Film director Wes Craven, who died on August 30, 2015 at the age of 76, was a master of the horror genre. Craven frightened audiences for decades, most notably with the A Nightmare on Elm Street series and the Scream films. He also made conventional thrillers like Red Eye and the Meryl Streep inspirational teacher story Music of My Heart, which he said was the only one of his films that his mother ever saw.
As the following quotes demonstrate, Wes Craven was a vocal defender of his specific art form. Here are eleven vocabulary words from a man whose images kept us up nights.
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