the hills have eyes (1977)

aka Blood Relations.
"You folks gone to far."
A family on a detour to view a silver mine, whilst moving to California. They crash when they reaslise they have ventured into a USAF nuclear testing range. Unfortunately for them a clan still lives there scavenging what they can, including humans...
Craven's homage to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, sees him produce a taught thriller, with plenty of shocks. A true classic.

cursed (2005)

"What doesn't kill you..."
Werewolf story updated to modern day Hollywood. Ellie (Christina Ricci) and her little brother (Jesse Eisenberg) are involved in a car crash, it gets decidedly beastly when they are attacked by a beast. Both take turns for the worst, betraying signs that the beast was a werewolf and they are no both cursed to follow in its paw prints. It's a race against time to find out who has it in for them. Whilst it is competently made, by the Scream duo of Williamson and Craven, this never quite cuts it as a horror, or as a teen angst movie. american, dimension films, horror, werewolf,

last house on the left (1972)

"You can ride on the roof."
Two teenage girls (Sandra Peabody & Lucy Grantham) head off to New York from the suburbs for a night out, but are instead kidnapped by a gang of psychotic escaped prisoners intent on rape and murder.
Horror movie that tempers its uncomfortable realism with some cartoon like ineptitude of the police.

scream (1996)

"Now Sid, don't you blame the movies, movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative!"
On the anniversary of the death of Sidney's (Neve Campbell) mother, two students are found butchered. Sidney begins to suspect there is a serial killer at work. No one is safe and everyone's a suspect.
One of those films that re-freshes a genre, in this case horror. Craven produces a film that renews the formula of teens in trouble slasher flick, with a witty and inventive script from Kevin Williamson.

the serpent and the rainbow (1988)

"I want to hear you scream!"
An anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) wants to investigate the medicinal properties of the drugs used by voodoo priests use to create zombies in Haiti. But to do so he has to tread a fine line between the voodoo priests, and the Tonton Macoute, the violent thugs running Haiti.
A disturbing horror, due to its being situated within the very real brutality of the Papa Doc regime, where life was cheap and Zakes Mokae playing a more than convincing paramilitary leader with a more than just a nasty streak.

a nightmare on elm street (1984)

"Everyone has to dream."
Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is having nightmares, horribly realistic nightmares, where Freddie Kruger (Robert Englund) is killing people. People who then die in reality. But what could be causing them, and why will no one tell her who Freddie is?
An 80's horror classic that started the series and kick-started Johnny Depps career.

the people under the stairs (1991)

aka Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs.
"Leave them alone. I've heard things about them, bad things."
A young boy nicknamed Fool (Brandon Quintin Adams) is persuaded to help burgle his landlord's house. Once inside he becomes trapped when the landlords (Everett McGill and Wendy Robie) return. Hiding in the rambling house, he finds they are keeping kidnapped boys there and when he befriends their daughter Alice (A.J. Langer), he finds out about the true horror inflicted on the children. He becomes determined to rescue them and expose the landlords and their wicked practices, helped by Alice and a boy who lives in the wall space Roach (Sean Whalen).
A nicely realised film full of suspence, with the odd bit of black humour as release.