Wes Craven

Wes Craven films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 21 films on Boxlist

Known for A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and Red Eye.

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Directed by Wes Craven

  1. A Nightmare on Elm Street

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    1984 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents...

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  2. Scream

    Scream

    1996 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.

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  3. Red Eye

    Red Eye

    2005 · Film

    6.3/10 · TMDB

    A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.

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  4. Paris, Je T'Aime

    Paris, Je T'Aime

    2006 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this...

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  5. Scream 2

    Scream 2

    1997 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college...

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  6. New Nightmare

    New Nightmare

    1994 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    As Heather Langenkamp considers making another Nightmare on Elm Street film with Wes Craven, her son, Dylan, falls under the spell of the iconic disfigured villain Freddy Krueger. Eventually, Langenkamp must confront Freddy's demonic...

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  7. The People Under the Stairs

    The People Under the Stairs

    1991 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.

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  8. Scream 4

    Scream 4

    2011 · Film

    6.3/10 · TMDB

    Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate...

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  9. The Last House on the Left

    The Last House on the Left

    1972 · Film

    6.0/10 · TMDB

    Two teenage girls try to buy marijuana in the city - where they get kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.

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  10. The Serpent and the Rainbow

    The Serpent and the Rainbow

    1988 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld...

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  11. Music of the Heart

    Music of the Heart

    1999 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

    Where to watch:Rent or buy
  12. Swamp Thing

    Swamp Thing

    1982 · Film

    5.5/10 · TMDB

    Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own...

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  13. Scream 3

    Scream 3

    2000 · Film

    5.9/10 · TMDB

    A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.

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  14. Shocker

    Shocker

    1989 · Film

    5.5/10 · TMDB

    After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

    Where to watch:Rent or buy
  15. Cursed

    Cursed

    2005 · Film

    5.5/10 · TMDB

    A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults, who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill their attacker if they hope to change their fate to avoid becoming werewolves too.

    Where to watch:Rent or buy
  16. My Soul to Take

    My Soul to Take

    2010 · Film

    5.6/10 · TMDB

    A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.

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  17. Vampire in Brooklyn

    Vampire in Brooklyn

    1995 · Film

    5.0/10 · TMDB

    Maximillian, the lone survivor of a race of vampires, comes to Brooklyn in search of a way to live past the next full moon. His ticket to survival is Rita, a NYPD detective who doesn't know she's half vampire -- and Maximillian will do...

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