Among Wes Craven’s filmography, 1991’s The People Under the Stairs stands out as a seminal slice of social satire cloaked in horror. While the 80s saw Craven perfecting self-aware teen slashers via A Nightmare on Elm Street, this manic cult classic showcased his evolution into more subversive, politically-charged territory in …
The 1990s stand as a landmark decade for horror, breathing new life into the genre following a perceived slump in the late 80s. Trailblazing films and filmmakers emerged to push boundaries and freshen stagnant formulas. Tropes were subverted, tones shifted darker, and diversity surged both behind and in front of …
Among horror’s rogues gallery of slasher killers, few rival Freddy Krueger for sheer icon status. His anarchic spirit, darkly comedic menace, and supernaturally-charged murders have haunted audiences for decades. But a memorable movie monster requires creative alchemy. For Freddy, a killer concept aligned with clever writing and an indelible performance …
Among all the traditions horror broke and reinvented during the 1990s, perhaps none proved more impactful than a surge in self-referential “meta” horror. Films like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Urban Legend gleefully dismantled genre tropes, commenting knowingly on clichés even as they deployed them for …
Among all the slick, sarcastic teen screamfests of late 90s horror, Wes Craven’s smash-hit Scream stands apart as the most incisively influential. Released in 1996, Scream playfully skewered and celebrated the slasher genre’s derivative clichés and tired tropes even as it expertly weaponized them in classic Craven fashion. The script’s …
As a lifelong horror devotee, the 1990s hold a special place for me as a transitional decade that radically reshaped genre conventions on the brink of a new millennium. Following the lucrative slasher boom of the 1980s, the 90s saw seismic shifts in studio priorities, cultural tastes, and what mainstream …
Among Wes Craven’s filmography, 1994’s New Nightmare remains criminally underappreciated for its ahead-of-its-time meta-horror storytelling. After fatigue set in across six ponderous Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, Craven returned to restore creative passion by deconstructing Freddy Krueger’s cinematic realm through a story set in “the real world.” New Nightmare shattered …
Here’s your chance to own a piece of historic horror movie history. The home, which was featured in Wes Craven’s 1984 film “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” has been listed for sale once again. Since Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and its sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street …
It has been 15 years since the film was created and brought to Hollywood by Wes Craven. After staying up late one night I decided to watch the film in HD for the first time since my original DVD viewing of the film, I can say that the movie looks …
In a recent Instagram post Cox writes that Wes Craven would be very proud of the new work and all the effort that went into creating the new Scream movie. This post comes as the filming for Scream 5 has wrapped up and is now completed. Scream just wrapped. This …
With ‘Candyman’ completed, Jordan Peele now appears to be setting his sights on Wes Craven’s, ‘The People Under the Stairs.’ This decision shouldn’t come as a shock to many, as Peele has been open about his admiration of this film over the years. Back in 2017, Peele programmed a BAM …
Once upon a time there existed a bootleg version of the movie Halloween 6 he Curse of Michael Myers, this version included a very different story line then the one most people are used to seeing, however if you were watching television in the 90s you may have seen the …
