10 Brilliantly Self Aware Wes Craven Cameos

Paris, Je T'Aime is an anthology feature with a level of profile, budget and professionalism about as far from Tales From The Crapper as you could possibly get, perhaps a perfect demonstration of Craven's range of styles even within his chosen genre (not to mention his disparate filmmaking pals).

Rather than disgruntled ex-Playboy models, here Craven worked alongside the likes of the Coens, Alfonso Cuaron and Gus Van Sant on a film that saw leading directors each making a short story about a different Parisian arrondissement.

Craven directed the film of the 20th Arrondissement, focusing on the famous Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, in which Rufus Sewell receives romantic advice from the ghost of Oscar Wilde (one of the cemetery's actual famous residents). Alexander Payne, who directed a separate segment, appears as Wilde and it appears that director cameos in other people's shorts is the order of the day as Craven did the same.

Despite the supernatural element and cemetery setting, Craven's short is not a horror. The one he appears in, however, uses a Craven cameo to establish itself in the genre. The man behind Vampire In Brooklyn was cast by Cube director Vincenzo Natali for his segment to play the victim of Olga Kurylenko's vampire in the Quartier de la Madeleine. (You can see him on the floor, blood leaking from his head about a minute and a half in).