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Birth Name: Wesley Earl Craven

Born: 2 August 1939 Died: 30 August 2015

Country of origin: United States

Height: 6' 2"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Iya Labunka

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Directors:The Filmography of... (207 items)
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Published 14 years, 3 months ago

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Gone, but not forgotten (1954 items)
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Published 7 months, 1 week ago

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The -\\\- of -///- (22 items)
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Published 13 years, 8 months ago

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Film celebrities on Twitter. (84 items)
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Published 14 years, 2 months ago

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Rest in Peace (486 items)
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Published 14 years ago

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Wes Craven Videos

Top 10 Best Wes Craven Movies

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Wes Craven on Scream and the Horror Genre

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Description: One of the horror genre's best-known and most celebrated directors, Wes Craven was widely credited with reinventing the teen horror movie. Initially gaining fame and notoriety for his Nightmare on Elm Street series in the 1980s, Craven enjoyed a second wave of popularity in the 1990s with his phenomenally successful Scream series, which spoofed the teen horror genre even as they revived it. The films kicked off a trend in teen horror films, inspiring any number of imitators that, for the most part, failed to live up to Craven's own work. A product of a strict Baptist upbringing in Cleveland, OH, Craven received a B.A. in Psyc ... (more)

Tags: Director (7), Born 1939 (4), Died 2015 (4), Horror (4), American (3), Nightmare On Elm Street (2), Red Eye (2), Scream (2), Producer (2), Gaffer (1), Deceased (1), Cinematographer (1), Horror Director (1), Advisor (1), Horror Icon (1), Cursed (1), Brain Cancer (1), Buckeye (1), Last House On The Left (1)

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1. Scream (1996)

Rating:

6.6

3339 Watched

2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Rating:

7.2

2651 Watched

3. Scream 2 (1997)

Rating:

5.7

2125 Watched

4. Scream 3

Rating:

5.1

1733 Watched

5. Paris, I Love You (2006)

Rating:

7.3

991 Watched

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1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Rating:

7.2

2651 Watched

2. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Rating:

1340 Watched

3. Paris, I Love You (2006)

Rating:

7.3

991 Watched

4. Freddy vs. Jason (2003) (2003)

Rating:

5.3

1314 Watched

5. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Rating:

5.2

1033 Watched

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Movies

Most popular

Top rated

Most recent

1. Scream (1996)

Rating:

6.6

3339 Watched

2. Scream 2 (1997)

Rating:

5.7

2125 Watched

3. Scream 3

Rating:

5.1

1733 Watched

4. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Rating:

6.4

1473 Watched

5. Paris, I Love You (2006)

Rating:

7.3

991 Watched

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TV

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1. The Daily Show (1996)

Rating:

7.6

1155 Watched

2. Castle (2009)

Rating:

7.7

761 Watched

3. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)

Rating:

7.5

682 Watched

4. Boston Legal

Rating:

7.2

422 Watched

5. The Twilight Zone (1985)

Rating:

7.5

328 Watched

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1. The Twilight Zone (1985)

Rating:

7.5

328 Watched

2. Summer of Fear

Rating:

5.6

23 Watched

3. Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954)

Rating:

8.8

28 Watched

4. Nightmare Cafe

Rating:

7.3

5 want to see

5. Night Visions

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4 want to see

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1. Freddy's Nightmares (1988)

Rating:

6.8

39 Watched

2. Nightmare Cafe

Rating:

7.3

5 want to see

3. Night Visions

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4 want to see

Books

1. The Fountain Society

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Music

1. Last House on the Left (2013)

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The Big Names of Horror (57 person items)

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Wes Craven on Scream and the Horror Genre

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Favourite Directors (98 person items)

"Favourite films: Scream 2, Scream 4, Swamp Thing, Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Red Eye, The People Under the Stairs, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and Wes Craven’s A Nee Nightmare "