Particularly loved by horror fans for helming popular genre movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, Craven passed away in 2015 after a battle with brain cancer at the age of 76.
Nearly five years after his death, horror fans across the world are remembering iconic movie director Wes Craven on what would have been his 81st birthday.
Craven had a hand in developing multiple horror movie franchises, but he is obviously very well known for creating Freddy Krueger.
Some of his other popular horror movies with fans include Shocker, The People Under the Stairs, Deadly Blessing, Vampire in Brooklyn, Red Eye, and The Serpent and the Rainbow.