Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 5:53:25 GMT
The late and very, very amazing and talented Wes Craven did such a service to horror films. Next to my hero and idol, horror legend THE CHIN HIMSELF BRUCE CAMPBELL--- Wes Craven was someone whose vision captivated me and drove my imagination into places I'd never thought possible. Growing up with aspirations to be the 'follow up' Wes of horror, his work went beyond that of the imagination and into something insanely cerebral. Even John Carpenter, the powerfully gifted visuals director who gave us the ultimate serial-killer horror film HALLOWEEN, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, ASSAULT ON PRESCIENT 13, THE THING and so many more, had his share of lower films that Wes easily surpassed(resources be damned in horror, mind you).
Wes gave us Freddy from NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, who in my opinion fits the boogeyman bill of EARONS terrorizing and taunting us in our sleep, but that's just me... he gave us HILLS HAVE EYES... THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW, hands down the best non-Romero zombie film post WHITE ZOMBIE... the taut, claustrophobic-paranoia driven PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS... film adaption of SWAMP THING... and let's not forget the controversial horror film that he changed the game with, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT.
Granted, Wes had his fair share of flukes. Let us not forget that dumb pre-TEENWOLF drama CURSED... the shockingly bad SHOCKER... or the ultimate opitimy of bad movies from great directors, VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN
(Still better than GHOSTS OF MARS 
)
But more times than not, Wes Craven delivered the goods as far as horror goes and along with John Carpenter, they are the modern force to be reckoned with. Wes almost lost everything with VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN but then he met Kevin Williamson, an incredible writer with such vision in the PASSION that is ultimately his own brain! Williamson adapted a screenplay loosely inspired by the Gainesville Ripper murders for a movie that he tentatively titled, SCARY MOVIE and while trying to get the bid in Hollywood, it didn't pick up. By 1995, the down and out Williamson was almost homeless when his agent brought his script to the attention of Miramax who purchased it and had him cut down on the gore factor, until Wes Craven was secured as director and managed to maintain the majority of content. A rename would follow as the film landed into production, with the original tentative title becoming the name of a comedy making fun of it's original content.
From here, Craven and Williamson created a horror franchise beginning with a 1996 flick now known to the world as SCREAM, a horror slasher whose characters almost seem to realize that they are inside of a horror film. Sydney Prescott, portrayed flawlessly by Neve Campbell, is terrorized by a masked killer who enjoys taunting her over the phone with horror-movie themed quips and threats. Followed by three more successful sequels, the original film is loosely inspired by the horrific Gainesville Ripper murders as I said and as such, the allusions are there in the gore as well as the terrorizing of one small community, but outside of that the film has a very powerful, very original narrative which I will not spoil here in case you haven't seen it. Just in case though, watch it before you read this thread
ANYWAYS, geek out finished for the night... has anyone seen it? Like it? Thoughts? What-ev's?
Wes gave us Freddy from NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, who in my opinion fits the boogeyman bill of EARONS terrorizing and taunting us in our sleep, but that's just me... he gave us HILLS HAVE EYES... THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW, hands down the best non-Romero zombie film post WHITE ZOMBIE... the taut, claustrophobic-paranoia driven PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS... film adaption of SWAMP THING... and let's not forget the controversial horror film that he changed the game with, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT.
Granted, Wes had his fair share of flukes. Let us not forget that dumb pre-TEENWOLF drama CURSED... the shockingly bad SHOCKER... or the ultimate opitimy of bad movies from great directors, VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN
(Still better than GHOSTS OF MARS 
)But more times than not, Wes Craven delivered the goods as far as horror goes and along with John Carpenter, they are the modern force to be reckoned with. Wes almost lost everything with VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN but then he met Kevin Williamson, an incredible writer with such vision in the PASSION that is ultimately his own brain! Williamson adapted a screenplay loosely inspired by the Gainesville Ripper murders for a movie that he tentatively titled, SCARY MOVIE and while trying to get the bid in Hollywood, it didn't pick up. By 1995, the down and out Williamson was almost homeless when his agent brought his script to the attention of Miramax who purchased it and had him cut down on the gore factor, until Wes Craven was secured as director and managed to maintain the majority of content. A rename would follow as the film landed into production, with the original tentative title becoming the name of a comedy making fun of it's original content.
From here, Craven and Williamson created a horror franchise beginning with a 1996 flick now known to the world as SCREAM, a horror slasher whose characters almost seem to realize that they are inside of a horror film. Sydney Prescott, portrayed flawlessly by Neve Campbell, is terrorized by a masked killer who enjoys taunting her over the phone with horror-movie themed quips and threats. Followed by three more successful sequels, the original film is loosely inspired by the horrific Gainesville Ripper murders as I said and as such, the allusions are there in the gore as well as the terrorizing of one small community, but outside of that the film has a very powerful, very original narrative which I will not spoil here in case you haven't seen it. Just in case though, watch it before you read this thread
ANYWAYS, geek out finished for the night... has anyone seen it? Like it? Thoughts? What-ev's?
