In this WOW exclusive, the brilliant Wes Craven (who passed away Sunday at the age of 76) talks about the reasons for the various clichés in horror movies (i.e. slutty kids die/virgins live, the heroes always ignore the obvious warning signs, the bigger and slower the killer the more likely they are to catch their victim…). The raw footage is from a series WOW did for VH1 called Super Secret Movie Rules in 2004. Check it out below.
From THR:
Wes Craven, the famed maestro of horror known for the Nightmare on Elm Streetand Scream franchises, died Sunday after a battle with brain cancer. He was 76.
Craven, whose iconic Freddy Krueger character horrified viewers for years, died at his home in Los Angeles, his family announced. Survivors include his wife, producer and former Disney Studios vice president Iya Labunka.
Craven’s first feature film was The Last House on the Left, which he wrote, directed and edited in 1972. A rape-revenge movie, it appalled some viewers but generated big box office. Next came another film he wrote and helmed, The Hills Have Eyes (1977).
Craven re-invented the youth horror genre in 1984 with the classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, which he wrote and directed.
He conceived and co-wrote Elm Street III as well, and then after not being involved with other sequels, deconstructed the genre a decade after the original, writing and directing Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, which was nominated for best feature at the 1995 Spirit Awards.His own Nightmare players, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon, portrayed themselves in that film.
In 1996, Craven reached a new level of success with the release of Scream. The film grossed more than $100 million domestically, as did Scream 2 (1997).
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