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Wes Craven, ‘Scream’ and ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Director, Dies at 76
Variety ^ | August 30, 2015

Posted on 08/30/2015 6:33:30 PM PDT by SMGFan

Legendary horror director Wes Craven, known for the “Scream” films, “Nightmare on Elm Street” and more, has died of brain cancer. He was 76.

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KEYWORDS: cinema; director; entertainment; film; hollyweird; horror; movies; obituaries; obituary; wescraven
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To: Redcitizen

Thank you.


21 posted on 08/30/2015 7:01:35 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SMGFan

The only films of his I’ve seen are the original Nightmare on Elm Street and Last House on the left.

Elm Street was quite good for a low-budget slasher flick. Very creative, and some great special effects.

Last House on the Left was trashy, schlocky, sleazy, and skeevy, but also scary in its own way. It’s scary because the sort of gross, degrading things the female victims are put through in that movie is frighteningly close to what real-life serial killers and other sickos do to their victims. Real life is always scarier than bug-eyed monsters.


22 posted on 08/30/2015 7:02:06 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg

ping


23 posted on 08/30/2015 7:03:12 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: laplata

I saw your home page. Hope you dont mind. Thanks for the dangerous service.

So many military men on this board. I feel like a weasel for not doing my part.

I went to National Guard after 9/11 on Staten Island.

I was 33 and 260. They said no go with the weight. Should have tried harder to lose it.


24 posted on 08/30/2015 7:03:34 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: SJSAMPLE

Were they fairly compensated?


25 posted on 08/30/2015 7:03:44 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: dp0622

Thank you.

Don’t feel bad because there is no reason to. Your heart was in the right place. Your caliber is needed now and that’s what counts. I’m glad we’re on the same side.


26 posted on 08/30/2015 7:09:37 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SMGFan

Scream was one of the most original movies ever made. I wouldn’t call it a true horror movie however; it was more like a black comedy. But the killer’s costume was iconic.


27 posted on 08/30/2015 7:10:23 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bush [the 90s rock band] for POTUS 2016!!!)
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To: Redcitizen

Maybe he’ll meet Dante. The Inferno was creepy enough. Seriously I doubt Craven was advocating the behaviors in his movies. He was giving us a portrait of evil.


28 posted on 08/30/2015 7:10:42 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Redcitizen

Good for catching yourself. Being Christian and being a dick is not a good pairing.


29 posted on 08/30/2015 7:54:34 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: laplata

I doubt anyone was fairly compensated for Scream 4.


30 posted on 08/30/2015 8:01:10 PM PDT by proust
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To: SMGFan

RIP.


31 posted on 08/30/2015 8:07:00 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: proust

I wouldn’t know. That’s why I asked if the home owners were fairly compensated.

I never cared for those horror movies so I don’t know anything about them.


32 posted on 08/30/2015 8:12:04 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: over3Owithabrain

thanks. you got that right.


33 posted on 08/30/2015 8:23:06 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; Perdogg; Bender2

RIP


34 posted on 08/30/2015 10:23:32 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; Perdogg; Bender2

Wow. RIP.

I remember watching the first “Nightmare” back in the day: Very unique and very scary.


35 posted on 08/31/2015 5:00:39 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: EveningStar; Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; ...

ping


36 posted on 08/31/2015 3:25:16 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: GOPsterinMA

it had hot chicks with big hair.


37 posted on 08/31/2015 3:25:58 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; fieldmarshaldj

I watched about four of the “Elm Street” films and the first two “Scream” films. Craven had quite an imagination.


38 posted on 08/31/2015 3:34:48 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: SMGFan

As I tweeted out this morning, “The horror! The horror!”


39 posted on 08/31/2015 3:38:43 PM PDT by MarDav
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To: SJSAMPLE

Scream 4 didn’t go straight to video. It earned $97 million world wide. While for the series that was pathetic (Scream 1 did better than that domestically and unadjusted), it still managed a profitable theatrical release.


40 posted on 08/31/2015 3:39:06 PM PDT by discostu (It always comes down to cortexiphan)
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