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Wes Craven

Actor · 64 credits · 36 in highly-rated films

Best known for Scream (1996)

Frequent collaborators: Robert Englund, John Carpenter, Heather Langenkamp, Sean S. Cunningham, Linnea Quigley

Best Wes Craven movies by genre

Movies (37 total, ranked by score)

  1. Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

    2010 · ★ 7.8 (172 votes)

    Documentary

    1

  2. Wes Craven's New Nightmare

    1994 · ★ 6.4 (1,635 votes)

    Horror, Mystery, Fantasy

    2

  3. The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

    2004 · ★ 7.0 (113 votes)

    Documentary, History

    3

  4. Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film

    2006 · ★ 6.8 (96 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Body Bags

    1993 · ★ 6.2 (398 votes)

    Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction

    5

  6. Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’

    2006 · ★ 8.2 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    6

  7. Tales That'll Tear Your Heart Out

    2002

    Horror, Thriller, Western

    7

  8. Trespassing Bergman

    2013 · ★ 6.6 (29 votes)

    Documentary, History

    8

  9. Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film

    2000 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    TV Movie, Documentary

    9

  10. Celluloid Crime of the Century

    2003 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    10

  11. Scream: The Inside Story

    2011 · ★ 6.0 (24 votes)

    Documentary, Horror

    11

  12. Masters of Horror

    2002 · ★ 7.7 (13 votes)

    Documentary

    12

  13. Ban the Sadist Videos!

    2005 · ★ 6.8 (26 votes)

    Documentary, History

    13

  14. AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

    2020 · ★ 6.5 (2 votes)

    Horror, Documentary

    14

  15. Looking Back at 'The Hills Have Eyes'

    2003 · ★ 5.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. I Am Nancy

    2011 · ★ 6.4 (14 votes)

    Documentary, Horror

    16

  17. Gorgon Video Magazine

    1989

    Documentary

    17

  18. AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

    2020 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Horror, Documentary

    18

  19. House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

    2013

    Documentary

    19

  20. Heartstoppers: Horror at the Movies

    1992 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    20

  21. Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

    2008 · ★ 7.0 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. Becoming a Werewolf

    2005 · ★ 3.0 (1 votes)

    Comedy, Horror

    22

  23. Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors

    1986 · ★ 6.2 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    23

  24. The Making of 'Scream 4'

    2011

    Documentary

    24

  25. Welcome to Primetime

    1999

    Documentary

    25

  26. Fear in the Dark

    1991 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    26

  27. Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger

    2012 · ★ 6.0 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    27

  28. It's Only a Movie: The Making of 'Last House on the Left'

    2002 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    28

  29. Unmasking the Horror

    1998

    Documentary

    29

  30. The Future of Fear

    2011

    Documentary

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.