RIP Wes Craven.

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This sucks, I would have to say along with SK, Wes Craven was one of the largest influences in my childhood years. I have enjoyed and re-watched countless movies of his. Last House on the Left is an absolute horror masterpiece, pretty nasty piece of work there. I could go on and on naming his movies, but lets just say this is a HUGE loss in the Horror genre. The fact that George A. Romero is alive and Wes is gone is crazy to me.
 
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The Space Cowboy said:
I'm flabbergasted. This thread is my very first learning of it. RIP to a guy who scared the ever loving crap out of me with films like Nightmare on Elm Street and Hills Have Eyes. He seemed like a real classy and gentlemanly fellow. It's a shame because I don't know if anyone saw this, but just the other week, Tarantino was trashing Craven over his direction of Scream, saying that Craven was the ball and chain that prevented Scream from becoming truly great (yeah, I mean, it's not like Scream isn't considered a game changer and one of the best horror films ever pfffft). I'll bet he feels like a royal dick, right about now. But anyways, just to reiterate: quite saddened over this guy's passing.
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Tarantino is a total Dick, period. And Considering the influences and shared friends I find it hard to believe he wasn't aware in some capacity that Wes was on his Deathbed.
 
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Maskins said:
Gutted. RIP dude.

I will have to disagree with good sir muskrat - I loved the Scream movies (at least the Scream 1 and 2 - not so keen on the 3 and haven't seen 4), though I am not sure they have aged well. They helped get me into horror as they came at just the right time. I was a teen then who thought horror movies were largely lame because they were (at that stage) all the same and silly. Then along comes these too movies that blows open the slasher genre and delivers some good scares too. Very clever.
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It's all cool and the gang, mr. Maskins. Different strokes for different strokes.

My thing is that I cut my teeth on all the old classic slasher gore flicks from the seventies and early eighties. Some time around 85 the MPAA cracked down on horror movies, thus, for years afterward, horror flicks became tame and practically bloodless. Scream falls into that category. Anybody who thinks those flicks are gory need to pull a Fulci, Romero, Hooper, Bava film festival.

But, you know, just my opinion. I've always been a snide, critical gore lovin bastard. It was all those Fangos and Tales From The Crypts I read in my youth.
 
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My brother told me about this earlier today and I thought he was kidding. I wish he had been. I just watched "A Nightmare on Elm Street" a few nights ago and it reminded me of just how great of a film that was. It might be the greatest horror movie of modern times.

I picked up a copy of "The People Under the Stairs" several months ago and kept putting off watching it. I'll be watching that tonight. It's the least I can do as tribute.
 
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Aw, man, this bites it! Saw the announcement on the 'ticker tape' on TV this morning and it hurt. Did anyone catch the nod to Hitchcock in the first 'Scream' movie? Wes killed off the biggest star (at that time), Drew Barrymore, in the first ten minutes, just like Hitch did in Psycho with Janet Leigh. Man, this hurts.....
 
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muskrat said:
It's just his opinion, of which he's entitled. Yeah, he can be a d*ck, but hey--I'd much rather watch one of his flicks than anything Craven did past the first Nightmare.
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eh, With the exception of Kill Bill, Tarantino hasn't done anything worth a sh*t since Pulp Fiction. Just my opinion.

I would rather watch, Shocker, The people under the stairs or Scream (all post Nightmare) than anything Tarantino has done lately.
 
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Can we all please have a moratorium on the 'bashing' of someone who has just passed? The RIP threads are not meant for someone(s) to start criticizing the person who has just died, they are here for those who liked or loved the individual who has just died. If you don't have anything good to say about said person, then don't say anything about them. RIP means Rest In Peace and when someone is bashing the deceased, then that poor soul is not going to be at Peace. It's abit disheartening to come into these threads and read negative comments about a dead person. I pledge from here on that I will not do anything like this, if I have done it in the past myself then I am sorry and ask for forgiveness. Those of us who visit these threads (the RIP ones) don't want to have our burden of grief added to by someone bashing the subject of the thread. These RIP threads are not the place to let others know that you didn't care for or like the deceased. I'm probably going to be jumped on for this post, but that's the price one pays for standing up for something. I'm not trying to make enemies, just pointing out that we need to have some decorum in these threads- there are true fans who are grieving the loss of the person who is the subject of the RIP threads. Decorum- it's all I'm asking or. Thanks.
 
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kingricefan said:
Can we all please have a moratorium on the 'bashing' of someone who has just passed? The RIP threads are not meant for someone(s) to start criticizing the person who has just died, they are here for those who liked or loved the individual who has just died. If you don't have anything good to say about said person, then don't say anything about them. RIP means Rest In Peace and when someone is bashing the deceased, then that poor soul is not going to be at Peace. It's abit disheartening to come into these threads and read negative comments about a dead person. I pledge from here on that I will not do anything like this, if I have done it in the past myself then I am sorry and ask for forgiveness. Those of us who visit these threads (the RIP ones) don't want to have our burden of grief added to by someone bashing the subject of the thread. These RIP threads are not the place to let others know that you didn't care for or like the deceased. I'm probably going to be jumped on for this post, but that's the price one pays for standing up for something. I'm not trying to make enemies, just pointing out that we need to have some decorum in these threads- there are true fans who are grieving the loss of the person who is the subject of the RIP threads. Decorum- it's all I'm asking or. Thanks.
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I think this is a very fair request. We have other areas of the MB for that kind of discussion. :)
 
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