Wes Craven

The Last House on the Left (1972)

The Last House on the Left (1972)
Rating: ★★★★
May 1, 2001Sadism and Revenge
Wes Craven's first film, a savage shock to the system about a group of psychopaths that brutalise two girls. With this, Craven created the Backwoods Brutality film and many works that followed showed the 60s Flower Children being tortured and killed; this is still one of the best of the cycle
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Rating: ★★★★
Sep 5, 2002Dream-Invading Boogey Man
One of the most influential horror films of the 1980s, creating a series of dream horror copycats. Before the campy, makeup effects driven sequels kicked in, Wes Craven's original creates a genuinely unearthly series of nightmare jumps
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A Nightmare on Elm Street III: The Dream Warriors (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street III: The Dream Warriors (1987)
Rating: ★★
Jul 29, 2002Dream-Invading Boogey Man
The point where the A Nightmare on Elm Street series became what everyone remembers, where Robert Englund's Freddy went from a boogeyman into the equivalent of Wile E. Coyote in a Road Runner cartoon, popping up like a malevolent jack-in-a-box to quip a one-liner and dispatch victims in a display of makeup effects virtuosity
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Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 16, 2002Meta-Fictional A Nightmare on Elm Street Sequel
Seventh of the A Nightmare on Elm Street films where Wes Craven returns to direct the most remarkable of all the sequels, an extraordinary meta-fiction that takes place in the real world
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Scream (1996)

Scream (1996)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 16, 2005Slasher Movie Parody/Deconstruction
Wes Craven and scriptwriter Kevin Williamson make a witty homage to the 1980s slasher film, turning the genre on its head by having the characters perfectly aware they are in a horror film and knowledgeable of the genre's cliches
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Scream 2 (1997)

Scream 2 (1997)
Rating: ★★½
Nov 5, 2000Slasher Sequel Parody/Deconstruction
Wes Craven’s Scream was a clever and witty homage to/deconstruction of the slasher film of the 1980s; for the sequel, he and Kevin Williamson naturally turn to deconstructing the slasher sequel with expectedly witty if slightly lesser results
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Scream 3 (2000)

Scream 3 (2000)
Rating: ★★
Feb 16, 2000Slasher Sequel Parody/Deconstruction
Wes Craven’s Scream was a witty parody/deconstruction of the 1980s slasher film but by the time of this third entry and the departure of screenwriter Kevin Williamson creativity seems to be flagging even though this has critic-proofed itself enough by calling itself a parody of a sequel
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