Wes Craven's Scream ( written by Kevin Williamson ) movies, starting in 1996, featured teenagers who were fully aware of, and often made reference to, the history of horror movies, and mixed ironic humour with the shocks ( despite Scream 2 and 3 utilising less use of the humour of the original, until Scream 4 in 2011, and rather more references to horror film conventions ).

Wesley Earl " Wes " Craven ( born August 2, 1939 ) is an American film director, writer, producer, actor, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and he also co-wrote A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with Bruce Wagner, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character and has directed the entire Scream series, featuring Ghostface.

After a hiatus, Craven was brought back in Wes Craven's New Nightmare by Wes Craven, who had not worked on the film series since the third film, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

* The film is referenced by Ghostface in Wes Craven's Scream 4 ( 2011 ) as being the first film to " put the audience in the killer's POV.

The 2009 remake of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, and the 2010 remake of the controversial horror film I Spit on Your Grave contained levels of violence that were so brutal in nature, they made the convergence of torture porn with the remake trend very apparent.

Her last role was in Wes Craven's 1981 horror film Deadly Blessing alongside Sharon Stone.

Even films from outside the genre followed suit: Mondo Trasho, Mondo Weirdo: A Trip to Paranoia Paradise, Mondo Keyhole and Mondo Brutale ( actually a German release of Wes Craven's film The Last House on the Left ) all bill themselves as " mondo ", although none are true mondo documentaries.

* Wes Craven's New Nightmare another film with a fictionalized version of a celebrity

Donaldson had a minor role as a secret service agent in Wes Craven's 2005 film Red Eye.

Miko John Hughes ( born February 22, 1986 ) is an American actor best known for his film roles as a child actor as Gage Creed in Pet Sematary ( 1989 ), as an autistic boy opposite Bruce Willis in Mercury Rising ( 1998 ) and as Dylan, Heather Langenkamp's son in Wes Craven's New Nightmare ( 1994 ).

AllMovie gave the film a generally negative review, writing, " It's an intriguing combination of elements, but the end result is a schizoid mess ", calling Craven's direction " awkward " and opining that it " lacks the intense, sustained atmosphere of his previous horror hits.

Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s and is probably best known for her performances in Disney's 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus, Ladybugs, the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's horror picture The Hills Have Eyes, as well as the 2008 romance film Two Lovers, in which she starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Her other screen credits from this era include Barbarians at the Gate ( 1993 ), the 1993 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Tommyknockers, and Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn ( 1995 ).

Other zombie-themed films include Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie ( 1943 ) and Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow, ( 1988 ) a heavily fictionalized account of Wade Davis ' book.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

The slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Child's Play all saw sequels in the 1990s, most of which met with varied amounts of success at the box office, but all were panned by fans and critics, with the exception of Wes Craven's New Nightmare ( 1994 ) and the hugely successful Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).

Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) " owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead ", according to author Barry Keith Grant.

Arguably the most controversial of all exploitation films was Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ).

The slasher genre resurfaced into the mainstream in the mid 1990s, after being deconstructed in Wes Craven's Scream ( 1996 ), which was a parody of Halloween which had a similar effect on the movie industry.

* April 4 – John Craven's Newsround premieres ( 1972 – present, now titled Newsround ) on BBC1.

* A real pre-existing piece of fiction X, being used within a new piece of fiction Y, to lend an air of authenticity to fiction Y, e. g. A Nightmare on Elm Street is discussed extensively in Wes Craven's New Nightmare, while actors from the former star as " themselves " or Scream 3 and Scream 4, where characters discuss and know of films that are about the previous films ' events ; likewise are The 1001 Nights put to use within If on a winter's night a traveler.

He appears in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) as a disfigured serial killer who uses a glove armed with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the waking world as well.

More recently, Saxon may be best known as a supporting player in horror films, most notably Bob Clark's Black Christmas ( 1974 ) as the relatively smart leader of a bunch of dumb cops ; in Dario Argento's Tenebrae ( 1982 ) as the writer hero's shifty agent ; in Mitchell ( 1975 ) as the murderous union lawyer and prostitute provider Walter Deaney ; in Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ) as Sador ; in Cannibal Apocalypse ( 1980 ) where he played a Vietnam veteran tormented because his worthless pal bit him and years later, he is starting to get the urge to do the same ; in Prisoners of the Lost Universe as a alternate-universe warlord, and in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) as the heroine's ( Nancy Thompson's ) father.

He reprised his role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors ( 1987 ) and Wes Craven's New Nightmare ( 1994 ) as he played himself in a dual role.

Much of Craven's inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street came from this first filmmaking experience ; the house in the movie, while not the house used in the first version, resembles this house and also resides on Elm Street.

She continued her role as Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors ( 1987 ), in which she co-starred alongside Patricia Arquette and Laurence Fishburne, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare ( 1994 ), in which she played herself, and through events in the narrative, she is compelled to reprise her role as Nancy Thompson.

Many elements of the plot for Wes Craven's New Nightmare are based on an incident in which Langenkamp was stalked by a fan.

Soon afterwards, Derricks appeared in films such as Moscow on the Hudson, Neil Simon's The Slugger's Wife and recently, Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls.

A running gag on the show is that he is destroyed in almost every episode, presumably to be rebuilt or replaced ( evidenced by Craven's remark in the episode " End of the Line " that he should " just buy spare parts in bulk ".

She recalls that Lucy Mathen, the first female Asian reporter on BBC television, who worked on John Craven's Newsround, was an inspirational figure for her, as was broadcaster Shyama Perera, who was working in Fleet Street at around the same time.

In 1918, Gordon played Lola Pratt in the Broadway adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen opposite actor Gregory Kelly, who later acted with her in North American tours of Frank Craven's The First Year and Tarkington's Clarence and Tweedles.

Every Saturday night, from 1995 to 2000, he would host a pair of horror films ( such as Friday the 13th Part 2 and Wes Craven's New Nightmare ) provide a running commentary, trivia, off-color jokes and a drive-in total.

* Wes Craven's book Fountain Society ( 1999 ) deals with this subject.

The final two books, Wes Craven's New Nightmare and Freddy vs. Jason, were published by Tor Books and Black Flame.

Additionally, Craven's original script characterized Freddy as a child molester, which Craven said was the " worst thing " he could think of.

Craven's inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 11, and the 1970s pop song " Dream Weaver " by Gary Wright.

On the Earl of Craven's death in 1697 the barony of 1627 and the viscountcy and earldom became extinct.

As part of one of Professor Craven's classes, Humanities IV, several Theta Chi members wanted to make a spoof of traditional horror movies, about the strange occurrences in their fraternity's house at 18 Elm Street.

Terrence Malick credits seeing De Palma's early films on college campus tours as a validation of independent film, and subsequently switched his attention from philosophy to filmmaking.

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

Among his various musical credits, Mumy has recorded and written songs with America, toured with Shaun Cassidy, and played in Rick Springfield's band in the film, Hard to Hold.

The credits of the original film say that the film is based on In A Glass Darkly.

Jones credits this cartoon as the film where he " learned how to be funny.

After the credits of Billy Wilder's film Witness for the Prosecution, the cinemagoers are asked not to talk to anyone about the plot so that future viewers will also be able to fully enjoy the unravelling of the mystery.

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

David Huffman ( 10 May 1945 – 27 February 1985 ) was a character actor with many television, film and stage credits.

Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson credits the film as an influence on his novel Neuromancer.

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

In recent years, German production interests have also become very involved with American television and film production to help offset the costs of such productions, as evidenced by the company credits in certain films and TV shows.

: Entertainment Lawyers negotiate contracts, clear licensing rights for any intellectual property used in the film, obtain tax credits from local governments, and take care of immigration paperwork when cast and / or crew cross international borders to shoot on location.

* Deleted: Opening credits ; Moved to the end of the film and changed to white credits against a black background with the original Ifukube cue.

The film uses two versions of the song " Que Sera, Sera ", the first by singer Syd Straw and another over the end credits by Sly and the Family Stone.

The film was unique among other things for the number of books important to and discussed by its characters, most of them listed bibliographically as part of the end credits.

Spacey appeared in the 1995 thriller film Seven, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, making a sudden entrance late in the film as the serial killer John Doe, after going unmentioned in the film's advertisements and opening credits.

Other film credits include Dark Blue, Sugar Hill, Menace II Society, House Party 3, There's Something About Mary, Rain, Poetic Justice, and the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got To Do With It, where she portrayed an Ikette.

She also sang the jazz song " After You've Gone " for the end credits of the film The Cat's Meow ( 2001 ).

Initially, letterboxing was limited to several key sequences of a film ( e. g., opening and closing credits ), but later it was used for the entire film.

Pickford, who entered feature film with two Broadway credits but a far greater following among fans of nickelodeon flickers, became the world's most popular actress in a matter of months.

These scenes were shown after the credits, but were reinserted during the film in the Extended Cut.