Wes Craven

After studying literature and psychology in Baltimore, Wes Craven worked for a few years as a professor of human sciences and dramaturgy. At the end of the Sixties, he left for New York, where he obtained a position in a production house. First responsible for supervising the documentaries department, he quickly became a production assistant while improving his editing skills.

In 1972, Wes Craven wrote and directed The Last House on the Left, an extremely violent horror film that already foreshadowed the filmmaker's interest in the morbid. This first attempt, very noticed, allows him to stage, five years later, a classic of the genre: La Colline a des yeux, a feature film inspired by documentaries on the Vietnam War. Adapted from the true story of a cannibalistic Scottish family who ambushed travelers to the region, the film has won numerous awards around the world.

In 1980, with The Farm of Terror, he offered one of his first roles to Sharon Stone, but he had to wait until 1984 and the first adventures of Freddy in The Claws of the Night (seeing the debut on the screen of Johnny Depp ), to finally access the consecration. From then on, inducted master of horror, Wes Craven continues in this vein with Shocker (1989) and The Basement of Fear (1991), but it is always with Freddy, the man with the burnt face, striped sweater and claws of steel, he meets success. As evidenced by the release of the seventh part of the saga, Freddy comes out of the night, in 1994.

After the failure of A vampire in Brooklyn (1995) with Eddie Murphy, Wes Craven breathes new life into the slasher movie, and at the same time to his career, with Scream, Grand Prix at the Fantastic Festival of Gérardmer 1996. In the process, he directed Scream 2 and, thanks to the financial benefits of the two films, could stage a more personal project, La Music from my heart. This drama played by Meryl Streep ended in relative failure, quickly wiped out by the box office triumph of Scream 3, a new installment in the adventures of the masked serial killer .

Crumbling under the proposals of big studios, Wes Craven takes his time to finally shoot in 2004 the calamitous werewolf film Cursed, over and over again. To recover from this fiasco, the filmmaker tries a foray into the field of thrillerby confining Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy in the Red eye / High Pressure Boeing 767 (2005). He then tried his hand at romantic comedy by participating in the collective film Paris, je t'aime. In the Père Lachaise segment he stars Rufus Sewell and Emily Mortimer (whom he played in Scream 3) in an absurd quest for love guided by Oscar Wilde.

After this detour through thriller and comedy, he returned in 2010 with My Soul To Take (we had to wait until 2012 to see the film land in French theaters) to what he knew better to stage: serial killers . A way to get back in the bath before making Scream 4, the highly anticipated sequel to what is now his most popular saga.

Wes Craven 's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & many more details have been updated below.

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Wes Craven Net Worth 2022

Wes Craven 's revenue is $1.8M in 2022. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Wes Craven and could vary in the range between $894K - $1.5M.

Wes Craven Net Worth 2021

Wes Craven 's revenue is $1.7M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Wes Craven and could vary in the range between $750K - $1.4M.

Wes Craven Net Worth 2020

Wes Craven 's revenue is $1.3M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Wes Craven and could vary in the range between $523.1K - $1.6M.

Wes Craven Net Worth 2019

Wes Craven 's revenue is $1.6M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Wes Craven and could vary in the range between $950.3K - $1.5M.

Wes Craven Net Worth 2018

Wes Craven 's revenue is $1.8M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Wes Craven and could vary in the range between $566.6K - $1.8M.

Wes Craven Net Worth 2017

Wes Craven 's revenue is $1.3M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Wes Craven and could vary in the range between $980.5K - $1.7M.

Wes Craven Net Worth 2016

Wes Craven 's revenue is $1.4M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Wes Craven and could vary in the range between $985.8K - $1.7M.

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