The man who scared audiences for decades, Wes Craven, died of brain cancer Sunday at the age of 76.
Craven was best known for his films “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Scream.” Craven’s family announced his death Sunday afternoon.
After all but rebooting the teen horror genre in the 1980s with the phenomenally successful “Elm Street” film, Craven revised the genre once again in the late 1990s with the self-aware “Scream” series of films, which riffed on the very horror conventions Craven (and other filmmakers) codified more than a decade earlier.
Craven’s other films included the horror classics “The Hills Have Eyes,” the still-controversial rape-revenge movie ‘The Last House on the Left” and the under-known “The Serpent and the Rainbow” as well as “The People Under the Stairs,” “Vampire in Brooklyn,” “Swamp Thing” and others.
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