Re: Wes Craven is an idiot.

moviePig <pwallace@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:5f6d0b7e-9d80-487b-90f7-
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On Oct 31, 10:36 pm, RichA <rander3...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 31, 11:23 pm, moviePig <pwall...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Oct 31, 5:06 pm, trotsky <gmsi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33495687/ns/entertainment/page/2/

?Nosferatu? (1922)
Directed by F.W. Murnau
Murnau's ?Nosferatu? broke from the traditional view of the sed
uctive vampire and gave us instead a terrifying vision

What "seductive vampire" existed in films or literature in 1922.

My hunch is Craven isn't too bright.

Maybe.  But, ironically, you picked the only one of his descriptions
that, imo, has a literate and evocative ring:

  "Murnau's NOSFERATU broke from the traditional view of the
seductiv
e
vampire and gave us instead a terrifying vision of monstrosity so
human it is appalled by itself, hypnotically beautiful in its very
ugliness. Thin, malformed, huge-eyed; it is like some grotesquely
elongated and aged fetus from the womb of Hell, helpless in its need
to devour."

If only Craven's scripts stayed at that level...

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I'd just like to say that I hated, hated, HATED the Gary Oldman
Dracula movie.  Lugosi was better, Lee was better, Langella was better
and they all were in better movies.
I don't know if Craven is an idiot, but of all the horror movie-makers
prominent in the 1980's, I like him the least and his pizza-faced
creation in "Nightmare on Elm Street."

However (like FRIDAY THE 13TH and HALLOWEEN), the original ELM STREET
was fun and exciting, and not so much about a Freddy franchise...


I can almost live with the Freddy franchise but I HATED "Scream" and its
excessive smugness. The 1990's was a time of increased viewer
sophistication but it was coupled to the same low intelligence the
general public have always had which meant most of the horror movies
stunk. Craven's (IMO) last good movies were "The People Under the
Stairs" and "Shocker."
Some might say his last good movie was "Serpent and the Rainbow" from
1988.

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