Toy companies are always eager to launch new toy lines based on popular movies or kid’s cartoons but then we also have cartoons like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe which was basically a thirty-minute commercial for Mattel, and sometimes this worked and sometimes it didn’t. In the early 90s, Kenner teamed up with…
Tag: Wes Craven
Swamp Thing (1982) From Comic Book to Screen
In 1971 writer Len Wein and legendary artist Bernie Wrightson created one of the most iconic and interesting creations to ever grace the pages of DC Comics Swamp Thing, and then roughly ten years later Wes Craven tried to bring this tortured hero’s story to the big screen.
Wes Craven – August 2nd 1939 – August 30th 2015
Raised in a strict baptist house hold, and very well educated (undergraduate degree in English and Psychology with a masters in Philosophy and Writing), Craven was bitten by the film bug while teaching, and got into film making via 70’s porno. From there he grew to the master of horror that we all know and love, and is the singular director that sent me running from, and back to horror.
Red Eye (2005) – Review
By the end of the 90s director, Wes Craven had already cemented his position as one of the true kings of horror, from grungy low-budget offerings like The Hills Have Eyes, a supernatural outing that brought the world Freddy Krueger and the meta-horror of the Scream franchise, but in 2005 with a screenplay by Carl…