Wes Craven is an actor, producer, realizer and American scenario writer, born the August 2nd 1939 with Cleveland, in the Ohio (the United States).

Biography

It has a Carole sister. Pertubée childhood: his/her father dies whereas it is only five years old.

After studies of letters and psychology with Baltimore, Wes Craven officiates a few years as professor of social sciences and dramaturgy. At the end of the Years 1960, it leaves for New York, where it obtains a station in a production company. Initially charged to supervise the department of documentary, he quickly becomes assistant of production all while improving with the assembly.

In 1972, Wes Craven written and carries out the Last House on the left , a film of horror of an extreme violence which precedes already the interest of the scenario writer for the morbid one. This first test, very noticed, enables him to put in scene, five years later, traditional of the kind: the hill has eyes , a feature-length film taking as a starting point documentary on the Guerre by Vietnam. Adapted true story of a Scottish family anthropophagous which tightened ambushes with the travellers of the area, the film gains many rewards throughout the world.

In 1980, with the Farm of terror , it offers one of its first roles to Sharon Stone, but it should wait until 1984 and the first adventures of Freddy in the Claws of the night (in which Johnny Depp carries out her beginnings with the screen), to reach the dedication finally. Consequently established main of the horror, Wes Craven continues in this vein with Shocker (1989) and the Basement of the fear (1991), but it is always with Freddy, the man with the burned face, striped sweater and steel claws, which it meets success. In the exit testifies to the seventh shutter of the saga, Freddy leaves the night , in 1994.

After the failure of a vampire in Brooklyn (1995) with Eddie Murphy, Wes Craven gives a second breath to the Slasher , and consequently occasion with its career, with Scream , Grand Prix with the festival Fantastic' Arts in 1997, which reveals Neve Campbell then. In the tread, it carries out Scream 2 and can, thanks to the financial repercussions of two films, to put in scene a more personal project, the Music of my heart . This drama interpreted by Meryl Streep shows a relative failure (in spite of a nomination with the Oscar of the best actress), quickly wiped by the triumph with the boxoffice of Scream 3 , last shutter of the adventures of the serial killer masked.

Collapsing under the proposals of large studios, Wes Craven takes its time for finally turning in 2005 a film of wolves-garous, Cursed , which marks its meeting again with Kevin Williamson N scenario writer of Scream and Scream 2 . Many and gone up many times, this film proves one cooking failure. To recover from this fiasco, the scenario writer tries an incursion into the field of the thriller by confining Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy in Boeing 767 of Red Eye/Under high pressure (2005).

Catalog of films

like realizer

as actor

as producer

as scenario writer

See too

One will find an analysis of the esthetics of films of Wes Craven in the cinema of horror and his figures (Paris, P.U.F., 2005), which shows how the films of this realizer are ordered around a reflection on the powers of the image .

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Wes Craven on Internet Movie Database

Simple: Wes Craven

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