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It's kinda sad, really. He said as far back as the mid-90s that he was done with horror movies. He even created Scream as an attempt to eulogize the slasher genre; something which inadvertently galvanized it. When Sam Raimi was making Spider-Man movies, Wes Craven was working on Cursed; a PG-13 werewolf movie which started strong before giving up and becoming intentionally campy.

It's sad. Both are/were talented directors. But one was able to escape the typecasting while the other was forced to continue making scary movies with diminishing returns. The Breed, an abysmal film about killer dogs, used his name as a stamp of approval even though he didn't write or direct it. Sam Raimi's window out of the horror genre was the somewhat horror-ish superhero movie, Darkman. I can't help but wonder how Wes Craven might have fared if he'd been granted a similar opportunity.