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Updated at 4.30pm
WES CRAVEN, A master of cinema horror whose directorial credits include A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, died Sunday aged 76.
“It is with deep sadness we inform you that Wes Craven passed,” the family said in a statement, noting that Craven had been battling brain cancer.
“Craven was surrounded by love, in the presence of his family at his Los Angeles home.”
Craven directed 1984′s A Nightmare on Elm Street, whose terrifying villain Freddy Krueger was reprised in several sequels and a 2010 remake.
Krueger, who wore a scruffy fedora and had a glove with razor blades attached to the fingers, would visit his victims in their dreams and slash them to death. The first film in the franchise included a character played by a then-unknown Johnny Depp.
“He made nightmares seem real, the things that scare you in your subconscious can harm you, get to you,” said Richard Potter, a movie writer and producer who worked with Craven on the Scream franchise.
Craven also directed several episodes of The Twilight Zone revival in the 1980s and during the 1990s he made three films in the Scream series, with a fourth in 2011.
The first film featured Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Drew Barrymore, and told the story of a US high school targeted by a cloaked killer called Ghostface who wears a ghoulish mask based on The Scream painting by Edvard Munch.
Other tributes began pouring in after news of Craven’s passing.
“My friend Wes has left us too soon,” said horror director John Carpenter, whose films include classics such as The Thing and an adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine.
“He was truly an Old School director,” Carpenter said in a posting on Facebook.
Potter praised Craven’s cinematic smarts and his ability to build characters.
“He was such a genuinely nice guy,” Potter said. “You felt like you were talking to your favorite professor.”
Ohio native Craven, who once taught English, had a graduate degree in philosophy and writing.
“Thank you for being the kindest man, the gentlest man, and one of the smartest men I’ve known. Please say there’s a plot twist,” actress Rose McGowan, a Scream veteran, said on Twitter.
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In fairness, if it says “Free park and ride”. I could see why somebody would think the luas journey was also free.
Exactly. Even if you’re at a P&R facility it makes it sound like the ride part is free too.
I suppose they didn’t get a return ticket because they were on their way to see “The Neverending Story” : )
@Ace: Yeah, that would make some sense. It doesn’t say that though.. It says “Luas P+R free Aug Hol “. At a place where there is no Park and Ride, so it’s not even vaguely obvious what P+R is. Also, “Free Park and ride” would make me think that both the parking and the riding were free. :) No?
Would it really have been that difficult to state “Free Parking at Park and Ride” instead, and just put up the sign at Park and Ride locations? Using words and common sense maybe. Crazy, suggestion I know!
In the USA it’s called “kiss and ride” God knows what this woman’s Gobsh*te kids would have thought they’re getting with that.
This was a genuine case of misunderstanding but one would wonder how transdev could ever hope to break even with the amount of people who travel without paying.
They’re subsidised by the Govmint no public transport system anywhere in the world generates enough revenue to pay their own way
In my experience you need to make things like the luas, train stations and airports as simple as possible as you have to cater to first time users and tourists who may not be able to speak the language. I’ve been all over the world and most places make it so easy it’s almost impossible to go wrong. It’s not hard to do. Then there are places that seemingly don’t give a s#@t. I think we should make sure Ireland falls into the former category.
Totally agree Awkward.
Teens not paying their fare on the green line, shocker :-P
There’s no such thing as a free ride !
@Kevin Ward: Or free park.
I was so disappointed that I didn’t get my free pernod and red that day
Woof
how much are the fines for not buying a Ticket on the Luas? just curious , I live in Switzeland and the fine is about 80 euro.
@Patrick Ramseyer: Not sure it matters a lot what the fine is in Dublin, because from what I’ve heard, no one ever pays it.
100
Not sure Patrick I just throw them away and they’ve never come after me
Sometimes I think that officialdom makes it so difficult for companies and businesses, big and small,to operate. IMHO, a ridiculous ruling…
Let’s keep rewarding stupidity. Look at the bonus prize we all got from that in the form of Trump and his cabinet.
Ignorance is no excuse to law. Silly ruling, makes a mockery of the system. At least the lads got some extra pocket money in town.
@Niall Ó Dochartaigh: agreed, transdev were quite ignorant on this occasion.
They still had to pay the fine. This was just the advertising standards authority ruling the ad broke the industry voluntary code of practice. It has no legal powers to make any order for the the fine to be refunded
Park n ride doesnt work anyway, i parked there for 2 hours last week but didnt get a ride.
Did no body flash there light or did you forget to flash yours? The Big boys tell me that’s how it works.
So I was the fine cancelled or refunded?
No…this was just the Advertising Standards Authority finding that the advertising industry voluntary code of practice was breached, they have no legal authority to force anyone to do anything. It was a completely pointless exercise to lodge this complaint against Transdev they wouldn’t have even sent a lawyer to hearing just their public relations people would have attended.
They knew exactly what the sign ment.but we’ll done god loves a tryer
There was a Court case last July re the LUAS where the Judge said that the ticket inspectors cannot stop you on the platform to ask you for a ticket because that is the ‘public highway’ and its only a Guard that can challenge you on the ‘public highway’ so LUAS inspectors, or any other inspector for that matter, can only challenge you on board the LUAS/Bus etc.
I suppose it’s free park and ride for the Dogging. Community!
I guess you had to be be there to get that
In few months we’ll read how it cost half million of euros to establish what free park and ride mean and oxford English commission had to be established and called. It’s not scary what these morons spend their time debating about when there’s thousands of important issues around.
The red line should be called ‘The Mainline Express’
I also got caught out by this and went dogging at the Red Cow Luas Car Park. Hope my fine is overturned
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