Craven's final film was Scream 4 (2011). Based the story of ''A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)'' on a news report about a group of young men who died in their sleep during horrific nightmares despite having no history of health problems and showing no specific cause of death. Rumoured to have named his onscreen horror creation Freddy Kruger for a boy who used to bully him in high school. You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. This scared him, so, later on, he decided this will be the look for Freddy. Find Wes Craven's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. Craven reinvented the youth horror genre again in 1984 with the classic A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), a film he wrote and directed. The Serpent and the Rainbow portrays a man who cannot distinguish between nightmarish visions and reality. Wes Craven has been died on Aug 30, 2015 (age 76). It was something that I was really drawn to. - IMDb Mini Biography By: [15] Scream included a scene mentioning an urban legend about Richard Gere and a sex act involving a hamster. [on horror films in general] I think they can work two ways. 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Craven was responsible for Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and many other horror classics. Craven's first marriage, to Bonnie Broecker, produced two children: Jonathan Craven (born 1965) and Jessica Craven (born 1968). While casting A Nightmare on Elm Street, Craven discovered the then unknown Johnny Depp. Recent works include the 2005 psychological thriller Red Eye (2005), and a short rom-com segment for the ensemble product, Paris, je t'aime (2006).In later years, Craven also produced remakes of two of his earlier films for his genre fans, The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and The Last House on the Left (2009). 34 records for Wes Craven. For me with all this stuff, both the horror films and thrillers like this, the most interesting thing is what goes on inside people's heads. I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. Send Text Message Print. It's not the time for confections. Filmmaker Wes Craven was the creator of the horror film franchises A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. I believe it's good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear. But in the long view, I'm not so sure anymore what the hell it all means. Between Scream 2 and Scream 3 (2000), Craven, offered the opportunity to direct a non-genre film for Miramax, helmed Music of the Heart (1999), a film that earned Meryl Streep an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Certainly the deepest horror, as far as I'm concerned, is what happens to your body at your own hands and others. Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision. His star sign was Leo. Date of Birth: August 2, 1939. [17], Craven created Coming of Rage, a five-issue comic book series, with 30 Days of Night writer Steve Niles. The world lost one of it's premiere scare masters this week when filmmaker and writer Wes Craven passed away at the age of 76. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars. I think sometimes you might expect or want greater recognition. Everything is so short-term, so dependent on the whim of public taste and business things you have no control over, like how the economy is going, and how well your film is distributed, or what ad campaign they come up with, or even what the title is. The marriage ended in 1970. The Italian Production Chart section of Variety, July 9, 1980, announced filming to start on August 18, 1980, of the film "Marimba" to be directed by Wes Craven, with cast Dirk Benedict, Tim McIntire, Chris Mitchum, to be filmed in Columbia and the US. He said, 'You're a fundamentalist, you must have demons rattling around. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence. Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Caroline (née Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. Erica Sterne fathertimethemovie@gmail.com, Other Works [20], Craven had a hand in launching actor Johnny Depp's career by casting him in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Depp's first major film role. Wes Craven 2020 - Biography at Wikipedia (Wiki, Age, Birthday) Wes Craven - actor, director, scriptwriter Wes Craven was born on August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States [citation needed] Later, in Craven's best-known film, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Cunningham directed one of the chase scenes, although he was not credited. Wes Craven, in full Wesley Earl Craven, (born August 2, 1939, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died August 30, 2015, Los Angeles, California), American director and screenwriter who was known for his horror films, several of which were classics of the genre. And I think right now, with the post-9-11 world and Iraq, creative people are almost being goaded to look at things in the strongest way possible. [33] Craven was an atheist. He was known for his pioneering work[1][2][3] in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor and satire. See Wes Craven's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. In 1976 he acted in "Tales That Will Tear Your Heart Out," a project being made under the supervision of friend. "If we don't get out of Iraq soon, it'll be like A Nightmare on Elm Street" (April 2007). Wes Craven Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Wes Craven photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! He is the only person to direct more than one film in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise: His ex-wife went on to marry Tom Chapin, who is a Grammy winning singer songwriter as well as the brother of Harry Chapin, who was also a Grammy winner (for the single "Cat's In The Cradle", 1974). NEWS: Wes Craven, the prolific writer-director who startled audiences with iconic suburban slashers such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, has died at age 76. [15] Jessica was a singer-songwriter in the group the Chapin Sisters. He had an undergraduate degree in English and psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois and a master's degree in philosophy and writing from Johns Hopkins University. "[18] Ultimately the movie was screened much more widely than he assumed, leaving him ostracized due to the content of the film. Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences ... Born: August 2, 1939 Died: August 30, 2015 (age 76) In retrospect, it's usually pretty easy to look at horror movies and see the influences of the time. He is best known for creating the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (1984–2010), featuring the characters Freddy Krueger and Nancy Thompson, and the Scream franchise (1996–2011), featuring Ghostface and Sidney Prescott. They have also lived in Walterboro, SC and Green Pond, SC. And being the exploitative bastard that I am as a director, I said "do you mind if we use that?". in writing and philosophy from Johns … [19] The resulting film, The Hills Have Eyes, cemented Craven as a "horror film director" with Craven noting "It soon became clear that I wasn't going to do anything else unless it was scary". And also kind of soap opera-ish. [21], Although known for directing horror/thriller films, he had worked on two films which are outside this genre: Music of the Heart (1999), and as one of the 22 directors responsible for Paris, je t'aime (2006). They're a very thin slice of me. [32] His favorite films included Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Virgin Spring (1960) and Red River (1948). He was 76. Due to the success and cultural impact of his works, Craven has been called a "Master of Horror". Wes Craven is a horror film director, screenwriter and producer known for projects like Swamp Thing, Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream series. [on how he got Drew Barrymore to look scared and crying in Scream] Drew Barrymore told me a story of a boy who tortured his...I think it was his dog, with a lighter and it set it on fire and she burst into tears. Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American filmmaker, actor, and novelist. [17] Craven's first feature film as director was The Last House on the Left, which was released in 1972. His vision of Freddy Kruger came from a childhood memory. [25] Craven stated in interviews that he received calls from agents telling him that if he left that scene in, he would never work again. Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American filmmaker, actor, and novelist. This concept was emphasized in the sequels, as copycat stalkers re-enact the events of a new film about the Woodsboro killings (Woodsboro being the fictional town where Scream is set) occurring in Scream. he was born on 02 Aug 1939 Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Her Father Name Not Know And Mather name Not Know, Wes Craven is an American Actor in United States, Wes Craven age 80 years 7 months 1 days , and Nationality American, 5 Feet 10 Inches … If you go back to those guys like [Federico] Fellini and [Luis] Buñuel, talking about really profound things. Wes Craven Net Worth According to Trend Celeb Now, Wes Craven's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & much more details has been updated below. That same year, in the midst of directing, Craven completed his first novel, "The Fountain Society," published by Simon & Shuster. [22], Craven's works tend to share a common exploration of the nature of reality. [16], Craven left the academic world for the more lucrative role of pornographic film director. If you look at the Academy Awards [movies], those are films about real issues. Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision.Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Caroline (Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. What you want to do is you want to put your audience off-balance. When his friend Steve Chapin informed him of a messenger position at a New York City film production co, where his brother, future folk-rock star Harry Chapin worked. Though he was raised a Baptist by his fundamentalist, faith-based mother, Craven later became a staunch Atheist. Craven has always had an eye for discovering fresh talent, something that contributes to the success of his films. Craven again exhibited his knack for spotting important talent, with a cast of young actors bringing us a totally new breed of Woodsboro high schoolers, including Emma Robert and Hayden Pannetierre. 151479035, citing Lambert's Cove Cemetery, West Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave . Craven earned an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) in 1963 and went on to earn an M.A. The horrors of retirement. Now, I don't know whether you can get a big audience with films that abstruse, but you can in horror if you scare the shit out of them about every eight minutes. [15] Craven expected the film to be shown at only a few theaters, which according to him "gave me a freedom to be outrageous, and to go into areas that normally I wouldn't have gone into, and not worry about my family hearing about it, or being crushed. [on A nightmare on Elm Street having sequels] I thought they'll never be a sequel. The film marked Craven's first collaboration with wife and producer Iya Labunka, who also produced with him the highly anticipated production of Scream 4.Craven's Scream 4 (2011) reunited the director with Dimension Films and Kevin Williamson, as well as with stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, to re-boot the beloved franchise. Later, in The Last House on the Left remake (2009), Cunningham and Craven share production credits. Nuts and bolts! His father died when he was four years old. Profiled in "Hollywood Horror from the Director's Chair: Six Filmmakers in the Franchise of Fear" by Simon Wilkinson (McFarland, 2008). [22] The series was released in digital form in 2014 by Liquid Comics with a print edition scheduled for an October 2015 debut. In a statement, Craven… But to me it's a little like how French Impressionists felt about formal recognition. Horror movies have to show us something that hasn't been shown before so that the audience is completely taken aback. I said 'I've never seen one.' [19], Craven frequently collaborated with Sean S. Cunningham. His impact on the genre was considered prolific and highly influential. WES CRAVEN. He nearly turned down the option to direct the hit, Directed a documentary about former president. His mother's judgmental influence caused him to be too terrified to talk to a girl until he was at college and lead him to marry, in his opinion, too young, and arguably contributed to the angry, bleak themes of his early films. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door. Wes is related to Shawn Craven and Mary A Craven as well as 3 additional people. If I were interested in reality, I'd be making documentaries. In 1982, Craven married a woman who became known professionally as actress Mimi Craven. Much of the book has been written around a single interview between Wooley and Craven (early attention is given to Craven's overly religious childhood and, at one point, Craven compares Baptists to vacuum salesmen). While his role in Deep Throat is undisclosed, most of his early known work involved writing, film editing, or both. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. Cox, 56, took a moment on Instagram to remember Craven, who died in 2015 at age 76 and was known for his horror classics like Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Hills Have Eyes. As a young man Craven attended Wheaton College, where he majored in English, and later graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a Psychology degree. [41], Throughout his career, Craven was nominated for and won numerous awards, including multiple Saturn Awards and several film festival honors. |  1969) ( divorced) ( 2 children). [on his 1996 movie Scream] It's almost on a comic book level as far as the danger. In real life, human beings are packaged in the flimsiest of packages, threatened by real and sometimes horrifying dangers, events like Columbine. They release it. [24], In Scream, the characters frequently reference horror films similar to their situations, and at one point, Billy Loomis tells his girlfriend that life is just a big movie. [17], Craven designed the Halloween 2008 logo for Google[28] and was the second celebrity personality to take over the YouTube homepage on Halloween. [15] He additionally taught at Madrid-Waddington High School in Madrid, New York. He was a teacher and University professor before he began film making. His first feature film was The Last House on the Left (1972), which he wrote, directed, and edited. [13] Craven earned an undergraduate degree in English and psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois and a master's degree in philosophy and writing from Johns Hopkins University. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. He taught me the Chapin method [of editing]: 'Nuts and bolts! Wes Cravenwas born on August 2, 1935, in Cleveland, Ohio. Craven moved into the building where his friend Steve Chapin lived at 136 Hicks St. in Brooklyn Heights. 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Craven later cast Sharon Stone in her first starring role for his film Deadly Blessing. [16] During this time, he purchased a used 16 mm film camera and began making short movies. FB Tweet. [11][12] He was raised in a strict Baptist family. And though he did not direct any of its five sequels, he deconstructed the genre a decade later, writing and directing the audacious Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), which was nominated as Best Feature at the 1995 Independent Spirit Awards, and introduced the concept of self-reflexive genre films to the world.In 1996 Craven reached a new level of success with the release of Scream (1996). Filmmaker . Get rid of the shit!'" It's harrowing. His parents were strictly religious and discouraged him from watching movies on television. These are scarier than any horror movie I can dream up. Trained in the humanities, he stumbled into filmmaking and became Hollywood’s high priest of horror. [18], After the negative experience of Last House, Craven attempted to move out of the horror genre, and began writing non-horror films with his partner Sean S. Cunningham, none of which attracted any financial backing. His parents were Caroline and Paul Eugene Craven. The film, which sparked the phenomenal trilogy, was the winner of MTV's 1996 Best Movie Award and grossed more than $100 million domestically, as did Scream 2 (1997). Horror films are not me, or they're not all of me. They pooled all of their resources and came up with $90,000. He spent his early career making pornographic films under fake names. His other notable films include The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Swamp Thing (1982), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Shocker (1989), The People Under the Stairs (1991), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Music of the Heart (1999), and Red Eye (2005). "The" Elm Street is located in Potsdam, NY (a small town just south of the Canadian border). He was allowed to watch Disney cartoons, however. [March 2006]. It gives us a way of thinking rationally about our fears.". I don't know if I'd like that. Wes Craven … [45] In 1997, the Gérardmer Film Festival granted him the Grand Prize for the slasher film Scream. 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. One of the horror genre's best-known and most celebrated directors, Wes Craven was widely credited with reinventing the teen horror movie. The second best result is Wes Craven age 40s in Beaufort, SC in the Royal Pines neighborhood. [15] Their characters, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, appeared together in the slasher film Freddy vs. Jason (2003) with Cunningham acting as producer, while screenwriter Victor Miller is credited as "Character Creator". You see, it's not just that people want to be scared; people are scared. [29], Craven had a letter published in the July 19, 1968, edition of Life, praising that periodical's coverage of contemporary rock music, in particular Frank Zappa's.[30]. And the reason they do that is they've never seen anything like it. He was 76. Authored newspaper article about his current, off-the-set downtime entitled "Retirement: Scarier Than Freddy Krueger" in NYTimes. He even gave Bruce Willis his first featured role in an episode of TV's mid-80's edition of The Twilight Zone. Wes Craven, the famed maestro of horror known for the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream franchises, died Sunday after a battle with brain cancer. The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes), Children in his films are often deformed or brutally murdered, often by the main villain, Often features himself in his own films, even if uncredited, In contrast to the brutal, violent content of most of his films, he was renown for his calm, soft-spoken demeanor. It seems like all the powerful people on earth just want to build condos and knock down all the trees... As somebody once said with wonderful succinctness, the golf course is man's boot on the neck of nature. Wes Craven talking about his feature debut as a writer-director, "Last House on the Left" (1972): "The way I was raised, which was basically as a law-abiding, Bible-following person, a lot of the rage and wildness is kept out from your conscious mind," Mr. Craven says. [44], In 1977, Craven won the critics award at the Sitges Film Festival for his horror film The Hills Have Eyes. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wes Craven earned a B.A. Wes Craven died in August 2015 at the age of 76 By Alexia Fernández. I think there is something about the American dream, the sort of Disneyesque dream, if you will, of the beautifully trimmed front lawn, the white picket fence, mom and dad and their happy children, God-fearing and doing good whenever they can, and the flip side of it, the kind of anger and the sense of outrage that comes from discovering that that's not the truth of the matter, that gives American horror films, in some ways, kind of an additional rage. A college teacher with a graduate degree in Philosophy, he changed careers in the late 1960s and became a production assistant in film. He later served as an executive producer on the MTV spin-off series of the same name, which debuted in 2015, shortly before he died of brain cancer at age 76. No evidence the film was ever completed or released. 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