Writer,
producer, and director Wes Craven has successfully
tapped into he horror vein for over thirty years,
serving up scary, funny, hip thrillers that demand a
second look. His films have been both crucial and
commercial successes, most notably 'A Nightmare On
Elm Street' which spawned a series of sequels and
made Craven (and his creation, Freddy Krueger) an
international sensation in the eighties. But
Craven's films have also become classics in a field
that he continues to reinvent the horror genre is
still reeling from the impact of his most recent
project, the brilliant 'Scream' series.
With 'Screams and Nightmares', author Brian J. Robb
cover's Craven's entire career, from his low-budget
beginnings to his most recent box office hits. Every
Craven film is covered from the banned thriller
'Last House On The Left' and the cult classic 'The
Hills Have Eyes' to the outrageous 'Shocker' and
'The People Under The Stairs'. Through exclusive
interviews with Craven, Robb provides in-depth
accounts of the making of each of the films, and
concludes with a section of the director's up and
coming projects.
With a full
filmography and more than 200 black & White
photographs, many from the director's own
collection, 'Screams and Nightmares' is quite simply
the only book of it's kind. |
