In what may go down as the most interesting interviews we've ever read, the New York Times posted an interview segment they had with director Wes Craven. While Craven discuses the status of SCREAM 4, the shocker from the interview comes when Craven is asked about his poorly received film MY SOUL TO TAKE. Quite a sobering statement follows. Feast on it after the break...

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Craven comments on MY SOUL TO TAKE performing poorly and possible end to horror directing:

"I'll tell you right now, being blindingly honest," he said, "I have a film out I poured my heart and soul into for four years and it's doing poorly. It's had horrible reviews, I feel lanced and torn apart and scared I'll never work again. I've had things like this happen in my career over a period of time. I've made films that didn't do well, two films in a row that didn't do well. When I wrote 'Nightmare On Elm Street' I'd been out of work for quite a while, I tried three years to get someone to take it seriously. I've been out of work, I've lost all the money I had at times when I thought I'd be set for life. I think there's something about it that's very surreal. I get very nervous when people introduce me as 'the master of horror', I don't feel worthy of that whatsoever. There's tons of guys out there doing great stuff. I kind of feel like a cat on a hot tin roof, I don't know how long I can last. I've gone 40 years, I was thinking of doing one more decade but maybe I'll retire, I can't tell."

With mouths open, we are left wondering what the future will hold after the director wraps with SCREAM 4. Below are some comments as his possible last horror film is in the cutting room:

"It's been ten years since the last 'Scream' so it's a look back at that decade in film. Two of the central character kids are in the film club, and are trying to solve the crime of who's the killer by seeing how it's working in the context of genre filmmaking today. It's in the grand scheme of 'Scream' but looking at the culture of kids who like that kind of film."

"This whole concept of 'rules'," he continued, "I've always been leery of the whole concept because a rule is essentially a cliché, and the first thing you want to do is not use the cliché, but it's fun to play with clichés, to have something onscreen that appears to be a cliché, and then of course you have to subvert the cliché. I think the 'Scream' franchise has always been about doing the opposite of what we expect."

Source: STYD