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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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Highest Rated Movies

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	--
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	--
2008		Starz Inside: Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX	Actor	--
2007	11%	The Hills Have Eyes 2	Producer	$20.8M
2006	10%	Pulse	Screenwriter	$20.2M
2006	56%	Feast	Producer	--
2006	49%	The Hills Have Eyes	Producer	$41.7M
2006		Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film	Actor	--
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	--
2003	41%	Freddy vs. Jason	Producer	$82.2M
2002		Boogeymen II: Masters of Horror	Actor	--
2001	53%	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	Himself	$29.9M
2000	36%	Scream 3	Director	--
2000	67%	The American Nightmare - A Celebration of Films from Hollywood's Golden Age of Fright	Actor	--
1999	62%	Music of the Heart	Director	--
1998	20%	Carnival of Souls	Producer	--
1997	81%	Scream 2	Director	--
1996		Shadow Zone: The Undead Express	Actor	--
1996	83%	Scream	Director	--
1995		The Fear	Dr. Arnold	--
1995	10%	Vampire in Brooklyn	Director	--
1994	79%	Wes Craven's New Nightmare	Director Himself	--
1993	60%	Body Bags	Actor	--
1991	56%	The People Under The Stairs	Director Screenwriter Producer	--
1989	8%	Shocker	Neighbor Director	--
1989	29%	A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 - The Dream Child	Screenwriter	--
1987	59%	The Serpent and the Rainbow	Director	--
1987	72%	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors	Screenwriter	--
1986		Fangoria's Weekend Of Horrors	Actor	--
1986	0%	Deadly Friend	Director	--
1985		Chiller	Director	--
1984		The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2	Director	--
1984	95%	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Director Screenwriter	--
1984		Invitation to Hell	Director	--
1982	62%	Swamp Thing	Director	--
1981	20%	Deadly Blessing	Director	--
1980		Psychotic Connections	Director	--
1978		Stranger in Our House (Summer of Fear)	Director	--
1978		The Evolution of Snuff (Confessions of a Blue Movie Star)(Snuff)	Director	--
1977	64%	The Hills Have Eyes	Director	--
1972	63%	The Last House on the Left	Director	--

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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)