When you think of horror directors, there’s often the impulse to assume that all of them have nursed a burning passion for the dark and scary since they were little kids reading issues of “Creepy” or “Weird Tales” in their bedrooms.
And it is true that there are some directors who got into the horror genre because they wanted to, but there are also those who wound up amongst the screams and the scares just by chance. Wes Craven had an extremely prolific and influential career as a director.
He is probably most well known for creating the iconic “A Nightmare on Elm Street” series, about Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a violent murderer with a freaky glove who kills people in their dreams.
And if you don’t think of Freddy Krueger first, you probably think of the “Scream” franchise, of which he directed the first four entries.
There’s also “The Last House on the Left,
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