The Metal Community Remembers Horror Icon Wes Craven
Defining an entire era of horror is noteworthy, but defining three is impressive. Not only did director Wes Craven do just that, he did so with a level of grace and imagination that any artist has to admire. With his first two films, The Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes, Craven revealed to the world panicked, paranoid depictions of America’s fear of itself in the ragged ’70s. With 1984’s A Nightmare On Elm Street, he changed cinema with the invention of the ultimate boogeyman, the burn-scarred, knife-handed child murderer Freddy Krueger. And the in the ’90s, he turned the camera inward and showed us the pop culture-obsessed maniac in us all with the polished slasher Scream (and unwitting inspired a series of iffy imitations — S...
