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Wes Craven

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

 
Last House on the Left, TheLast House on the Left, The (1972)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess
Formerly banned in NZ and in many countries around the world, this disturbing film lives up to its notoriety with its documentary–like realism…
Hills Have Eyes, TheHills Have Eyes, The (1977) Recommended
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer
Wes Craven takes the townies–breakdown–in–the–desert chestnut to its logical extreme, where it turns out the hills also have…
Summer of FearSummer of Fear (Stranger in the House) (1978)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate
One of dir. Wes Craven's early commercial successes (initially a telemovie), sees teenager Linda Blair suffer the perils of occult forces in suburban…
Deadly BlessingDeadly Blessing (1981)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Ernest Borgnine
Blacklisted by a quasi–Amish farming community for marrying one of their own, city girl Martha (Jensen) and her two college friends fend off…
Swamp ThingSwamp Thing (1982)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise
Wes Craven's tongue–in–cheek film version of a popular D.C. comic book character, makes no apology for its cheesy make–up and…
Nightmare On Elm Street, ANightmare On Elm Street, A (1984) Recommended
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp
The maiden nightmare of the razor–fingered dream–demon Freddie Krueger, who went on to become the pre–eminent horror icon of the…
Twilight Zone, The (TV Series)Twilight Zone, The (TV Series) (1985) Recommended
Dir. Wes Craven, Tommy Lee Wallace, Robert Downey Snr.
Feat. Bruce Willis, Eric Bogosian, Amy Irving
A solid if variable 1980's reprise of Rod Serling's iconic series of off–beat fantasy stories. Also available; "Lost Classics" (1994),…
Hills Have Eyes 2, TheHills Have Eyes 2, The (1985)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Tamara Stafford, Kevin Spirtas, Michael Berryman
Revisiting the same mutant–inhabited desert terrain of the original, this has a band of motorcross enthusiasts raise the appetite of the same…
Chiller Chiller (1985)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Paul Sorvino, Beatrice Straight, Dick O'Neill
Wes Craven's follow–up to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, is a detached thriller about an entrepreneur who requests to be frozen and…
Serpent and the Rainbow, TheSerpent and the Rainbow, The (1988)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae
Based on an apparently true story of a man's nightmare journey to into the eerie world of voodoo. Filmed on location in Haiti and scarier for it.
ShockerShocker (1990)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Michael Murphy, Peter Berg
Horace Pinker, a psychotic TV repair man meets his maker on death row...or has he? A frenetic mix of coal black humour and graphic violence from the…
People Under the Stairs, ThePeople Under the Stairs, The (1991)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie
A young boy breaks into a mansion to find the householder's have a penchant for young meat. Craven's most inspired work since 'Nightmare on Elm…
Wes Craven's New NightmareWes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) Recommended
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes
Ingenious post–script to the tired NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. franchise in which castmembers of the previous films (playing themselves), too, become…
Vampire in BrooklynVampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett
Eddie Murphy and the ever–dynamic Angela Bassett team up for horror specialist Wes Craven, who injects a mix of comedy and gothic romance into…
ScreamScream (1996) Aro Favourite
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich
The horror genre gets a long overdue (if tongue–in–cheek) revamp but you needn't be an aficionado to experience the thrill of this…
Scream 2Scream 2 (1997)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
Neve Campbell and friends get revisited by another round of cell–phone threats, masked stalkers and spotty, self–referential…
Music of the HeartMusic of the Heart (1999)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep crafts potentially saccharine material into a credible drama, playing an real–life violin teacher who founded a series of…
Scream 3Scream 3 (2000)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
Less comic than before but otherwise it's more ironic psycho–trouble on the Woodsboro lot for regulars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David…
American Nightmare, TheAmerican Nightmare, The (2000) Recommended
Dir. Adam Simon
Feat. Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter
A searching examination of the American horror films of the late 1960s and 1970s, in which the paranoia of the times was reflected in some intense…
CursedCursed (2005)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Portia de Rossi
Two siblings (Ricci, Eisenberg) are bitten and infected by a werewolf on the loose in their manicured Los Angeles suburb. Discovering that…
Red EyeRed Eye (2005) Recommended
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
Dir. Wes Craven whittles a lean, claustrophobic thriller around the plight of a woman (McAdams), menaced onboard of short–haul plane flight by…
Paris, Je T'aimeParis, Je T'aime (Paris, I Love You) (2006) Recommended
Dir. Olivier Assayas, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi
A prestige line–up of actors and filmmakers converge in this grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance. With each vignette…
My Soul to Take My Soul to Take (2010)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Max Thieriot, Zena Grey, John Magaro
Mildly scary horror from Wes Craven in which a serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date…
Scream 4Scream 4 (2011)
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
Ghostface is back in this series 'reboot', with Campbell returning to the unfortunate town of Woodsboro and bringing with her more…

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