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Wes Craven To Write and Direct Again; Also Plans Horror Remakes…Of His Own Movies
by Jen Yamato | September 28, 2006
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Horror auteur Wes Craven has announced his return to making his original horror films, and is currently writing his first writing-directing project since 1994's "New Nightmare."

Craven's new flick will be made with Rogue Pictures, who also joined with him to form a new horror-centric production arm, Midnight Pictures. Midnight already has a project in the works -- the recently announced remake of Craven's 1972 slasher, "The Last House on the Left."

Other flicks being considered for Midnight's slate include remakes of such horror classics as the electric serial killer film, "Shocker" and the heartwarming family tale, "The People under The Stairs" -- both, naturally, originally written and directed by Craven himself.

Craven recently collaborated with his son, Jonathan Craven, in co-writing the script for a new "The Hills Have Eyes II." The sequel to last year's remake of Craven's 1977 original "HHE" (to which Craven previously wrote and directed an original sequel in 1985) is currently being filmed and slated for a March 2007 release.

But back to this new project. According to Variety, Craven's return to writing after twelve years of directing other people's scripts (among them "Vampire In Brooklyn," "Music of the Heart," and "Scream 3") will be a "Sixth Sense"-like supernatural story with a teenage protagonist.

The fright-flick filmmaker did write the script for his short installment in the multi-director anthology, "Paris Je'Taime," but has apparently been itching to return to directing his own works: "It's appalling to me that you have to go back to 1994 to find an original that I wrote and directed, so this is very important to me."

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Dark neo_wolf
Dark neo_wolf writes:
on Sep 28 2006 02:02 PM

urrently writing his first writing-directing project since 1991's "The People Under The Stairs.


He wrote and directed new nightmare in 1994.


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RT-News
RT-News writes:
on Sep 28 2006 02:20 PM

In reply to this comment (#845239)
So he did!

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Mikeal420
Mikeal420 writes:
on Sep 28 2006 02:53 PM

Craven has always come up with great stories- he is definitly one of the only true horror writers is America. But his dialogue has always been corney, his characters all one-sided, and his directing ability is (nearly) akin to Roger Corman

This is good news for horror movies, but I'm not sure if it's good news for film in general


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The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man writes:
on Sep 28 2006 04:50 PM

[b]Why remake your own movies??[/b]
That is a weird idea. I guess he figures since somebody will remake them why not me?? Last House On The Left is a personal favorite so I would love to see that. Shocker was a piece of shit. Peace out!! LOL


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Simple Minded
Simple Minded writes:
on Sep 28 2006 05:46 PM

But will it top "Cursed"?

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new12play
new12play writes:
on Sep 29 2006 05:58 AM

With all these remakes, in 20 years from now, will there be anything from this time period to remake...since everything is being remade today. Can you do remakes of remakes? And also, will anyone ever be able to come with new horror icons? I've wondered if there will ever be another movie to have a horror figure as prominent as say Freddy or Jason or Michael Myers...or figures even like Predator or the Aliens.

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alsanali
alsanali writes:
on Sep 29 2006 07:08 AM

Jigsaw...

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new12play
new12play writes:
on Sep 29 2006 07:43 AM

Pretty much the only one I thought of too. But could there be a remake with him. I guess they'll remake anything.

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Sadistik
Sadistik writes:
on Sep 29 2006 08:01 AM

They're remaking movies from the 90's now? Wow....

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Ash84
Ash84 writes:
on Sep 29 2006 08:58 AM

I don't think Jigsaw ranks with the "main 80s trifecta" of Jason, Freddy and Michael. (Even though Mike is semi-70s.)

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new12play
new12play writes:
on Sep 29 2006 09:48 AM

Which is why I think we may never see a legitimate horror icon that is an original idea. Maybe the GingerDead Man...

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frogleg
frogleg writes:
on Sep 29 2006 10:25 AM

"Monsturd".

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speelbergo
speelbergo writes:
on Sep 29 2006 11:36 AM

[b]Shocker sucked![/b]
Did anyone even see the original? It played like a bad rip off of Nightmare on Elm Street! That is until the music video montage of the protag being chased through TV land; all to the sounds of cheesy heavy metal. I wasn't sure if it was intentionally funny, or just god-awful film making.


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A_Voice_of_Reason
A_Voice_of_Reason writes:
on Sep 29 2006 06:53 PM

[b]Horror Icon with no equal[/b]
One word: Troll


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bastard_guy180
bastard_guy180 writes:
on Nov 24 2006 03:28 PM

[b]Troll?[/b]
Shocker was HORRENDOUS.


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