As a huge fan of his work I'm sad we don't get to see another reinvention of horror akin to what he did with scream. Craven sort of puttered in the first 20 ye

As a huge fan of his work I'm sad we don't get to see another reinvention of horror akin to what he did with scream. Craven sort of puttered in the first 20 years of his career - first a professor, then a porn director (why not), then with a couple of smaller hits (last house on the left). prior to Scream his big moment was clearly nightmare on elmstreet - he was 45 when it came out. And I think the HN crowd that's gone through fundraising can relate to how this risky director with a big, crazy idea had to work to put it together: "the film's original investors backed out at one point or another during pre-production. The original budget was merely $700,000. "It ended up at $1.1 million ... Half the funding came from a Yugoslavian guy who had a girlfriend he wanted in movies."[1] How cool, will miss this guy who clearly brought the hustle. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street