Thanks for the concern, Roi. Feeling almost back to abnormal::big grin::. Enjoy your time off, and I'm glad you finally get to have that Craven marathon!

I suppose I will be trying to watch something NOT connected to Wes Craven today. I've watched a bunch of Wes's flicks over the last two days and it's really been bittersweet. It's a thrill to watch the work of a master, but man, it's hard to think of the horror universe without Craven in it.

For posterity and with a lot of love and respect, My top ten Wes Craven films:

The Hills Have Eyes 1977
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Wes Craven's new Nightmare
Scream
Last House On The Left

no surprises there, huh? Well, I do love the classics.

May he RIP.

It is just so unbelievable. He was always one of my favorite horror movie directors. Some people say he is overrated, but I have always disagreed with this position. In honor of Wes Craven, I have decided to do an extended Wes Craven marathon, which I just began today. Here is the full list of my planned marathon:

Day 1 (today): The Last House on the Left (1972)

Day 2: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Day 3: Deadly Blessing

Day 4: Swamp Thing

Day 5: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Day 6: The Hills Have Eyes 2 (1985)

Day 7: The Serpent and the Rainbow

Day 8: Shocker

Day 9: The People Under the Stairs

Day 10: Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Day 11: Vampire in Brooklyn

Day 12: Scream

Day 13: Scream 2

Day 14: Music of the Heart (not actually horror, I know)

Day 15: Scream 3

Day 16: Cursed

Day 17: Red Eye

Day 18: My Soul to Take

Day 19: Scream 4

Sure thing! 8)
I'm starting with the Hills, but I found The Breed and I've never seen it, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare is still on Netflix and I haven't seen it. Would be opportune times to watch those too wouldn't it? Might move my list around, but it has certainly begun.

So true, buddy.

Are you including some sequels in there? Cause I count 5 not 10.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare is a really good one. In my opinion, it is Craven's best film. While the first Nightmare film is certainly a classic and definitely wins points for its (relative) originality, New Nightmare is great because it takes the Nightmare series in an interesting new, if short-lived, direction. It is also the only slasher based film that I actually consider scary. It also utilized the meta plot before that technique was popularized for the horror genre by Craven's later film Scream. Now, this is not to say that the earlier films weren't great. They were. His best films outside of Scream and Nightmare were the Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, and The Serpent and the Rainbow. Of all the films Craven made, these films stand out as being among the best, but I still think that New Nightmare exceeds them all and it is actually pretty underrated itself. Most times if it even gets a reference, it's kind of an afterthought. Like "oh, yeah, that one was good. I like Freddy." Totally ignoring that the greatness of this film was that it was something very unique.

^ Welp, I'm sold. Thanks for the recommendation! I wanted something between Hills Have Eyes (watching original then remake, sequels were okay but don't feel like rewatching them with everything else on my list). I'll give it a try next. 8)

I had a little mini Wes-a-thon last night, it just made me sad. ::sad:: I didn't even know he was sick!! Was that common knowledge or no??? I was totally shocked.

I think that he kept it private.

I second this. New Nightmare was a blast, it was intense and fun. It had everything a Freddy movie should have.

Starting my NOES marathon