Wes Craven: Best Horror Films

Created A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, and reinvented the slasher twice. Best known for Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream 2.

1. 

   Scream (1996)

   Rated 7.4 on TMDB

   A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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2. 

   A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

   Rated 7.4 on TMDB

   Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides.

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3. 

   Scream 2 (1997)

   Rated 6.5 on TMDB

   Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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4. 

   Scream 4 (2011)

   Rated 6.5 on TMDB

   Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of…

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5. 

   Scream 3 (2000)

   Rated 6.0 on TMDB

   As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

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6. 

   Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

   Rated 6.5 on TMDB

   A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

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7. 

   The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

   Rated 6.2 on TMDB

   Taking an ill-advised detour en-route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaks down in the middle of the desert.

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8. 

   Cursed (2005)

   Rated 5.3 on TMDB

   A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to kill the one who started…

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9. 

   The Last House on the Left (1972)

   Rated 6.0 on TMDB

   On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and her friend Phyllis set off from the family home to attend a rock concert in the city.

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10. 

    The People Under the Stairs (1991)

    Rated 6.6 on TMDB

    Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.

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11. 

    Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

    Rated 5.1 on TMDB

    Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea — she meets Maximilian, a smooth-talking Caribbean…

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12. 

    The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

    Rated 6.4 on TMDB

    A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead.

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13. 

    My Soul to Take (2010)

    Rated 5.5 on TMDB

    On the day the Riverton Ripper vanished without a trace, seven children were born. Today, they're all turning 16... and turning up dead.

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14. 

    Swamp Thing (1982)

    Rated 5.4 on TMDB

    Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing, a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch…

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