Los Angeles, Wes Craven EU.- offer the public knew what he wanted: “. Blood is blood there always is when they yell,” a couple of years ago, summing up a recipe that was in force for decades and it earned him numerous successes. US filmmaker became one of the masters of the most influential horror of our time, revolutionized the genre and bequeathed numerous classic until the cancer took him on Sunday night.
No one was really Craven able to foresee that would become one of the most important filmmakers of recent decades. He grew up in Cleveland (Ohio), a big city, but in the provinces, in a strict Baptist family of faith. Alcohol, snuff or playing cards were therefore prohibited for the young, like going to the movies. So, Wesley, and true to its name, studied literature and psychology at the renowned Johns Hopkins. A Hollywood came by chance, but failed to stay and reinvent a genre.
His first film, “The Last House on the Left” is a free version of a film by Ingmar Bergman in which Craven also signs the script. In the film, which was translated as “The Last House on the Left”, “Panic at midnight” or “Outrage at dawn,” a young couple rape and murder of two girls in the Spanish-speaking world, whose parents undertake bloody revenge . That would be the key for upcoming titles Craven and dozens of imitators: Revenge! Revenge of the victims or their families to assailants who become victims and mostly were played by teenagers, like the public to which the films were going.
And that was the same in films from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” series: the argument revolved around youth who dreamed they were victims of a serial murderer, and some ended up being murdered in real life. The first installment, in 1984, cost $ 1.8 million and grossed 15 times. They were followed by eight others, a television series and comic books and various publications. The protagonist of the series, Freddy Krueger, the character disfigured face, shirt and red and black striped glove blades, became a cult figure.
Many thought that with that came the highlight saga This new wave of horror films, but they were wrong. In 1996, Craven returned to inoculate fear viewers with “Scream”, which multiplied by 17 in the coffers its budget of 15 million. Not surprisingly, “Scream 2″ came just a year later, followed by a third and fourth installment, and this year, a TV series. Drew Barrymore, Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Rose McGowan, Liev Schreiber, Patrick Dempsey, Jenny McCarthy, all were victims of the murderer of the mask, which has become a must for any Halloween party.
” As the creator of horror films, I say I want to show the whole truth, and this is bloody, atrocious and dangerous, “said the filmmaker once. In his films do not lack the cut, cracked or hanging corpses, nor torture, all washed in blood. But Craven was also able to shoot other films, such as melodrama “Music of the Heart” (1999) with Meryl Streep as a woman torn recovering the meaning of life Harlem teaching children to play the violin. But when the public heard the name Craven, what I wanted was blood.
And the director himself? Paradoxically, the master of horror did not like horror movies. Why I not see genre films signed by other colleagues, but also films like “Alien” or the biblical drama “The Passion of the Christ” by Mel Gibson. The reason Craven himself confessed: he was afraid
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