[Niamh.]

aw RIP to him, he was a true horror legend

[Marc]

American horror film director Wes Craven, creator of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, has died aged 76.

US media reported that Craven died at his Los Angeles home on Sunday from brain cancer.

Craven wrote and directed A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. His Scream franchise was reported to have grossed more than $100m (£65m) in the US.
He wrote, directed and edited his first film, The Last House on the Left, in 1972.
A tweet from his Twitter account featured a picture of him with the dates 1939-2015.

Craven was credited with reinventing the teen horror genre when the first film featuring Freddy Krueger was released in 1984 starring a then-unknown Johnny Depp.

He had more recently signed deals to develop television programmes, including the new Scream series for MTV. He had also been working on a graphic horror novel series.

Reflecting on his career, he once said in an interview: "I tried to make movies where I can honestly say I haven't seen that before and to follow my deepest intuitions and in some cases literally my dreams."

Actors posted tributes on social media including actress Courtney Cox, who starred in Craven's 1996 Scream and appeared in the franchise's three subsequent films.

She said: "Today the world lost a great man, my friend and mentor, Wes Craven. My heart goes out to his family. x"

Rose McGowan, who also featured in the original Scream, said: "Thank you for being the kindest man, the gentlest man, and one of the smartest men I've known. Please say there's a plot twist."

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Its so weird 3 days ago I had the urge to watch A Nightmare On Elm Street.

I had no idea he was ill i'm devastated, this guy made my childhood! What a legend!

Rest in peace Wes Thanks for giving us Freddy the dude literally created an icon as big as Santa Clause.

Now lets hope they scrap the remake of anoes that's in production and re release the original to theatres infact anoes to me has allways seemed like a trilogy part 1. part 3 and New Nightmare are all perfect and gel together brilliantly because his stamp is all over them (he even starred in New Nightmare) and the other sequels can be totally disregarded imo.

Im in Hollywood Sunday and throughout September if his funerals held there i'll be outside with many other horror fans im sure.

[andybigbro]

This is really sad loved his films

Rip

[Dollface]

Omg This is such sad news May he rest in peace <3

[Amy Jade]

oh my god what? no

RIP Wes

[LukeB]

this is sad news tbh </3

what a legend

[arista]

This 7" has gone Up in price now £23 on amazon


Yet a BluRay 1-7 box set (plays all regions) is only £20

[Suze]

R.I.P Wes.

Never knew he was ill.

[empire]

craven is a very clever man, before he made nightmare on elm street, one day he read in the paper that a pair of cambodian refugees in america died because of there nightmares, because of pol pots torture regime, some refused to sleep because the nightmares made it even more real, because of what they had suffered, he is the last of the master of horror, no one can remake in what he made.