Wes Craven died
Today, at the age of 77, after a long battle with a brain tumor, the legendary director, screenwriter and producer Wes Craven , who gave the world Freddy Krueger and Ghostface , has passed away .Wes was born on August 2, 1939 in Cleveland. After graduation, he taught liberal arts at college, but his real passion was cinema. Soon he managed to get a job as a sound engineer in one of the New York film companies. In those days, Craven often had to act as a director of adult films, hiding behind various pseudonyms. In 1972, he finally managed to make his debut in a big movie. His film "The Last House on the Left", filmed for a modest amount of $ 90 thousand , was heavily censored in various countries, but this did not prevent her from earning more than $ 3 million in the USA alone . The following film by Wes - "The Hills Have Eyes" also acquired cult status among viewers. One of the main achievements in the career of Craven was the creation of the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, which served as the basis for one of the most famous franchises in the history of cinema.  Over the next years, Wes directed several episodes of the cult series "The Twilight Zone" ( The Twilight Zone ), "The Men Under the Stairs", "And The Hills Have Eyes 2", "The Vampire in Brooklyn ", the seventh film about Freddy Krueger ... Another revolution in the genre, the master of horror managed to make in 1996, when he presented the public with the slasher" Scream ". Craven directed all four parts of the film series about the killer in a ghost mask, and also helped the MTV channel launch the series of the same name, which quickly won the love of viewers.  Thanks to Craven , the world has learned the names of Johnny Depp, Sharon Stone and Bruce Willis. In 1995, Wes received the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Academy Awards for his contribution to the development of cinema. The Topic of Article: Wes Craven died. |
