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Article: Alexandre Aja and Wes Craven view `Hills' with new `Eyes'.
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- March 10, 2006
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Byline: Daniel Fienberg
LOS ANGELES _ Wes Craven has some very strong feelings about the recent trend toward increasingly violent and sadistic R-rated horror films.
"Bad. Horrible. Disgusting." Craven announces. "Those filmmakers should be taken out and shot. Then we'd have less competition."
The director of "Last House on the Left," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Scream" pauses to let the laughter die down. Then Craven's more analytical side kicks in.
"I don't know why it's going that way," he reflects. "It sort of follows its own patterns. It occurs to me we're in very violent times in a way that's quite personal."
Craven ...