Monday, August 31, 2015

It's not only a movie: a tribute to Wes Craven

From The Last House on the Left to A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and beyond, Craven used his films’ status as horror – that low, disreputable genre, perhaps never lower and more disreputable than it was in the early 1970s when Craven first broke ground in it – to carry off flourishes of concept and craft that would be impossible in a more respectable mode of filmmaking. His films may have been only movies, but there was nothing only about them.

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