With his first two films, "The Last House on the Left" and "The Hills Have Eyes," Wes Craven introduced himself as an engaging, often disturbing filmmaker. With his later films "Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Serpent and the Rainbow," and most recently...

There's a specific moment in the horror film Scream, when you just can't believe that it was written and directed by two middle-aged men and not a teenage girl. Unmasking as a psychopathic killer the nice boy she happily lost her virginity to only...

Wes Craven doesn't strike you in person as the sort of man who spends his time concocting ways to scare cinemagoers witless. Conservatively dressed and congenial, the former Humanities professor seems too balanced to be the wellspring from which has poured the horrors of...

Wes Craven’s Red Eye, from a story by Carl Ellsworth and Dan Foos, happily emerges as the kind of movie that people say Hollywood can’t or won’t make anymore—that is, an efficient thriller unburdened by any intimations of social significance or subtextual grandiosity. The best...

Wes Craven’s Red Eye, from a story by Carl Ellsworth and Dan Foos, happily emerges as the kind of movie that people say Hollywood can’t or won’t make anymore—that is, an efficient thriller unburdened by any intimations of social significance or subtextual grandiosity. The best...