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Wes Craven, the prolific filmmaker behind "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and the "Scream" movies, kicked off his career with a film so violent and gory, censors in Britain banned it from theaters. He followed that by creating Freddy Krueger, an unhinged character who still terrorizes audiences. 
  
 But the director long wanted to break free from the horror genre he defined, so when producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein approached him with a three-picture deal, they sweetened the offer by letting him direct 1999's "Music of the Heart," the uplifting story of an East Harlem violin teacher who brings music to scores of underprivileged students. It starred Meryl Streep, earning her an Oscar nomination. 
  
 Still, as Alfred Hitchcock's name came to be synonymous with thrillers and Sergio Leone's to spaghetti westerns, Wes Craven's name will forever be linked to horror films. The filmmaker died Sunday at his Los Angeles home after a battle with brain cancer, according to his representative. He was 76. 
  
 Toward the end of his more than four-decade career, which included forays as a television producer and novelist, he made peace with his fearsome reputation. 
  
 "Sometimes you fight what you are, what you're doing," he told ABC News in 2010. "At a certain point you say, you know I'm really good at this and people really seem to enjoy what I do and I've definitely left a mark on American cinema of some sort or another." 
  
 Craven created some of the genre's most influential films, including 1977's "The Hills Have Eyes," 1984's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and 1996's "Scream." He also gave birth to some of its most terrifying images: a suburban family terrorized by a band of savage cannibals, a killer with razor blades for fingers who stalks teenagers in their dreams. 
  
 "He was a consummate filmmaker and his body of work will live on forever," Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of the Weinstein Co. and Dimension Films, said in a statement Sunday night. 
  
 Actress Rose McGowan, who co-starred in "Scream," took to Twitter to call Craven "the kindest man, the gentlest man, and one of the smartest men I've known." Of the day's news, she added: "Please say there's a plot twist." 
  
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 Contemporary horror filmmaker Jason Blum, chief executive of Blumhouse Productions, said via email: “The horror community suffered a big blow with the passing of Wes Craven. Talk about a true pioneer. All of his movies pushed the genre forward because they had something thoughtful to say, whether it was about the Vietnam War, teenage angst, abuse or class warfare. He gave us movies with meaning and big scares. It is hard to do that once or twice; it’s basically impossible to do it as often as Wes did. He constantly reinvented himself and the genre and left an indelible mark on multiple decades of film and multiple generations of horror fans. Thank you for everything and rest in peace.” 
  
 For Craven, making a scary movie was far more than simply a matter of delivering cheap shocks. It was an exercise in societal catharsis, a foray into the audience's collective unconscious. 
  
 "I think the genre goes outside the boundaries of reality in many ways in order to get at some central truths and feelings that aren't served well by very factual states," he told The Times in 2010. 
  
 "Whether it be psychotic behavior or being possessed or being in a killing rage, whatever it is, these are things that are not part of our rational grid.... Those things are primordial to the human species, the double curse of being aware of your own existence and being kind of alone in it. Genre films go to those areas, because we're talking about very raw human feelings and perceptions." 
  
 Craven was born in Cleveland on Aug. 2, 1939, and raised by strict Baptist parents who forbade him from watching movies. Earning a master's degree in philosophy and writing from Johns Hopkins University, he seemed destined for a quiet life in academia. But while working as a humanities professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., Craven fell in love with film at the local art house theater and his life took a dramatic turn. 
  
 Radically shifting gears, Craven entered the film business, where he soon found himself writing and directing pornographic films under pseudonyms. Even as he made the transition to the somewhat more respectable horror genre, he maintained his appetite for pushing the boundaries of what was considered acceptable, even — or perhaps especially — if it meant inciting controversy. 
  
 Shot for just $90,000, "The Last House on the Left" — the story of two teenage girls who are taken into the woods and tortured by a violent gang — was censored in many countries for its extreme sadism and violence. The film earned generally favorable reviews from critics, however, with Roger Ebert calling it "about four times as good as you'd expect." 
  
 "I didn't know a thing about directing," Craven told The Times in 2010. "I staged it like a documentary because the year or two I learned the basics of film, I worked in a building that had mostly documentary filmmakers." 
  
 With "A Nightmare on Elm Street," Craven delivered his biggest hit to date and created one of the genre's most indelible villains: Freddy Krueger, a hideously scarred serial killer who wears a glove armed with razor blades and stalks his teenage victims in their dreams. The film earned $25 million at the box office, spawning a franchise and numerous imitators. 
  
 "A Nightmare on Elm Street" demonstrated Craven's penchant for toying with the conventions of the horror genre — a characteristic he would bring to its fullest fruition in his 1996 smash "Scream." 
  
 The tale of a high school student who becomes the target of a mysterious killer known as Ghostface, "Scream" played with audience's expectations at every turn with winking humor while still delivering genuine scares. Grossing $173 million worldwide, the film spawned a franchise and was credited with revitalizing the horror genre, inspiring other cheekily self-aware horror films to follow such as "Shaun of the Dead" and "The Cabin in the Woods." 
  
 Craven went on to direct three more "Scream" films, along with the well-received 2005 psychological thriller "Red Eye," which centered on a terrorist assassination plot on a red-eye flight. 
  
 Driven by an unceasing appetite for work, Craven remained busy until the end of his life. He had recently been developing a number of television projects, including "The People Under the Stairs" with Syfy, and was executive producing a new "Scream" series for MTV. ||||| Legendary horror director Wes Craven, known for the “Scream” films and the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series, died Sunday in his Los Angeles home of brain cancer. He was 76. 
  
 Known for creating the iconic Freddy Krueger character from “Nightmare on Elm Street” and Ghostface in “Scream,” the versatile filmmaker also wrote and produced features, directed for television and wrote novels. 
  
 Craven was a humanities professor before leaving academia to work in post production and on porn movies, using a pseudonym. His first credited feature was the controversial shocker “The Last House on the Left,” which he wrote, directed and edited in 1972. He followed with the blackly comic “The Hills Have Eyes” and “Swamp Thing,” an early entry in the comic book genre. 
  
 He wrote and directed “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” with Robert Englund as Krueger and an early Johnny Depp performance, in 1984. The surreal slasher pic is credited with having started the “dream reality” style of 1980s horror filmmakers and helped launch independent film studio New Line Cinema. 
  
 “In 1984, Wes Craven brought ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ to New Line, and in so doing, altered the course of the studio’s history. We are eternally grateful to our friend and partner, and are proud to be ‘The House That Freddy Built,'” New Line said in a statement. 
  
 Bill Pullman starred in 1988’s “Serpent and the Rainbow,” which was based on a non-fiction book about voodoo. Craven tried his hand at non-horror fare between “Scream 2” and “Scream 3” with “Music of the Heart” in 1999, for which Meryl Streep was Oscar-nommed for best actress. He also wrote a novel, “The Fountain Society,” that year. 
  
 In the 1990s he pioneered the meta horror movie with film-within-a-film “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare,” then followed with “Scream” in 1996. He directed all four installments of the satirical scarer; the first grossed more than $100 million domestically. Starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, it became a cultural phenomenon and inspired the “Scary Movie” spoof series. 
  
 He mixed it up again with 2005 psychological thriller “Red Eye” and with a romantic comedy segment in “Paris Je t’aime,” then produced remakes of his earlier films “The Hills Have Eyes” and “The Last House on the Left.” 
  
 Craven was still actively developing projects, having recently signed an overall television deal with Universal Cable Productions. He had television projects in development including “The People Under the Stairs” with Syfy Networks, “Disciples” with UCP, “We Are All Completely Fine” with Syfy/UCP, and “Sleepers” with Federation Entertainment. He was also executive producing the new “Scream” series for MTV. His most recent films were 2010’s “My Soul to Take” and “Scream 4” in 2011. 
  
 He had recently written and was to direct the “Thou Shalt Not Kill” segment for the Weinstein Company/WGN’s “Ten Commandments” television miniseries, and had also been working on a graphic novel series based on his original idea “Coming of Rage” for Liquid Comics, in collaboration with Steve Niles. He was exec producer of “The Girl in the Photographs,” which will premiere in Toronto. 
  
 Born August 2, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio, the longtime bird lover served as a longtime member of the Audubon California Board of Directors. 
  
 “I am heartbroken at the news of Wes Craven’s passing,” Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of the Weinstein Company and Dimension Films, said in a statement. “We enjoyed a 20 year professional relationship and more importantly a warm and close friendship. He was a consummate filmmaker and his body of work will live on forever. My brother and I are eternally grateful for all his collaborations with us.” 
  
 Craven is survived by his wife, producer and former Disney Studios VP Iya Labunka; sister Carol Buhrow; son Jonathan Craven; daughter Jessica Craven; stepdaughter Nina Tarnawksy and three grandchildren. |||||
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He brought horror to the lives of countless millions and he'll be sadly missed. Wes Craven, the 76-year-old filmmaker best known for creating the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream movies, died of brain cancer yesterday, Variety reports. Craven—who started out as a humanities professor and made porn movies under a fake name before breaking into horror with The Last House on the Left in 1972—explored other movie genres, including the 1999 Meryl Streep drama Music of the Heart. But his name will be "forever linked to horror movies," just as Alfred Hitchcock's is to thrillers, writes Josh Rottenberg at the Los Angeles Times. Craven, raised by strict Baptist parents who wouldn't let him go to the movies, once described his films as a journey into the audience's unconscious. "Whether it be psychotic behavior or being possessed or being in a killing rage, whatever it is, these are things that are not part of our rational grid," he told the Times in 2010. "Those things are primordial to the human species, the double curse of being aware of your own existence and being kind of alone in it." Craven was busy right up until the end, with multiple TV projects on the go, including MTV's Scream series and the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" segment of the Weinstein Company's Ten Commandments series, Variety reports. In a statement, Bob Weinstein mourned Craven as a "consummate filmmaker" and a close friend.