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Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:54
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Wes Craven, a Hollywood horror filmmaker famous for creating classics such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The People Under the Stairs and Vampire in Brooklyn, died on 30 August at the age of 76. Craven passed away at his Los Angeles home after suffering with brain cancer.
Though his health had deteriorated over the last few years, Craven continued his work in the industry and was involved in a number of television projects. He also wrote a comic book series, Coming of Rage, and executive produced a new film which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The film, The Girl in the Photographs, is a Scream-inspired horror.
Hollywood has delivered condolences and tributes to the New York City Horror Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award winner on Twitter. Actress Courtney Cox, who starred in Scream posted: Today the world lost a great man, my friend and mentor, Wes Craven. My heart goes out to his family. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar posted: I had the great privilege of working with #WesCraven one of the kindest most gentle souls, who made great scary films. #RIPWesCraven
Craven commented on the future of cinema in a 2013 interview with Arrow in the Head: I think the experience of going to a theatre and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and its equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realise that your fears are not just within yourself, theyre in other people as well, and thats strangely releasing. But on the TV, you can still watch it with friends. We watch films on so many different mediums now, that I think theyll complement each other for a long time.
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