“Horror is in pretty good shape these days,” says Craven, the venerable director behind two of the biggest franchises in the genre, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. “There are a lot of young filmmakers interested in the genre who are finding good ways to get around studio expenses and making films that are astonishingly low-budget. When I do a low-budget these days, it’s $15 million.”
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