In several times in my life I've done things without a great deal planning but just following an impulse or passion and I in the course of teaching I think I five years, I saw just about every art film and good film.

In the 70s were such an amazing period, both European and American filmmaking, that I just wanted to do that and I had no clue what kind of movies to make and I just went to New York to learn how to do it and beyond that I didn't have a plan. Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror

Podcasting from the Hard Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea

Subusati and surprise we are back I wish we are back.

I wish we were back this month with a happier reason,

but I am glad we're doing this.

This is going to be a bit of a mini episode.

And some people wrote into us and asked asked about it and we posted about this

on our social media channels and a lot of people reacted very strongly to this so

we felt that it was important to do at least a small tribute to the writer and director

Wes Craven who very suddenly and very sadly passed away at the end of August.

Right, I mean very suddenly to us, if he had been sick for a while they really kept it under Rops, which on the one hand I understand and respect people's need for privacy, but on the other hand when I actually found out about this a friend of mine had confused

Wes Craven with Clive Barker so I got a text that oh Clive Barker's dead and I was like

oh Jesus fuck you know he was really sick that's terrible it's a tragedy and

then when I found out it was West Craven then you've got shock on top of the grief

It's a really huge loss to horror so we wanted to take the time to talk about it.

Yeah, I've been working on a bigger project outside of the podcast.

I've taken a break one night from working on this and I'll talk more about it soon.

But I taken a break from it and I watched this comedy movie and I was like okay yeah I'm fine everything's

fine and I went on Facebook and the first thing I saw was a picture of West Craven and

R. A. P. on it and I went on Twitter and I had my Facebook open and I just kept

refreshing hoping that someone would be like, oh, whoops, it's a hoax.

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