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Some Random Dude
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:18 am Post subject: Wes Craven |
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In Hell I Burn Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:06 am Posts: 473 Location: In an asylum surrounded by green woods
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Wes Craven | | 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 phenomenally successful Scream series, which spoofed the teen horror genre even as they revived it. The films kicked off a trend in teen horror films, inspiring any number of imitators that, for the most part, failed to live up to Craven's own work.
A product of a strict Baptist upbringing in Cleveland, OH, Craven received a B.A. in Psychology and Education from Wheaton College and earned an M.A. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. After teaching humanities for awhile, Craven plunged into filmmaking as a production assistant and editor for several "B" companies. He made his directorial debut with Last House on the Left (1972), a gruesome little effort that, to put it mildly, affected different people in different ways. Some viewers found this repellently staged "revenge for rape" story profound, citing the fact that Craven based the movie on Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring; others, including such mainstream commentators as Leonard Maltin, have condemned Last House on the Left as utter excrement. No matter how one felt about Craven, however, one could not deny his power to manipulate his audience. This power was further evidenced with The Hills Have Eyes (1977), which again met with radically divided opinions -- and made a fortune.
With Swamp Thing (1982), Craven graduated to big budgets, and also revealed a gift for comedy. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) was an equally effective blend of gore and grim humor which spawned several sequels and served to introduce the world to Freddy Krueger, vengeful specter par excellence. The popularity of the film and its sequels established Craven as a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood, although he was only directly involved with two of the six sequels. In 1994, he directed Wes Craven's New Nightmare, a Pirandellian affair in which he and Nightmare cast regulars Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, and John Saxon played "themselves" -- as did Freddy Kruger!
Two years later, Craven experienced another milestone in his career with Scream. The success of the film and its numerous imitators effectively established Craven as a hot mainstream commodity, and he followed the film with the equally successful (though not as critically praised) Scream 2 the following year. In 1999, he effected a radical departure from the genre with The Music of the Heart, a sentimental drama that starred Meryl Streep as violin teacher who brings music to the lives of children in Spanish Harlem. The film was quickly dismissed by audiences and critics alike, and, in 2000, Craven returned to more familiar territory with Scream 3, the latest in his in saga of hip, ironic terror.
Craven has occasionally curbed his stomach-churning tendencies (though not his willingness to run viewers through an emotional wringer) with his television work, including selected episodes of the Twilight Zone revival of the mid-'80s. In 1989, Craven produced a sitcom, The People Next Door, about a cartoonist who had the ability to imagine his drawings into existence. -- Hal Erickson | Navigation:
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Director - filmography
- Cursed (2004)
- Scream 3 (2003)
- Music of the Heart (1999)
- Scream 2 (1997)
- Scream (1996)
- Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
- New Nightmare (1994)
- The People Under the Stairs (1991)
- Night Visions (1990)
- Shocker (1989)
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
- Deadly Friend (1986)
- Casebusters (1986)
- The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985)
- Chiller (1985)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
- Invitation to Hell (1984)
- Swamp Thing (1982)
- Deadly Blessing (1981)
- Stranger in Our House (1978)
- The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
- The Last House on the Left (1972)
- Together (1971)
Writer - filmography- Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)
- Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Actor - filmography- Shadow Zone: The Undead Express (1996)
- The Fear (1995)
- Body Bags (1993)
- Masters of Horror (2002)
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Some Random Dude
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In Hell I Burn Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:06 am Posts: 473 Location: In an asylum surrounded by green woods
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Added the Scream trilogy...
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Some Random Dude wrote: | Added the Scream trilogy... |
Good man
By the way what the hell is your avatar from, looks like a laff
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Some Random Dude
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:42 am Post subject: |
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paul-scream22 wrote: | Some Random Dude wrote: | Added the Scream trilogy... |
Good man By the way what the hell is your avatar from, looks like a laff |
I got that avatar way back. It came from a japanese commercial that I found on Albinoblacksheep or eBaumsworld, can't find it anymore...
@ fierysky, I prefer 1 CD rips. So if you're willing to rip it with XviD I'd like that
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:10 am Post subject: |
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Some Random Dude wrote: | @ fierysky, I prefer 1 CD rips. So if you're willing to rip it with XviD I'd like that |
Funny that NewMov would rip 1-5 and not 6-7... I've got a lot of releases coming up (4-5 to spread as only source), and I'm running very short on HDD space ATM, so look for a rip coming soon.
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Master Of The Dead Donkey Joined: Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:57 am Posts: 743 Location: there
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I have the 'Director's' documentary about Wes Craven, needed ?
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Some Random Dude
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:11 am Post subject: |
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In Hell I Burn Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:06 am Posts: 473 Location: In an asylum surrounded by green woods
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Bonnie_Parker wrote: | I have the 'Director's' documentary about Wes Craven, needed ? |
Yeah, I'd like to see that documentary. Thanks
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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paul-scream22 wrote: | By the way what the hell is your avatar from, looks like a laff |
The commercial was for a construction company called Anabuki Construction.
Here's the whole commerical from there website:
http://www.anabuki.co.jp/anabukin-chan/ ... mov02.html
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karstmobile wrote: | paul-scream22 wrote: | By the way what the hell is your avatar from, looks like a laff |
The commercial was for a construction company called Anabuki Construction. Here's the whole commerical from there website: http://www.anabuki.co.jp/anabukin-chan/ ... mov02.html |
Cheers karst - but how the hell did you know that
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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paul-scream22 wrote: | Cheers karst - but how the hell did you know that |
googled for "japanese commercial balls"
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heheheheeee..... funny commercial!
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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karstmobile wrote: | paul-scream22 wrote: | Cheers karst - but how the hell did you know that |
googled for "japanese commercial balls" |
Seriousley
And there was me thinking you were a multi cultural person, knowing about many differnet aspects of japanese culture
Was actually impressed till you said you just sat on your ass and googled for it
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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paul-scream22 wrote: | And there was me thinking you were a multi cultural person, knowing about many differnet aspects of japanese culture |
Ah, the power of google.
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Some Random Dude
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Some Random Dude
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In Hell I Burn Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:06 am Posts: 473 Location: In an asylum surrounded by green woods
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I don't have problem with VHSRips, but it's ripped from tv with a logo in the left upper corner from the tvstation and has dutch subtitles. So I left that rip out of the collection, because of those reasons. Will have look at The Summer of Fear...
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This is pretty much close to finished..Good work all involved
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