Wes Craven Profile – Special (September 1st, 2015)

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🗓️ 2 September 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Popcorn Talk proudly presents Profiles with Malone and Mantz! In this vodcast series hosts Alicia Malone and Scott "Movie" Mantz break down and focus on some of the most prolific Hollywood directors, writers and actors in the entertainment industry - past & present. Today we're doing a special memoriam episode to remember the horror icon Wes Craven. Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, writer, producer, and actor known for his work on horror films, particularly slasher films. He was best known for creating the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise featuring the Freddy Krueger character, directing the first installment and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and co-writing A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with Bruce Wagner. Craven also directed all four films in the Scream series, and co-created the Ghostface character. Some of his other films include The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left, Red Eye and My Soul to Take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Popcorn Talk Network.
0:02.0	For the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news and interviews, press one.
0:09.0	Popcorn Talk, we talk movies.
0:26.3	From the Popcorn Talk Network, the online broadcast network for movie talk,
0:29.3	Alicia Malone with Scott MovieMance and the Schmose Know.
0:30.7	This is Profile.
0:34.9	In-depth spotlights on the greatest filmmakers and artists in motion picture history.
0:38.5	Hello, Profilers.
0:42.3	Welcome to a very special episode of Profiles.
0:49.6	We lost one of the greats, a true visionary filmmaker, a master of horror, really did change the game repeatedly for the genre, the one and only Wes Craven.
0:54.3	So we wanted to do something to honor him.
0:56.6	This is a little mini episode of profiles, and I'm sure down the track we'll do a proper
1:00.7	full-length episode of profiles, but of course it takes a lot of time for us to put
1:04.5	together a show.
1:05.2	So we just wanted to do something quickly now to say goodbye to him because he was someone
1:09.7	who redefined the horror genre,
1:12.1	as you said, multiple times throughout three decades. He sadly passed away age 76 after a
1:18.5	battle with brain cancer. And he is responsible for me and I'm sure many people out there,
1:23.5	some of my most terrifying moments of childhood. And definitely, like we've talked about repeatedly,
1:29.8	I remember when I saw like the Hills have eyes,
1:32.1	I was disturbed by that.
1:34.0	I mean, I saw that a little later,
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