Wes Craven: Every Movie Ranked Worst To Best

What do you do when you've made horror movies your whole career - including some of the most integral and impressive in the whole bloody genre - and have really just had enough of watching convention after convention come to the screen? Well, you brew up the best comment on tropes, cliches, and audience expectation you possibly can and flip everything we know on its head in what's essentially the best spoof movie ever made. The intelligent catch being that it's that it's spoofing cinema itself.

Scream is just a pleasure to watch. It's self referential to the point of farce, but still remains a tight, engaging horror story underneath all its clever jiggery pokery about what slashers had become since the rise of the knife wielding maniac in the 80s. Ghostface is a welcome addition to the ranks of inventive villains, and Craven's script created a movie that has defined what the genre is and how it functions ever since.

As perfect as Scream is though, it's still a comment on what came before it. Craven's best movie and one of the defining entries into horror, there's only one that could ever have come top...