Wes Craven - biography

“I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into.  It doesn’t matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.”

“All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.”

“A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren’t so nice.  Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?”

“I have a lot of fans who are people of color.  I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.”

“The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.”

Wes Craven directed the following films:
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Deadly Blessing (1981)
Swamp Thing (1982)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
New Nightmare (1994)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Scream (1996)
Scream 2 (1997)
Music of the Heart (1999)
Scream 3 (2000)
Red Eye (2005)
Cursed (2005)
Paris, je t’aime (2006)
My Soul to Take (2010)
Scream 4 (2011)


Wes Craven has appeared in the following films:
New Nightmare (1994)


Wes Craven contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
New Nightmare (1994)
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Pulse (2006)
The Last House on the Left (2009)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
My Soul to Take (2010)
Scream 4 (2011)