A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors

#3 in my ranking of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Wes Craven was convinced to come back to the franchise he accidentally birthed after the second film, which he was completely uninvolved in, made enough money to entice New Line into making a third. He returned to develop the story and write some early…

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Deadly Friend

#12 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. The contentions around this film's post-production are a bit notorious. After a negative test screening full of Wes Craven's fans, the studio looked at the film that Craven had created, a light-hearted tale of a young man, a young girl, and a robot, and decided that it…

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

#6 in my ranking of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. I can't be too hard on this first sequel in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Wes Craven might have had nothing to do with the film, thinking the potential for a sequel to his original was simply not there while New Line Cinema…

Elvis (2022)

Did you ever wonder what Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story would have been like if Baz Luhrmann had directed it? Well, wonder no more because Luhrmann made Elvis. I imagine there's a very narrow section of the moviegoing public that is going to really love it. It's going to be the small cross section…

The Hills Have Eyes: Part II

#24 in my ranking of Wes Craven's filmography. Well, it was in focus, at least. Made before A Nightmare on Elm Street, left uncompleted with only three-quarters of the film actually shot, and then hastily assembled with a heavy amount of footage from the first film right afterwards to try and capitalize on Wes Craven's…