Wes Craven born.
*On this day in 1939, Wes Craven, the man responsible for terrorizing millions of moviegoers with his Nightmare on Elm Street series and Scream trilogy, is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Craven, who graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois and received a master’s degree in writing and philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, began his directing career with 1972’s The Last House on the Left, a violent teen horror film for which he also penned the screenplay.
He went on to direct a string of low-budget scary movies, including The Hills Have Eyes (1977), before cementing his reputation as a master of blood and gore with 1984’s Nightmare on Elm Street, about teenagers in the fictional town of Springwood, Ohio, who are terrorized by nightmares of the gruesomely disfigured child killer Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund.
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