A former humanities professor turned brand name fright-master, producer, writer, director Craven is clearly an intellectual artist trapped in a disreputable genre. He entered filmmaking as an editor and assistant producer to exploitation producer Sean Cunningham (who would later create Jason for the "Friday the 13th" movies) on several low-budget comedies and skin flicks before graduating to the position of writer-director with a modestly budgeted ($87,000), feature "Last House on the Left" (1972). Still a potent shocker, this grimly realistic tale of rape, murder, and revenge was loosely
I've seen a lot of horror movies in my life, but few titles on this lengthy list possess the intelligence and social awareness that anything directed by Wes Craven does. The only other so-called "master of horror" who even…
