The Wes Craven Thread
 

i voted last house on the left but the people under the stairs was a close second

I'm not a big Craven fan but The People Under The Stairs is genius, so that gets my vote. :cool:

Last House for me. Absolutely love this movie.

Original Nightmare is class and by far the best of the series.

Hills have eyes and People under the stairs are also up there in my faves.

Also have a soft spot for Serpent and the rainbow and Shocker.
I watched Deadly friend endless times as I was a huge fan of Kristy Swanson when I was a young hormonal teenager.:blush: Love the basketball death in this.

The Hills Have Eyes for me.

has to be last house,krug is 1 bad ass mofo

A lot of wes craven films are a bit of give and take not good but not bad i like last house on left ... but also thought ppl under the stairs was very good but to me has got to be original hills have eyes without a doubt ..freddy bit pants now and ben milked to the hilt big style that they just ruined it to me

Hills Have Eyes

Yep Hills for me too.It's raw and brutal,doesn't go too far like LHOTL and that fear of unknown wide open spaces and primitive landscapes makes it a winner.
Ol' Freddy boy shouldn't be knocked for the ridiculous sequels imho,the original was a classic.(With the exception of that ludicrous tacked-on ending.):ack:

oh, never really liked Hills have eyes for some reason that i still can't figure out (maybe I'll give it another try!). I also have a big soft spot for Shocker, its a lot of fun. Likewise Nightmare on Elm street, and i do like the silly ending! and I like all the sequels (some of them more than the original). But Last House takes it for me, love it's rawness and David Hess - well, nuff said!

Believe it or not,HILLS 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine.....:o

One of his worst,I found was SUMMER OF FEAR,a rather bollocks TV movie.:yawn:
Deadly friend,whilst no classic was rather fun.:woot:

Deadly Blessing was not bad.:eyebrows:

Scream as we all know,brought the slasher boom back.:clap:

Shocker was IMHO too much of a Freddy Krueger imitation.....:suspicious:

The People Under The Stairs was nuts!:der:

The Serpent and The Rainbow was another I could never really get into....:yawn:

It's astonishingly silly but my guilty pleasure of Craven's is Swamp Thing. :embarassed:

Well worth it for Ms.Barbeau.......;)

Hills 2 must be the only film to feature a dog with a flashback.:laugh:

I went with New Nightmare, I loved how he brought realism to the horror genre in a way that I hadn't seen prior to that film. Also, Freddy looked BAD ASS in this one; it does get a little silly towards the climax, how does she stab him in the eye with a eel? :doh: - but it's forgivable!

It's just a blast watching Rob Englund being Rob Englund, Wes being Wes and even Bob Shaye pretending to be Bob Shaye! Winner.

It was a winner Phill.
Very original twist to the franchise indeed,and after all those stand-up comedian sequels,was a refreshing change.

Yeah, the Freddy franchise; for me, goes a little somethin' like this:

Nightmare on Elm Street
Nightmare on Elm Street 3
New Nightmare

That's it! :)

As a footnote the Swamp Thing himself Dick Durock has died at 71. :(

I am unashamed to admit I have a soft spot for that movie. Can't say the same for Shocker though, only thing I liked that involved that movie was the wall clock I had. It had Horace Pinker on the electric chair on one side and the other had the Megadeth, Vic logo.

Watched HILLS 2 the other night again....WOOF!:laugh:

It drove me barking mad. :biggrin:

As a kid of the 80's I gotta go with A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Anyone looking forward to SCREAM 4? :woot:


YouTube - Scream 4 - Official Trailer 2 [HD]

I've always thought The Serpent and the Rainbow to be very creepy, so it gets my vote.

Not sure why but Freddy never did anything for me.

The Hills have Eyes remakes are better than the original pair imo.

* eg - the remake of the first is better than both the originals, the second remake is better than the original Hills 2 only.

I don't think that I can really choose between Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. There are still lots of films on that list that I've not seen though, but I still refer to him as my favourite (horror) director.

What films you not seen mate?

well, these are the ones that i have seen: both HHE, all 3 Scream films, the People under the stairs, Last House..., and of course Nightmare on Elm Street.

You know, out in the "real world" that's enough to be considered a geek ;)

What planet's 'the real world' on?

That's pretty much Craven's important works....what did you make of The Hills Have Eyes Part II?

It's been a while since I watched it so can't really recall the details right now. I thought the thing with the blind girl was pretty funny though – blind people with 'special powers' obviously being a recurrent theme in a lot of horror type films, and as far as I can remember they all try really hard to pretend her blindness isn't an issue. Then she ends up saving them. I think.

Edit – I'm voting for Scream now because it hasn't got a single vote so far!

I used to be a WC fan, but recently i find his movies aren't reaching the highs they used to get to

i voted last house as my fave as its the most shocking (the remake sucked monkey balls) and Deadly Friend being a close second as i think that was awesome.

But i think the older WC gets the less he makes good movies which is a shame as he made some amazing movies back in the day.

Last House On The Left. That's all that needs to be said IMO :clap:

It was really difficult choice, but I went with A Nightmare on Elm Street as, in terms of quality, it's a better made film than The Last House on the Left and it was really a coin toss decision between Nightmare on Elm Street and The Hills Have Eyes.

Same here and is definitely my favourite film from Craven. It walks a fine line between fantasy and reality, dealing as it does wth an alleged true story. Some of it is a bit hard to swallow - but you know what they say, Ruth is stranger than Richard. Sorry, that's not it.....truth is stranger than fiction! :lol:

So yes, Serpent gets my vote. I do like the Freddy films, they're like panto horror as the series rolls on, and I kind of dig that. Don't know why exactly, but I do.

Found this DEADLY FRIEND gif. while browsing online:

http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...adlyfriend.gif

Together on the big screen at The Regent Street Cinema, London, W1B 2UW on August 17th

A Nightmare on Elm Street (18.30)
The Hills Have Eyes (20.30)

https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/p...on-elm-street/

Nice double bill!

Would love to have seen HILLS on the big screen!

Found this online today about Hills have eyes.


Here why they have a hills have eyes poster in Evil dead the scene

The Hills Have Eyes is admired by fellow horror filmmakers, so much so that one of them—Evil Dead director Sam Raimi—chose to pay homage to it in a strange way. In the scene in which Brenda is quivering in bed after having been brutalized by Pluto and Mars, a ripped poster for Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is visible above her head. Raimi saw it as a message.

“I took it to mean that Wes Craven … was saying ‘Jaws was just pop horror. What I have here is real horror.’”

As a joking response to the scene, Raimi put a ripped poster for The Hills Have Eyes in his now-classic film The Evil Dead (1981). Not to be outdone, Craven responded by including a clip from The Evil Dead in his classic A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).

And afterwards they hung Freddys glove in the workshed in evil dead 2 it was also included in the cellar in ash vs evil dead