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 ).

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In 1989, Jones starred in Wes Craven's short-lived CBS sitcom The People Next Door, where he played a cartoonist whose imagination could make things come to life.

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.

It was director Wes Craven's only foray outside of the horror / thriller genre aside from his contribution to the multifaceted and directorially diverse Paris, je t ' aime.

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.

In 1989, she had a cameo role as a victim in Wes Craven's Shocker.

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

; Silver Guardians: A private security force funded by Wes ' father and later led by Eric that protected Silver Hills from Ransik's mutants, but for profit.

* Wes Craven directed the 1977 movie The Hills Have Eyes, which sets the cannibal clan in modern-day America ; a 2006 remake of the film was made by Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur and reimagined the cannibal clan as deformed mutants.

Stanford appeared in the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes.

The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American exploitation-horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman and Dee Wallace.

: So as a joke and as an homage to Wes Crawen I took a Hills Have Eyes poster and in Evil Dead I put it in the cellar in one of the sets.

A red-eyed mutant who attacked Silver Hills before being brought down by Wes, Lucas, Katie and Jen using their V-Weapons.

* He Chose The Nails ; Kim Hill, Natalie Grant, Jeff Deyo, Twila Paris, Wes King, Oak Hills Church Choir ; Glenn Wagner, Ozzie Mills ; Ozzie Mills ; Here To Him

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.

#" Brown Eyes " ( Wes Farrell, Danny Janssen )

Wes Hart ( born September 14, 1977, in Hollister, California ) is an American soccer defender, who played six season in Major League Soccer with the Colorado Rapids and San Jose Earthquakes.

In 2006, Cohen was included in the Masters of Horror TV anthology, which also included-but was not limited to-writers and directors as diverse as Dario Argento, Clive Barker, John Carpenter, Richard Chizmar, Don Coscarelli, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Joe Dante, Guillermo Del Toro, Ernest Dickerson, Stuart Gordon, James Gunn, Sam Hamm, Tom Holland, Tobe Hooper, Lloyd Kaufman, Mary Lambert, John Landis, Joe R. Lansdale, Bentley Little, H. P.

One of RHS ' most illustrious grads is former Texas high school mile champion and current Texas Tech head track and field coach Wes Kittley.

The current Guinness World Record for world's longest leg hair belongs to Wes Pemberton of Tyler, Texas at 6. 5 inches ( 16. 51 cm ).

On August 22, 2007, Wes Littleton earned a save with the largest winning margin ever, pitching the last three innings of a 30 – 3 Texas Rangers victory win over the Baltimore Orioles.

After graduating from St. John's, Wes Anderson attended the University of Texas at Austin.

Tripping Daisy was a neo psychedelic pop rock band that was formed in Dallas, Texas, USA by lead singer / guitarist Tim DeLaughter in 1990 along with Jeff Bouck ( drums ), Wes Berggren ( guitar ) and Mark Pirro ( bass ).

Wes Hamilton ( born April 24, 1953 in Texas City, Texas ) is a former American football offensive lineman who was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the 3rd round in the 1976 NFL Draft.

Pallana owned a coffee shop, Cosmic Cup ( now Cosmic Cafe ), in Dallas, Texas where Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson frequented.

* Wes Patten ( born 1974 ), Australian rugby league footballer