Wes Craven, director of Red Eye, A nightmare on Elm Street and other films has signed on to do horror focused movies with Rouge Pictures. The folks over at cinemablend.com give us this:
Slasher master Wes Craven will try to redeem himself for ruining Red Eye with that godawful finale by writing and directing a new horror pic for Rogue Pictures. He’s signed a deal with them that gives him his own production company (Midnight Pictures) and a mandate for making horror films with below $15 million budgets.Variety says the first new Craven movie made under that deal (though not from Midnight Pics) will be a supernatural thriller with a 16-year-old protagonist. As he did with Red Eye, Wes promises to continue moving away from his slasher roots and move instead in the direction of films like The Sixth Sense.
There seems to be quite a trend happening in Hollywood these days, low budget is in. Yesterday Martin Scorsese announced he is going independent, now Craven is following suit.
And I think it’s great, when you have to watch your spending you get a lot more creative. Suddenly horror is about tension again not special effects gore, the stories become more interesting and unique.
I like a good horror movie as well as thrillers, when I saw A Nightmare on Elm Street I was shaken to the core, true I was only ten but I still love the movie today because it played on the uncontrollable imagination of our dreams. Will his new supernatural thriller be more interesting that his later movies like Red Eye or The Music of Our Hearts? Well he’s written and directed it but there is hardly any info so far.
Here’s hoping that Wes Craven has let his imagination go wild.
