{"id":57423,"date":"2015-08-31T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T07:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=57423"},"modified":"2015-08-31T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T07:45:58","slug":"wes-craven-horror-maestro-dies-at-76-57423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wes-craven-horror-maestro-dies-at-76-57423\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Craven, horror maestro, dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wes-craven-dies.jpg\" alt=\"Wes Craven\" width=\"610\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wes-craven-dies.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wes-craven-dies-280x166.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wes-craven-dies-606x360.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>U.S. director Wes Craven, who was behind some of the most popular horror films of all time, has died at the age of 76, U.S. media reported Sunday.<\/h1>\n<p>Craven died of brain cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his family said in a statement reported by ABC news.<\/p>\n<p>His death has also been confirmed on his official Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939, Craven&#8217;s directorial debut was The Last House on the Left (1972), a low-budget horror film which gained notoriety for its explicit depiction of the brutal abuse and slaughter of two teenage girls at the hands of a gang of criminals.<\/p>\n<p>His breakthrough hit in 1984, A Nightmare on Elm Street, which spawned eight sequels, introduced the Freddy Krueger character to the world &#8211; the infamous villain armed with razors at the fingertips of his right hand who haunted the dreams of teenagers would become a household name.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, he directed the first of another successful horror franchise, Scream, which kicked off new trends in the teen horror genre (Anadolu Agency).<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. director Wes Craven, who was behind some of the most popular horror films of all time, has died at the age of 76, U.S. media reported Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,122,63,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cinema","category-daily","category-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}