Monday, August 31, 2015

On the death of horror director Wes Craven: blood, blood and more blood – Tagesspiegel

15:26 clock From Alexandra Belopolsky <- self.position eq 1 -> <- inteaserpicposition:! 1 -> <- self.position: 1 -> <- classid:! hcf center -> <- position: center -> <- text position: hcf text-left -> <- inhaspic: true ->

Wes Craven horror classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street” has an entire generation no longer sleep leave. Now the cult director died with 76 years.

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Do you like scary movies? If so, you certainly are at least one film by Wes Craven on their favorites list at the forefront. The American director and screenwriter has peopled with his eyes in the depths of the soul, the same nightmares several generations. Now he has died with 76 years a brain tumor.

A first major success landed Wes Craven with his first own film, “The Last House on the Left”. Vaguely inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s “The Virgin Spring”, in a couple takes revenge on three young men for the violent murder of their daughter. Craven blew so once the limits of the horror genre. He renounced fantastic monsters and dergleich more and sat on nothing more than the pure violence. It shocked alone the assertion at the beginning of the film, this is based on a true story.

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1984 was Craven in “Nightmare on Elm Street “the child murderer Freddy Krueger drive to mischief in which this creeps into dreams and takes revenge on innocent people here for combustion when alive. Accompanied by the slogan of his loan, “Whatever you do, do not fall asleep,” Craven blurred by camera movement confusing the boundaries between fantasy and reality, between dreams and nightmares. A whole generation should then lie awake in bed at night and pray that the Sandman does not turn out to be the man with the claws. With the Krueger character and her red-green-striped sweater Craven personalized one of the oldest fears – the fear that the death in a dream is a real death. Freddy Krueger still became a cult figure; “Nightmare on Elm Street” is a prime example of an intelligent, deeply psychologically acting horror film. However, the sequels were always satirical, there are now no fewer than eight of them writes !, and also the effects look a bit silly and dowdy in times of 3D. More serious is that even puts the original with modern viewing full of clichés. Hollywood horror genre is permeated by a highly conservative sexual morality. Especially female figures who have extramarital sex are punishable by death.

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Blood! It’s always blood!

Wes Craven criticized this bigotry in 1996 highest self. In “Scream” written by Kevin Williamson, he worked all sorts of horror stereotypes with one, even those of which he himself had made use, made fun of it and tried to do so – of course without success. Finally, is also “Scream” a horror movie, and the villain must never really die in it. Moreover, Craven knew only too well, as he once confessed in an interview: “It’s always blood blood Because the people shouting That has not changed in recent decades!…” Hard to imagine how the modern horror film would look like it had not given Wes Craven. One thing is clear – the genre would have been much more boring.

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