director Study:

Wes Craven is an American director and writer, known for creating some of the most famous horror films of all time. His successful films include the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series, the “Scream” series; The Hills have Eyes, The Last House on the Left and Red Eye.
After working as a teacher and a taxi driver, Craven became a sound editor in New York. After co-directing a few films, Craven made the horror film “The Last House on the Left”, released in 1972 which was a big success. His second film “The Hills have Eyes” also won a critic’s prize at the Sitges Festival. Craven then went on to produce may other projects and in 1984 he released his best known work by directing and writing “A Nightmare on Elm Street”. After many moderate successes (mainly sequels to earlier films) he then created and directed the hit film “Scream” and its successful sequels. However, after “Scream”,
Craven moved away from directing just “pure horror” films and made the drama/musical “Music of the heart”. Ever since then all of Craven’s films, even the horror films, have a slight twist in them that incorporates some other genres. For example in 2005, Craven directed the hit Thriller “Red Eye”. The film starts off like it is romantic comedy yet it soon turns into a thriller/horror.
As for the future, Wes Craven is currently “in development” of 3 films after a 4 year break so it seems we will be seeing some of his work in the near future.