Director WES CRAVEN has been challenging audiences with his bold vision since the release of his first feature film, "Last House on the Left" which he wrote, directed and edited in 1972. In the 27 years since that controversial film's arrival, Craven has demonstrated that he is a filmmaker with heart, guts, humor — and unbridled imagination.
He marks his 15th feature film with SCREAM 3, the final installment of the SCREAM trilogy. The film reunites Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette, who also starred in SCREAM, winner of the MW'S 1996 Best Movie Award and SCREAM 2. The two pictures earned a total of over $204 million domestically.
His most recent prior film, Miramax's "Music of the Heart," stars Meryl Streep, Gloria Estefan in her screen debut, Angela Basset and Aidan Quinn. It is the real-life story of Roberta Guaspari, whose teaching of the violin to children in East Harlem led to a stunning concert at Carnegie Hall and personal triumph for countless inner city children.
Craven reinvented the youth horror genre with the classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street," a film he wrote and directed in 1984. Although he did not direct any of that film's following five sequels, he altered the genre a decade later with the audacious final installment, "Wes Craven's New Nightmare," which he wrote and directed. The film was nominated as Best Feature at the 1995 Independent Spirit Awards.
He also directed "Vampire in Brooklyn" (1995), wrote and directed "The People Under the Stairs" (1991), wrote and directed "Shocker" (1989), directed "The Serpent and the Rainbow" (1988), directed "Deadly Friend" (1986), and wrote and directed "Swamp Thing" (1980). He wrote, directed and edited "The Hills Have Eyes" (1975).
For television, he helped create and produce the series "Nightmare Cafe" He directed the telefilms "Night Visions," "A Stranger in Our House," "Invitation to Hell," "Chiller" and "Casebusters." He also directed seven classic episodes of the 1980's revival of "The Twilight Zone."
Craven, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio and holds a master's degree in writing and philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has written his first novel, The Fountain Society, which was published last October by Simon and Schuster.
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