Wes Craven

Director who introduced the world to the terrifying Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series and redefined the horror genre with his semi-satirical horror/comedy Scream films. He also directed the horror films The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left, Red Eye, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare. He worked as a professor of English at Westminster College and humanities at Clarkson College of Technology before landing his first film job as a sound editor for a New York City post-p