R.I.P., Wes Craven.

[rogueslayer452]

Wes Craven passed away yesterday.

As a lover of horror, I've been a huge fan of his work, with the A Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream franchises being my absolute favorites. Wes Craven was quite a legendary writer and filmmaker in his own right, creating such cult features like The Hills Have Eyes and The Last House On The Left, and he managed to not only capture the essence of but also reinvented, redefined and just in general made a tremendous impact on the horror genre. He created some of the most iconic figures in horror, such as Freddy Kreuger and Ghostface. He brought us some amazing women heroines such as Nancy Thompson and Sidney Prescott, both who weren't mere helpless victims but who were intelligent and resourceful, who showed vulnerability but were still powerful and strong in their own right. Something I deeply admired when watching those films for the first time. Seeing young, female protagonists outsmarting the main villains for once, that left a huge impression on me at a young age. Overall, I genuinely really loved his work, so hearing the news was quite devastating.

We lost not just someone so influential to modern horror cinema, we also lost an amazing human being who had a brilliant mind. Rest in peace, Wes.

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[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I remember getting introduced to Scream at a sleepover I was at during junior high, and since then I was completely sold with the rest of the franchise. Of course I absorbed a lot of horror movies around that time, but Scream was one of those that I got really obsessed with. The mixture of horror and humor, how self-aware the characters were, how it took the genre and turned it on its head. It was one of the most redefining films of modern horror at the time, and I absolutely love it.

Even the sequels that followed after, Wes managed to take what was expected and twist it into something else. His innovation of these kinds of stories was monumental to not just his career but for the industry in general, and he will certainly be missed.