Wes Craven, Producer/Director/Writer/Actor, Dies When Wes Craven passed away at age 76, it sparked controversy. Well, at least in my household. Because on the Today Show, we heard Matt Belloni with the Hollywood Reporter credit Craven as “helping to invent a genre in the 80s with A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), which Craven then turned on its head and poked fun at that … Continue reading What Was the First Horror/Slasher Film?