The world of horror lost one of its true masters over the weekend, as Wes Craven passed away on Sunday after a battle with brain cancer at the age of seventy-six. Craven was a true legend in the art of terror, a man who did wonders in his efforts to take a critically-reviled, little-watched genre from the fun-but-hokey classics into an art form that was commercially respected, if not critically so. Craven’s extensive filmography includes some of the greatest modern horror films.
