(AFP ) – Author cult sagas “Scream” and “Freddy”, US director Wes Craven, who died Sunday at age 76 of cancer, was an undisputed master of horror cinema, but he reiterated in which he sometimes felt trapped.
“He reinvented twice the genre of horror film, with + Scream + and + Freddy +,” said Richard Potter, producer and screenwriter who worked with him on the set of “Scream” .
The director, to whom we owe the cult figure of the psychopath disfigured Freddy Krueger, and then that of the killer ghost mask “Scream”, was “a brilliant man, nice, sweet and very funny “said on Twitter Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger interpreter.
It was” a great man, my friend and mentor, “tweeted the actress Courtney Cox, one of the heroines of” Scream. ” “It was a great filmmaker and his work will live forever,” added Bob Weinstein, producer of the “Scream”.
The man with soft eyes and fine white beard, which frightened many generations, was found by chance in the world of terror, with his first film in 1972, “The Last House on the Left, “a violent and polemical work.
” They asked me to make this film and it worked very well. So I found myself tagged director of horror films the day the next day, “he explained to AFP.
Born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, graduate of philosophy, Wes Craven has taught several years before working in a production house.
He embarks achieving 33 years with “The Last House on the Left” and recurrence five years later with “The Hills Have Eyes”.
He returned in 1980 with “Deadly Blessing” and in 1984 with “The Elm Street”, the first episode of the adventures of Freddy, the iconic character burned face, with steel claws and striped sweater, which earned him success.
Of the nine films about Freddy, most other directors signed, it will lead to another, “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare” in 1994, another success.
– “Creativity and self-deprecating” –
In 1996, his career knows a summit with “Scream”, his biggest success at the box office including David Arquette, he realized three suites (in 1997, 2000 and 2011). This series phenomenon reported $ 600 million in revenue worldwide.
“Scream”, which portrays the characters stalked by a mysterious serial killer in white mask, Wes Craven “has played with all the codes of horror films,” said Alexa Zangrilli, Editor Chief of the French site films-horreur.com.
He also “updated the mode + + slasher” genre was born in the 70s and featuring a killer who eliminates a group of individuals, she says. Wes Craven, the universe again “dream” and that was proof of “creativity and self-deprecating,” he “was one of three great masters of the horror movie from the 50s with John Carpenter and George Romero “.
Wes Craven has also ventured out of the kind of film with” The Music of the Heart “(1999), a melodrama starring Meryl Streep, or the psychological thriller” Red Eye “(2005) . He tried also to the romantic comedy sketches with a film short film “I love you Paris” (2006).
Producer, screenwriter and occasional actor, he also directed several episodes the fantasy series “The Fifth Dimension” (“The Twilight Zone”) in the 80s.
Discoverer of talents, he offered his screen debut with Johnny Depp in “Nightmare on Elm night “and gave one of their leading roles to Sharon Stone (” Deadly Blessing “) and Bruce Willis (” The Fifth Dimension “)
& gt. Come discuss and ask questions on our forums!
No comments:
Post a Comment