"I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifting stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars." -- Wes Craven
Wes Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio on 08-02-1939. Craven is best known for his involvement with the burnt maniac from the Nightmare On Elm Street movies; Freddy Krueger. Craven attended Wheaton College and earned a B.A. in Psychology and Education. He also later went on to earn a M.A. in Philosphy at Johns Hopkins. Before the movies; Craven was a college professor which he later quit and became a taxi driver.
Wes Craven's first movie was Last House on the Left which was made in 1972. This movie turned out to be a classic. He then followed in the same path with The Hills Have Eyes in 1977 and then the world was afraid to fall asleep with A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. After that Craven was involved with many more films but none were as memorable as his first three; but all of that changed in 1996 when Craven played with our minds again in the chiller SCREAM. Craven re-invented teen horror films.
