What is your favorite Wes Craven film?

[spookychild]

Be kind this is my first thread. Ok what is your favorite Wes Craven film?
This is my list of my favorite Wes Craven
movies
1.) A Nightmare on Elm Street
2.) Red Eye
3.) Last House on the Left
4.) Scream
5.)The Hills Have Eyes

[Zero]

last house on the left - deeply disturbing

[I<3TomWelling]

My favorite Wes Craven movies are the "Scream" trilogy, hands down, but I also like these........

A Nightmare On Elm Street
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Cursed -- yeah, I said it lol, but it's my least favorite of his
Red Eye

[makemebad]

Originally posted by Zero
last house on the left - deeply disturbing

[PR3SSUR3]

Excrete on Scream, big up Shocker.

[urgeok]

i think Nightmare on Elm St. is his best film.

too bad the shitty sequels made a joke out of it because the 1st one was something else at the time of its release.

[AUSTIN316426808]

What I believe to be his best two are also my favorite two.

-The Last House on the Left
-A Nightmare on Elm Street

[PR3SSUR3]

Why would your favourite two be anything else than what you consider his best two?

[urgeok]

well ... sometimes you can have a personal favorite that you can see isnt the best film .. i have some like that .. it hits you on a personal level even though it isnt probably the directors best work ..

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
big up Shocker.

I really like that one too. Hoarce Pinker was a great character.

I'm gonna have to say Deadly Friend for the head exploding scene.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Why would your favourite two be anything else than what you consider his best two?


Basically what urge said.


An example would be...My favorite Nolan film is Batman Begins, but Memento is clearly his best.

[PR3SSUR3]

well ... sometimes you can have a personal favorite that you can see isnt the best film .. i have some like that .. it hits you on a personal level even though it isnt probably the directors best work ..


Gotcha - that explains why even when faced with the renowned Deep Anus Injektor IV and Kraut und Jew: Dwarfenfuckt, I tend to go for Arnold Von Taup's simple but highly enjoyable Kreased Lady acht Pensionvaggina (1996) every time.

:)

[urgeok]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Gotcha - that explains why even when faced with the renowned Deep Anus Injektor IV and Kraut und Jew: Dwarfenfuckt, I tend to go for Arnold Von Taup's simple but highly enjoyable Kreased Lady acht Pensionvaggina (1996) every time.

:)

ja, ja,

but vat about der amputen fukenshtump ?

[mothermold]

Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
-The Last House on the Left
-A Nightmare on Elm Street


These two+"People Under The Stairs" for me.

[bwind22]

1-Nightmare on Elm St.
2-Serpent and the Rainbow
3-People Under the Stairs
4-Scream
5-Hills Have Eyes
6-Last House on the Left
7-New Nightmare
8-Shocker
9-Scream 2
10-Scream 3
11-Cursed
12-Red Eye

That is the order I liked the ones that I have seen.

I can't believe no one mentioned Serpent & the Rainbow.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by bwind22

I can't believe no one mentioned Serpent & the Rainbow.

i enjoyed it - but never thought it was anywhere as inventive and effective as NOES

[slasherman]

Nightmare on Elm St.
Scream
Hills Have Eyes


..and Red Eye was kind of lame...even though the bad guy did and okey job

[The_Return]

Im not a big fan of Craven. NOES, HHE and Scream (to some extent) are great films, but most of his other work leaves me cold.

Has anyone seen Chiller? Easily one of the worst movies that Ive ever seen, surpassed only by crap like Jigsaw.

[Posher778]

Scream

NOES

Redeye

[Miss Olivia]

Redeye was REALLY good. Cillian Murphy is definitely one of my favorite new actors....he was perfect as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins.

[The_Return]

The only thing I didnt really like about Red Eye was the overly predictable and straight-forward plot. Murphy was great though.

[makemebad]

The Serpent and the Rainbow is a different one

It is a different side in horror movies.......getting buried alive would be the most awful thing to have happen

[filmmaker2]

New Nightmare. I thought it stood on its own, good movie, very scary and very satirical. Easily my fave.

Not a big fan of the Scream films.

[tachii]

love nightmare; actually wore the tee to work the other day; very surprised no one said anything. woman in bed with a manacing man looming over...i don't know seems pretty suggestive. perhaps a bit much for a department store.

serphent was great
also liked hills

[spookychild]

Well I'm happy to see I actually had some responses to this.

[bwind22]

Ugh! I thought Red Eye was one of the most retarded movies of the last few years. I don't recall any specifically (I've been trying to forget this film since I watched it) but I seem to remember a large number of plotholes. The acting was average, but the movie itself was just predictable and lame.

[spookychild]

Why so angry at Red Eye?

[tachii]

haven't even had a chance to see that one yet
now i'm nervous :(

[heebiejeebies]

You gotta give it up to NOES...if for no other reason than it gave us Freddy Kreuger!!!:)

But to be fair, I also have to give props to Scream (first one only though), Last House on the Left, and The Serpent and the Rainbow.

For the record, I really liked Red Eye. Yes, it was pretty predictable, but it was also pretty entertaining. (And having Cillian Murphy in it didn't hurt any either.)

[Pythoness]

I've got to go with a tie between NoES and Serpent and the Rainbow

[Sick_As_Fuck]

Scream is my al-time favorite scary movie. So, yeah.

[spookychild]

I'm Happy for all of the responses and I'm intersted to hear more

[PR3SSUR3]

Everything from Scream onwards has been self-indulgent shit.

I like The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, Shocker, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Deadly Friend.

Not bad are The Serpent and the Rainbow (from what I can remember of it) and The People Under the Stairs.

[spookychild]

I can see what you mean about Scream, but you got to admit that it was a good way to make some money.

[Vodstok]

I like
People under the Stairs
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Scream


in that order. the rest of his stuff.. Just doesnt do it for me.

[spookychild]

I love the answers keep them coming.

[Angelakillsluts]

1. The Serpent and the Rainbow
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. The People Under the Stairs
4. The Hills Have Eyes
5. Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors

[PR3SSUR3]

I can see what you mean about Scream, but you got to admit that it was a good way to make some money

It sure was - also makes it very easy to dislike, too.

[spookychild]

Dream Warriors is an interesting answer. Alright I love the answers more opinions wanted.

[Angelakillsluts]

I added it so that I could have a top 5, I'm not a big wes craven fan. Dream Warriors was the only NOES sequel I didn't hate with a passion, the second movie was one of the worst movies ever made.

[PR3SSUR3]

Alright I love the answers more opinions wanted.

Or else?

You're so masterful.

:)

[Korpse]

Scream
The Hills Have Eyes
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Last House on the Left
Red Eye
Cursed
Shocker


Think that's all I've seen by him, those are in order too.

[nightchild]

NOES-easily. It was truely scary at the time. I agree with others here, its a shame the sequels ruined it. I've thougt att imes that a good prequel done by Craven might offer some type of redemption for the series. It'd be difficult to make jokes or stupid sequences about Freddy as a real person kiling kids in the real world. The biggest problem I see with the idea is that according to the original, Freddy was a " child murderer" I don't really see anyone signing up for or backing any film where young kids are being gutted and sliced up.

[nightchild]

I also liked SCREAM. I thought it was original and brought some life back to horror. I mean, any horror fan already knew the "rules" to horror movies. It was kind of cool to see the sub culture that has been built up around the horror genre put on screen. I really liked all the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) nods to other horror films. And alot of people don't realize Craven didn't write SCREAM. He directed it. He actually said he thought about eliminating several lines that refered to him and his films being better than others.