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Wes Craven has 29 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including A Nightmare on Elm Street.
X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time
2015
Documentary
Scream
1996 · Movie · Director
Top 9%Paramount+ · Included
Scream 2
1997 · Movie · Director
Top 15%Paramount+ · Included
Body Bags
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 38%Prime Video · Free w/ ads
Deadly Friend
1986 · Movie · Director
Top 38%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Red Eye
2005 · Movie · Director
Top 40%Starz · Included
The Last House on the Left
1972 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 45%Prime Video · Included
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
Dir. Wes Craven · With Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Craig Wasson
Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Dir. Andrew Kasch, Daniel Farrands · With Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Wes Craven
Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
Dir. Wes Craven · With Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae
Taking an ill-advised detour en-route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, they find themselves at the mercy of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer.
Dir. John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper · With John Carpenter, Tom Arnold, Tobe Hooper
When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett
An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess
As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Dir. Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Bruno Podalydès · With Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
Dir. Wendy Apple · With Kathy Bates, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett
The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live in Springwood.
Dir. Wes Craven, Jeff Freilich · With Robert Englund
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Berg
When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins to fear for her life and the lives of her visiting friends.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Susan Buckner
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
Dir. Martin Weisz · With Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Jacob Vargas
After a country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, their teenage daughter Rachel grows to suspect that Julie has a sinister agenda.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to kill the one who started it all.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Jesse Eisenberg
On the day the Riverton Ripper vanished without a trace, seven children were born. Today, they're all turning 16... and turning up dead.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Denzel Whitaker
Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing, a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...even if it costs him his life.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise
When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.
Dir. Jim Sonzero · With Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea — she meets Maximilian, a smooth-talking Caribbean playboy determined to romance her.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Angela Bassett, Eddie Murphy, Allen Payne
A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a survivor of the cannibal clan which menaced the Carter family several years before.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Michael Berryman, Kevin Spirtas, John Bloom
