The Last House on the Left, 1972. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring David Hess, Sandra Peabody, Fred J. Lincoln, Lucy Grantham, Richard Towers, Cynthia Carr, Martin Kove, Marc Sheffler, and Jeramie Rain. SYNOPSIS: Two teenage girls are kidnapped and brutalised before the attackers in knowing seek shelter at the home of the parents of one of […]
Horror Channel rings in the New Year with Wes Craven season
Horror Channel is set to celebrate the legendary filmmaker Wes Craven throughout January with a retrospective of the late great genre director’s career. Four of his supernatural shockers and scream-filled slashers wlll be broadcast, including the network premieres of serial killer chiller My Soul to Take, his macabre masterpiece The Serpent and the Rainbow, his […]
Blu-ray Review – The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hills Have Eyes, 1977. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Susan Lanier, Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, Robert Houston, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, Lance Gordon, Martin Speer, James Whitworth, Virginia Vincent, Janus Blythe and Cordy Clark. SYNOPSIS: An all-American family travelling across country fall foul of a clan of cannibals that live in the desert. Quite […]
R.I.P. Wes Craven (1939 – 2015)
Some sad news this morning as it has been revealed that American filmmaker and horror maestro Wes Craven has passed away at his home in Los Angeles aged 76 after a battle with brain cancer. Craven began his career as a director in 1972 with his first feature The Last House of the Left, a […]
Wes Craven and Steve Niles teaming up for The Disciples TV series
Horror maestros Wes Craven (Scream) and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) are joining forces for a TV adaptation of Black Mask’s upcoming comic book series The Disciples, which is being produced by Universal Cable Productions. Created by Niles and Christopher Mitten (Umbral), The Disciples has been described as “True Detective in space” and is […]
Wes Craven to receive tribute on MTV’s Scream
Following the shocking news that horror master Wes Craven passed away on Sunday at the age of 76, MTV has announced that they will pay tribute to the director on the next episode of Scream. MTV’s Scream is based on Craven’s film franchise of the same name, which began in 1996 and continued until 2011 with Scream […]
