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Nightmare On Elm Street | 1984 | Montage Style | Japanese B2

16Jun2017

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Nightmare On Elm Street | 1984 | Montage Style | Japanese B2

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 film directed by Wes Craven. It was produced by Robert Shaye with the screenplay being written by Wes Craven. The film stars John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp and Robert Englund. A Nightmare on Elm Street provided Johnny Depp with his acting debut film. The storyline follows several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams (and thus killed in reality) by Freddy Krueger. The teenagers are unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon, but their parents hold a dark secret from long ago. A Nightmare on Elm Street is credited with carrying on many tropes found in low-budget horror films of the 70s and 80s which started in John Carpenter's 1978 horror film Halloween. It highlights the moral...

12Jun2017

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UK Movie Posters, UK Quad

Scream | 1996 | UK Quad

Scream is a 1996 film directed by Wes Craven. It was produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods with Kevin Williamson writing the screenplay. The film stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Drew Barrymore. The storyline follows Sidney Prescott who is a high school student in a fictional town called Woodsboro, California. She becomes the target of a mysterious killer known as Ghostface. Scream combined black comedy and mystery with the violence of the slasher genre to mock and ridicule the traditional clichés of the horror film genre made popular in films such as Halloween and Friday the 13th. Part of the uniqueness of Scream was for featuring characters who are aware of real world horror films and openly discussed the clichés th...

9May2017

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US Movie Posters, US One Sheet

Scream | 1996 | US One Sheet

Scream is a 1996 film directed by Wes Craven. It was produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods with Kevin Williamson writing the screenplay. The film stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Drew Barrymore. The storyline follows Sidney Prescott (played by Neve Campbell) who is a high school student in a fictional town called Woodsboro, California. She becomes the target of a mysterious killer known as Ghostface. Scream combined black comedy and mystery with the violence of the slasher genre to mock and ridicule the traditional clichés of the horror film genre made popular in films such as Halloween and Friday the 13th. Part of the uniqueness of Scream was for featuring characters who are aware of real world horror films and openl...

Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs | 1991 | Final | UK Quad

21Sep2016

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Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs | 1991 | Final | UK Quad

The People Under the Stairs is a 1991 horror comedy film that was written and directed by Wes Craven. It was produced by Stuart M. Besser and Marianne Maddalena. The film stars Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, and A. J. Langer. The storyline focuses on a young boy called Poindexter Williams known by the nickname Fool who comes from the ghetto. On his 13th birthday, he and two adult robbers attempt a burglary of the home of his family's evil landlords trying to steal their collection of rare coins. He and his two accompliances become trapped inside their large suburban house and soon discover the secret of the "children" that the insane brother and sister have been "rearing" under the stairs. According to writer-director Wes Craven, the story behind The People Under the St...