Craven House Horrors

Author : Hilary H. Milton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780671456313
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Craven House Horrors written by Hilary H. Milton and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped by a storm in a mysterious and frightening house, the reader is given several alternative choices to manipulate the plot and plan an escape.

Author : John Kenneth Muir
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786419234
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wes Craven written by John Kenneth Muir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Wes Craven has consistently and imaginatively scared movie audiences since the early 1970s. His films encompass a variety of styles, elements and themes, from the nihilistic existentialism of The Last House on the Left to the successful A Nightmare on Elm Street (which sent horror in a bold new direction), to the hallucinatory dreamscapes of The Serpent and the Rainbow. And in the nineties, Craven returned with the Scream films, which were simultaneously funny, clever and scary films that overturned the horror cliches of the eighties. The present work provides a history of Craven's film career since 1972, examining all the themes and techniques the filmmaker explored. For each film, a synopsis, cast and credits, historical context, and critical commentary are provided. Also covered in detail are Craven's forays into television, including movies such as Stranger in the House and work on such series as The New Twilight Zone.

Author : Brian J. Robb
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913538737
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screams & Nightmares written by Brian J. Robb and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer, producer, and director Wes Craven has successfully tapped into the horror vein for over forty years, serving up scary, funny, cutting-edge thrillers that have become classics in the genre. His films have been both critical and commercial successes, most notably Nightmare on Elm Street, which spawned a series of sequels and made Craven (and his creation, Freddy Kruger) an international sensation. He then created a second indelible series in the horror movie trope with Scream. In Screams & Nightmares, Brian J. Robb examines Craven's entire career, from his low-budget beginnings to his most recent box office hits, from the banned thriller The Last House on the Left and the cult classic The Hills Have Eyes to the outrageous Shocker and The People Under the Stairs. Through exclusive interviews with Craven, Robb provides in-depth accounts of the making of each of the films – including the final instalments of the Scream series – Craven's foray into writing novels, and his numerous television projects.

Author : Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809330970
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Directions written by Kendall R. Phillips and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers’ psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these films’ directors in Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film. Phillips begins by analyzing the works of George Romero, focusing on how the body is used cinematically to reflect the duality between society and chaos, concluding that the unconstrained bodies of the Living Dead films act as a critical intervention into social norms. Phillips then explores the shadowy worlds of director Wes Craven. In his study of the films The Serpent and the Rainbow, Deadly Friend, Swamp Thing, Red Eye, and Shocker, Phillips reveals Craven’s vision of technology as inherently dangerous in its ability to cross the gossamer thresholds of the gothic. Finally, the volume traverses the desolate frontiers of iconic director John Carpenter. Through an exploration of such works as Halloween, The Fog, and In the Mouth of Madness, Phillips delves into the director’s representations of boundaries—and the haunting consequences for those who cross them. The first volume ever to address these three artists together, Dark Directions is a spine-tingling and thought-provoking study of the horror genre. In analyzing the individual works of Romero, Craven, and Carpenter, Phillips illuminates some of the darkest minds in horror cinema.

Author : David A. Szulkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952926009
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wes Craven's Last House on the Left written by David A. Szulkin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971 Wes Craven wrote and directed a shocking and controversial horror movie LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. Produced by FRIDAY THE 13TH creator Sean Cunningham, it became an instant cult classic. This is the inside story of the making of the film and includes exclusive in-depth interviews, with cast and crew, rare photographs and five years of meticulous research. A notorious film classic which broke the rules and the bank.

Author : John Wooley
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118012755
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wes Craven written by John Wooley and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and film genius of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director Wes Craven Wes Craven is one of the most successful and iconic horror movie directors in Hollywood. His masterful examination of the nightmarish nexus of dreams and reality helped spark a career that has spanned close to forty years. Then, with their mix of horror, sex, and humor, Craven's Scream movies helped revitalize the slasher film genre. An absorbing portrait of cult film director Wes Craven's life and career in film Draws on the author's new interviews with Craven, including little-known details about the director's life and work Insights into the making of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and the Scream films—the #1 horror franchise of all time Fascinating stories about the director's work with a range of producers, screenwriters, and actors, including Robert Englund Publication timing ties in with the release of Scream 4 If you've ever had nightmares about Freddy Krueger or psychopaths wearing Halloween scream masks, or if want to know more about the director behind the new Scream 4, this is one book you simply have to read.

Author : Wes Craven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684846606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fountain Society written by Wes Craven and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director/screenwriter Wes Craven, who has been called "the reigning Mephisto of fright" ("Premiere" magazine), takes readers beyond the frontiers of medical science, into a chilling world where three people ensnared in a Faustian bargain race against time to stop forces of unimaginable evil.

Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Craven House written by Patrick Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666919071
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Wes Craven written by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven’s work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. This book covers both the successes and failures contained in Craven’s extensive filmography, ultimately revealing a variegated portrait of his career. Scholars of film studies, horror, and ecology will find this book particularly interesting.

Author : Jon Towlson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474696
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversive Horror Cinema written by Jon Towlson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s onward it examines the work of producers and directors as varied as George A. Romero, Pete Walker, Michael Reeves, Herman Cohen, Wes Craven and Brian Yuzna and the ways in which films like Frankenstein (1931), Cat People (1942), The Woman (2011) and American Mary (2012) can be considered "subversive."