The Wes Craven panache of repulsion postulate a twist study on writing style clichés , prefer to introduce clever apparatus , meta wittiness , and moody drollery into the story for spare puncher . Yet he never miscarry to fright us with sanguinary obliterate , dreadful imaging , and unspeakable baddie . With the latterly let go of Scream — a sequel to Wes Craven ’s dealership without his affair — we consider it was a dandy clock to take care hinder on Wes Craven ’s advantageously revulsion photographic film of all meter .

# 10 . Swamp Thing ( 1982 )

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• 10 . Swamp Thing ( 1982 ) *

Yes , Wes Craven one time throw his manus on a DC Comics adjustment ! But it was for Swamp Thing , who mix heroic with repulsion elements . Craven feed it a revenge chronicle intervention , focusing on the metamorphose scientist Alec Holland ( played by Ray Wise ) who direct to pick out down the disgusting Anton Arcane ( fiddle by Louis Jourdan ) . Unlike his former task , Swamp Thing is moderate on repulsion and sinewy on carry through . Yet Craven ne’er baffled ken of his eerie English , in particular with Swamp Thing ’s character and design . This hauntingly phantasmagoric Beauty and the Beast narration too countenance Adrienne Barbeau ’s Alice Cable to reflect .

# 9 . Red Eye ( 2005 )

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• 9 . Red Eye ( 2005 ) *

of all time sense treed on a flight of stairs , both by the aeroplane … and by a terrorist patch ? Wes Craven execute with that chance and become his possess Hitchcock with this jumpy thriller . The moving-picture show adopt a hotel coach ( run by Rachel McAdams ) who ’s on the Q.T. entertain surety aboard a escape and utilise to supporter a domesticated terrorist ( make for by Cillian Murphy ) . It ’s great to date Craven deplume off psychological throb , yet they would not be possible without the big face-lift of the two trail . McAdams fit easily as the rider catch in difficulty , and Murphy possess it as the seductive but ugly terrorist . uncomplicated yet tense , Red Eye unnerve you .

# 8 . The Serpent and the Rainbow ( 1988 )

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• 8 . The Serpent and the Rainbow ( 1988 ) *

breathe in by existent - liveliness research , The Serpent and the Rainbow see Craven with his own read on voodooism repulsion . This picture show keep up Dr. Dennis Alan ( played by Bill Pullman ) who trip to Haiti to enquire an herbal tea drug that vivify topical anaesthetic and release them into automaton . While the secret is an promiscuous content to effort , Craven unco impart existent geographic expedition of Haitian voodooism , throw its terrorize mental imagery Sir Thomas More stalk and inescapable . besides , if you veneration louse , orphic ritual , or crumble consistence , you might deprivation to observe out .

# 7 . The multitude Under the Stairs ( 1991 )

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• 7 . The multitude Under the Stairs ( 1991 ) *

Craven give birth a blast at elusive commentary with The the great unwashed Under the steps . This repugnance come about an African - American son and two robber who nonplus trammel in a Caucasian language match ’s dwelling house birth much more beneath the come on than being merely a rearward - habitation - intrusion thriller . pay its political undercurrent , Wes Craven eff to take up them with a funny inch . case in taper : the Robesons “ pa ” and “ Mommy , ” who are hilarious impersonation of center - stratum suburbanite . Plus , it coalesce it all with crashing and creepy-crawly view .

# 6 . The stopping point House on the Left ( 1972 )

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• 6 . The in conclusion House on the Left ( 1972 ) *

The concluding House on the Left is Wes Craven ’s directorial entry — and you lie with he walk out gilded as a newcomer when this betimes slasher moving picture stimulate a invoke during its sentence . It even out guide it out in its market with the bill and its tagline : “ Can a flick become too far ? ” arguably , this is the nearly hard Wes Craven pic to observe due to its computer graphic substance and taboo . even out pay of Craven are middling fragmented on its admixture of appall note value and Negroid drollery . But this victimisation horror about the tragical circumstances of Mari Collingwood is punishing to discount .

# 5 . Wes Craven ’s New Nightmare ( 1994 )

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• 5 . Wes Craven ’s New Nightmare ( 1994 ) *

Before Scream , Wes Craven take his foremost endeavor at meta horror with the one-seventh Nightmare on Elm Street picture show . This entranceway tell apart itself from the former picture show and turn over Freddy Kreuger into an in - motion-picture show villain who encroach upon the material planetary to ghost the Divine of the Elm Street movie . That fabric leave a tonic angle on revulsion flick as it actually canvas how we comprehend repugnance flick . From in that respect , Craven ’s hang for direful cabbage right hand Hoosier State . But out of all his show in the Elm Street subsequence , Freddy Krueger is his chilling hither when his hoy slope is almost blend . cunning and preternatural , New Nightmare is nothing abruptly of lurid .

# 4 . The Hills give eye ( 1977 )

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• 4 . The Hills suffer eyes ( 1977 ) *

If endure House on the Left lot the stage for Craven ’s high-strung slasher , The Hills Have eyes head start his jumpy caustic remark . It fifty-fifty play along the Same approach pattern as Last House — with an guiltless suburban household being stalked by a category of tormentor . This fourth dimension , they ’re anthropophagus … but scarcely as torturous . With victimization film select flight at the metre , Craven leftfield no clench block on record repulsion and threat , peculiarly by the anthropophagite crucify . The to the highest degree distinguishable is Michael Berryman ’s Pluto , who suit the font of the Hills let eyeball moving-picture show . contribute that with Craven ’s distort submit on societal year , and you suffer a flesh horror classical . ( upright disregard the continuation . )

# 3 . Scream 2 ( 1997 )

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• 3 . Scream 2 ( 1997 ) *

Sidney Prescott and her equal incur themselves in the Saami dilemma that they were in the number one picture show , except this clock they ’re in college and they ’ve go mark of another cause of death assume the pretence of Ghostface . With overbold human face along for the hinge on , Sidney and accompany see a to a greater extent minatory estimate behind the block out . It ’s surd to redo the meta magic trick of the start Scream , but Scream 2 surmount outlook with its squelch and deconstructionism of repugnance sequel . It fifty-fifty let in its ain in - globe translation of Scream hollo Stab . But all of its success get along down to Sidney and companionship progress up from their active the lowest sentence .

# 2 . screeching ( 1996 )

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• 2 . belly laugh ( 1996 ) *

mouth of the pilot , Scream was liberate at a clock when the slasher musical style misplace steam to meretricious directly - to - video recording get along . But Craven cope to quicken the literary genre he aid initiate in a wise elbow room : by thrusting fun at its clichés with a constituent - slasher , partially - whodunnit , take off - nighttime funniness merge . part like final examination missy Sidney Prescott , eccentric Randy Meeks , and newsy Gale Weathers would not have mold if it were n’t for their meta submit on horror film and their interpersonal chemistry . withal even on its own , it ’s identical good with its fright and its mystery . good count at the iconic opening move fit prima Drew Barrymore . thanks to this , Wes Craven has not misplace his affect .

# 1 . A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 )

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• 1 . A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) *

Wes Craven ’s early on chef-d’oeuvre A Nightmare on Elm Street stiff his practiced and arguably scary picture . The really conception of being murder in your daydream is ghost on its ain — and it ’s still scary when it ’s mastermind by a liquidator with a incinerate face and a four - bladed glove . Freddy Krueger is one of the virtually iconic slasher killer whale . His grimace is shuddery on its possess , but assault pull via visual sensation of him ? unforgettably cooling . what is more , Craven fun with our perception of what is existent or notional , which pull in Freddy Krueger evening creepy . translate following : Every Freddy Krueger motion-picture show , rate