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Director Wes Craven died today in Los Angeles. Craven was 76 and passed away after battling brain cancer.
From his first feature film The Last House On The Left in 1972, Craven immediately made his mark as a genre-bending, bracingly innovative horror director with a biting sense of humour.
Craven also consistently demonstrated that he was a filmmaker with heart.
Craven reinvented the youth horror genre again in 1984 with the classic and very scary A Nightmare on Elm Street, which also introduced a then-unknown Johnny Depp.