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Wes Craven Initially Turned Down ‘Scream’ Because He Wanted To Get Out Of The “Horror Ghetto”

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After launching his career in horror in the ‘70s, the next decade brought Wes Craven a ton of success thanks to his “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise.

By the ‘90s, however, after directing what he thought was the end of ‘Nightmare’ franchise with 1994’s “New Nightmare,” Craven was apparently ready to leave horror behind and start making other types of films.

But then came “Scream.” According to a recent oral history from THR, it is revealed that Wes Craven was very much against working on “Scream” when Dimension offered him the job in the mid-‘90s.

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