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Wes Craven

Highest Rated:
95% A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Lowest Rated:
0% Deadly Friend (1986)
Birthday:
Aug 2, 1939
Birthplace:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Bio:
One of the horror genre's best-known and most celebrated directors, Wes Craven has been 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…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 95%
Number of Movies: 47
Box Office Since 2001: $357.8M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 58% Scream 4
  • Director
$38.2M
2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
  • Actor
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2010 9% My Soul to Take
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
$14.6M
2009 42% The Last House on the Left
  • Producer
$32.7M
2008 Untitled Wes Craven Project
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
  • Producer
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2008 Starz Inside: Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
  • Actor
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2007 11% The Hills Have Eyes 2
  • Producer
$20.8M
2006 10% Pulse
  • Screenwriter
$20.2M
2006 56% Feast
  • Producer
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2006 49% The Hills Have Eyes
  • Producer
$41.7M
2006 Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
  • Actor
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2005 79% Red Eye
  • Director
$57.9M
2004 83% Inside Deep Throat
  • Actor
$0.5M
2004 16% Cursed
  • Director
$19.2M
2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
  • Actor
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2003 41% Freddy vs. Jason
  • Producer
$82.2M
2002 Boogeymen II: Masters of Horror
  • Actor
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2001 53% Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
  • Himself
$29.9M
2000 36% Scream 3
  • Director
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2000 67% The American Nightmare - A Celebration of Films from Hollywood's Golden Age of Fright
  • Actor
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1999 62% Music of the Heart
  • Director
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1998 20% Carnival of Souls
  • Producer
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1997 81% Scream 2
  • Director
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1996 Shadow Zone: The Undead Express
  • Actor
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1996 83% Scream
  • Director
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1995 The Fear
  • Dr. Arnold
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1995 10% Vampire in Brooklyn
  • Director
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1994 79% Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  • Director
  • Himself
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1993 60% Body Bags
  • Actor
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1991 56% The People Under The Stairs
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
  • Producer
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1989 8% Shocker
  • Neighbor
  • Director
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1989 29% A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Dream Child
  • Screenwriter
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1987 59% The Serpent and the Rainbow
  • Director
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1987 72% A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors
  • Screenwriter
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1986 Fangoria's Weekend Of Horrors
  • Actor
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1986 0% Deadly Friend
  • Director
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1985 Chiller
  • Director
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1984 The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2
  • Director
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1984 95% A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1984 Invitation to Hell
  • Director
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1982 62% Swamp Thing
  • Director
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1981 20% Deadly Blessing
  • Director
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1980 Psychotic Connections
  • Director
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1978 Stranger in Our House (Summer of Fear)
  • Director
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1978 The Evolution of Snuff (Confessions of a Blue Movie Star)(Snuff)
  • Director
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1977 64% The Hills Have Eyes
  • Director
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1972 63% The Last House on the Left
  • Director
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Quotes from Wes Craven's Characters

    1. Heather Langenkamp: Isn't there somebody who can stop him?
    2. Wes Craven: Actually there is a person in the dreams who's sort of gatekeeper, so to speak. Somebody that Freddy has to get by to before he.. comes through the door world. That person's you, Heather.
    3. Heather Langenkamp: It's me? But why me?
    4. Wes Craven: Well, dramatically speaking, it makes perfect sense. You played Nancy after all, you're the first to humiliate him, defeat him.
    5. Heather Langenkamp: But that was NANCY, Wes. It's not me.
    6. Wes Craven: Yeah, but you were the one who gave Nancy the strength. So in order to get out, he's gotta come through you.
    From Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Submitted by Nick P (4 months ago)
    1. Himself: (Wes Craven) I think the only way to stop him is to make another movie. Now I swear to you I'll I'm gonna stay by this computer and keep writing until I finish the script, but when the time comes, you're gonna have to make a choice.
    2. Herself: Choice? What kind of choice?
    3. Himself: Whether or not you will be willing to play Nancy one last time.
    From Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
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