Wes Craven

Wes Craven’s directorial debut. A remake of Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring.

A murderous clan of cannibalistic savages descends upon an unwitting family stranded in the desert.

A young woman and her visiting friends find themselves caught between a hostile religious sect and a neighbor the sect has accused of being an Incubus demon.

Ray Wise plays a scientist working deep in the swamp on a top-secret government project. Adrienne Barbeau plays a government agent who arrives on-site. Sparks fly between her and Wise, but before the romance can blossom, a James Bondesque supervillain played by Louis Jordan raids Wise’s lab. This results in a freak accident that transforms Wise into a half-plant/half-man thing. The Swamp Thing. Gifted with superhuman strength and regenerative abilities, the Swamp Thing sets out protecting Barbeau from Jordan and his goons.

Wes, what have you done? You return to your independent roots after two studio efforts (Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing) and deliver a tepid, inane mess. Was this a paycheck gig? Was the film wrested away from you? The truth fades, but your “written and directed by” credit remains.

Nightmares plague a group of suburban teens. A common figure haunts their dreams. He wears a tattered fedora hat and striped sweater. Burn marks cover his face and he has razor blades for fingernails.

Paul, a teenage prodigy in robotics and artificial intelligence, reanimates his teenage neighbor Sam by implanting his pet robot’s processor into her brain after she’s rendered brain dead by her abusive alcoholic father.

Six years after the original film, Nancy Thompson returns to help the last of the Elm Street children—now teenagers confined to a psychiatric hospital—battle Freddy Krueger.

When is a zombie movie not a zombie movie?

With his family facing eviction, a young boy living in the L.A. ghetto agrees to help rob his slumlord landlords, only to discover their suburban home holds untold horrors.

A masked killer terrorizes a group of slasher-movie-aware teenagers in a small California town.

The survivors of the first film, now in college, struggle to identify a copycat killer carving through the student body.

Seeking to lure Sidney Prescott out of hiding, Ghostface carves his way through the cast of a horror movie based on her life.

Jay and Silent Bob head to Hollywood to sabotage the production of a movie based on their likenesses.

When Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro to promote her memoir, Ghostface begins carving through everyone around her.