Wes Craven
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50 scary films to watch at Halloween
- Film
- October 18, 2020, 06:00
No Halloween parties. No trick-or-treating. What else is there to do but scare ourselves silly watching some terrifying films? Below you’ll find 50(...)

Ringu: The most influential film of the late 1990s?
- Film
- February 28, 2019, 15:13
Here’s a notion. Hideo Nakata’s Ringu – receiving a 20th anniversary release – is the most influential film of the late 1990s. We’re not saying it’s t(...)

‘There’s an entire generation whose first exposure to sex was depraved’
- Film
- October 13, 2017, 05:00
One might reasonably imagine that, as a veteran of all three instalments of Edgar Wright’s Cornetto trilogy and the star of the incoming creep-out The(...)
![Julia Ducournau: “When I was growing up I heard [my doctor parents] talking about diseases and I would picture them and fantasise about them.” Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Julia Ducournau: “When I was growing up I heard [my doctor parents] talking about diseases and I would picture them and fantasise about them.” Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty](/polopoly_fs/1.3028015.1490719071!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Cannibalism meets feminism in this new horror movie
- Film
- March 30, 2017
Move over, creepy pasta and found footage; there’s a dapper new kind of art-horror about town. A sub-genre that once looked to have peaked around 1977(...)
Horror maestro who stalked a fine line between schlock and shocking art
- People
- September 10, 2015, 16:07
Wes Craven, who has died aged 76 of brain cancer, was a horror film pioneer three times over. The most notorious of Craven’s movies remains his debut(...)

Spine-chilling horror flicks come on stream
- Technology
- September 10, 2015, 01:00
It seems appropriate that a new streaming horror-movie service surfaces just as the master of the genre, Wes Craven, passes away. Although they spawne(...)

US horror director Wes Craven dies aged 76
- US
- August 31, 2015
Wes Craven, a master of horror cinema and a proponent of the slasher genre best known for creating the Freddy Krueger and Scream franchises, died on S(...)

‘We just write from the soul’ – Marlon Wayans is not haunted by the haters
- Film
- June 21, 2013, 00:00
‘There’s math and science to comedy,” the mighty Marlon Wayans muses. “I’m serious. This equals this. That equals that. There is even science to a goo(...)