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IT'S ALL IN THE FAMILY - WES CRAVEN KICK PART ONE

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Watching Wes Craven's early career has been a blast and fascinating .    Like his first theatrical movie, you can feel Craven working how to work his themes into his movies, to varying success.  What has been intersting about tracking Craven's career is seeing how he would weave his favourite prominate themes into his gigs.  Wes Craven was very much a working director, he went where ever the money was, which is why his career is so varied with the horror genre, TV Movies and Antholgies as well as the movies he is known for.  Through watching Craven movies you can really see him experiementing with tone and themes      Because I have already gone into depth on Last House on the Left in my Meeting of Minds Double.  I am going to start my Craven Kick with Cravens sophomore theatrical release, The Hills Have Eyes     THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977) The Happiest Place on Earth - The Astor For a sadistic grimy movie, The Hills Have Eyes has ...