Wes Craven passes away at 76

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Los Angeles, 11 April 2011
1. Wes Craven talks to reporter on carpet at "Scream 4" premiere
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Wes Craven/Director, on premiere: "You get a feel -- there's a lot of excitement here tonight. You can feel it in the air. So yeah, a lot of people across the street all yelling and excited, so it feels like they're ready for it."
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Los Angeles, 4 August 2005
3. Wes Craven and wife Iya Labunka arriving for "Red Eye" premiere
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Wes Craven, Director:
Q: "How do you overcome the challenge of scaring people over and over again?"
A: "It's my job, I don't know, you kind of have to know what the audience is thinking, and know where their fears are and I think the way you know that is you are kind of like the audience , you know, I've always felt that what I am afraid of is basically what the audience is afraid of, so you just talk about it and play with it, you know. Oddly enough, these are very serious things in real life, in a film you can kind of deal with it in a way that it has a resolution in the end that you have some control over, so in a strange way it's a good feeling to be afraid and scared in a safe environment".
HORROR MASTER WES CRAVEN PASSES AWAY AT 76
Wes Craven, the prolific writer-director who thrilled audiences with iconic and bloody suburban slashers like "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Scream" that made his name synonymous with horror, has died. He was 76.
In a statement, Craven's family said that he died in his Los Angeles home Sunday, surrounded by family, after battling brain cancer.
A prolific writer, director and editor, Craven is credited with reinventing the teen horror genre with the 1984 release of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" starring a then-unknown Johnny Depp. The movie and its indelible, razor-fingered villain Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund) led to several sequels, as did his 1996 success, "Scream."
Besides his work in horror films, Craven also directed the drama "Music of the Heart," which earned Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination.
But Craven's name will always be synonymous with graphic horror.
"Horror films don't create fear," Craven said. "They release it."
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on Aug. 2, 1939. Though he earned a Master's Degree in philosophy and writing from John Hopkins University and briefly taught as a college professor in Pennsylvania and New York, his start in movies was in pornography, where he worked under a pseudonym.
Craven's feature debut under his own name was 1972's "The Last House on the Left," a horror film about teenage girls abducted by thugs and taken into the woods. Made for just $87,000, the film, though graphic enough to be censored in many countries, was a hit. Roger Ebert said it was "about four times as good as you'd expect."
"Nightmare on Elm Street," however, catapulted him to far greater renown in 1984. The Ohio-set film about teenagers who are stalked in their dreams, which Craven wrote and directed, spawned a never-ending franchise that has carried on until, most recently, a 2010 remake.
The concept, Craven said, came from his own youth in Cleveland_ a cemetery on an Elm Street and a hobo that inspired Krueger.
Along with John Carpenter's "Halloween," "Nightmare on Elm Street" defined a teen horror tradition where helpless teenagers were preyed upon by knife-wielding, deformed killers in cruel morality tales; usually promiscuous girls were the first to go.
"Scream," written by Kevin Williamson,
Craven helped produce remakes of
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