A Tribute To Wes Craven: My Favorite Wes Craven Movies

Wes Craven: One of the masters of horror. 

I will be blunt and confess that horror movies are not my forte but very few filmmakers know how to master the suspense, the blood and scares real well. One of the directors is Wes Craven. He died yesterday at the age of 75 and he will be remembered one of the best and most artistic horror directors of all-time. He knew how to twist a story and turn into a fun and original movie or series of movies that teenagers can host a marathon on Halloween. He was known as the writer and director of slasher films and not just to have cheap thrills...but to make newer cheap thrills. I will post some of my favorite films' clips of his on here. May he rest in peace.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

This is the movie that catapulted an iconic horror figure named Freddy Krueger and he had the time to haunt your dreams or give you nightmares. Eventually, you have to wake up or die. However, it is a movie that will still set you up an inception of marathons that you and your friends will like to hang out and be scared with your popcorn in one hand and another friend's hand being gripped firmly for a while.

The Last House on the Left

Oh, yes. I believe this is his feature debut film as a director and we knew that there is a filmmaker being born when we witness the horrors of girls getting tortured and the brutal violence between certain characters. It is a haunting and disturbing film to watch and tough film to endure but it will be worth it in the end.

The People Under the Stairs

I am mixed on this movie but this is so campy and fun that you could not resist the admirable effort that he put into trying to spin off some sort of an "Evil Dead" parody movie.

Scream

Ah, yes, we have another iconic horror figure called Ghostface that scares stupid teenagers into their fates. But, what is so refreshing and scary about this movie is that the teenagers know the cliches from other scary movies but fall into the trip of their senseless, dumb new traps that eventually will lurk Ghostface to kill them. This is another fun movie to watch in October.

Red Eye

This is not a horror film per se but an unfortunate, underrated thriller that will get you hooked and realize that you better watch out for the people you are going to sit next to on an airplane. It has some echoes of a horror film but it is the tension between the characters of Cillian Murphy, a great performance from him, and Rachel McAdams that set it off. A short but entertaining B-level thriller.