Card-carrying Contrarian.
Film student and future critic.
Batman & Star Wars Expert.

1972
Wes Craven is heralded as a horror legend. Director of massively influential classics such as ‘Scream’ and ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’, he once walked out of a screening of the Tarantino classic ‘Reservoir Dogs’, during a particularly gruesome scene. He claimed that it was exploitative and that what was shown did not aid the story. (I’m not sure if this story is true, but I became aware of it due to highly respected critic Mark Kermode, who claims that Craven…