Creators of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” – Director Wes Craven is dead – Süddeutsche.de

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• The American film director Wes Craven has died at the age of 76 years.
• He suffered from a brain tumor, as his family in Los Angeles announced.
• Craven had become famous with movies like “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Scream”.

Wes Craven is dead

The cult horror films like” A Nightmare on Elm Street “and” Scream “became famous director Wes Craven is dead. He died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 76 years, his family announced. Accordingly Craven suffered from a brain tumor. He was a prolific writer, director and film producer -. And a pioneer

So he breathed in the genre of the teen horror film with the shocker “A Nightmare on Elm Street” new life and brought the way the then unknown Johnny Depp large out who got a major role in the strip. Craven was not just in horror specialist at home: He directed the drama “Music of the Heart”, the Meryl Streep earned an Academy Award nomination

The first major film in 1972

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Born was Wesley Earl “Wes” Craven on. 2 August 1939 in Cleveland in the US state of Ohio. At the John Hopkins University he obtained a Master in Philosophy and Literature and hired himself out in Pennsylvania and in New York for a short time as a college professor. Soon he moved to film. His first attempts in the porn industry, where he worked under a pseudonym.

Cravens first major feature film came in 1972 out under the name “The Last House on the Left”. In the horror film is about a teenage girl who is kidnapped by thugs into the woods. The production cost only $ 87,000 and was so drastic that it was banned in many countries – the film nevertheless became a hit

“A Nightmare on Elm Street” helped Craven in 1984 to glory.. In the movie villain Freddy Krueger and Nightmare-ridden teenagers followed several sequels, the last remake came 2010 in the cinemas. Several editions were also of Cravens hit movie “Scream” in 1996.

Craven survived by his wife, the producer Iya Labunka, a son, a daughter and a stepdaughter.

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