DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER HORROR VICTORY -- WES CRAVEN

http://cnnphilippines.com/entertainment/2015/08/31/Horror-filmmaker-A-Nightmare-on-Elm-Street-Scream-Wes-Craven-dead.html

DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER HORROR VICTORY

All horror centers around this central component -- Death!

For humans, what is more horrible that the thought of meeting death?

And, in what way will you meet death?

By a snake bite?

By a car crash?

Eaten by an animal predator?

Killed by another human being?

Or, will you meet death vicariously by way of the imagination of another human --

Be he, or she, a writer or a film maker.

I've always preferred to meet death and horror through the imagination,

And through the lens,

Of a horror master like... Wes Craven!

And, son-of-a-bitch,
How ironic is it that death itself...
The ultimate horror trope...
Silences the masters of horror.

Goodbye, Wes Craven.
I have known your work for all of my life.
I will miss you and your powers... until death claims me, too.


Ronald Lee Jones
RLJ