EVENT: SCREENING
CATEGORY: SPECIAL EVENT
DIRECTOR: WES CRAVEN

COUNTRY: USA
LENGTH: 85 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
GENRE: ACTION, DRAMA, THRILLER
RATING: PG-13
AGES: 13+ for some intense sequences of violence, and language

Wes Craven, known principally for his horror classics SCREAM and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, takes us  (and the nation) on a psychological thrill ride. Fasten your seatbelts, turn your cell phones off (or even better, leave them at home because there will be security at the theater monitoring for recording devices) and don't come if you already have a fear of flying!

Synopsis: Lisa Reisert hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying. Moments after takeoff, Lisa's charming seat-mate, Jackson menacingly reveals the real reason he's on board: He is an operative in a plot to kill a rich and powerful businessman... and Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her fellow passengers and her own life. As the miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of time as she desperately looks for a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a terrible murder.

Red Eye will be released nation-wide on Aug. 19, 2005.

ABOUT WES CRAVEN

Wes Craven has been challenging audiences and reinventing and deconstructing the horror genre for more than 25 years. Craven's career includes some of the most audacious films of the 70's and 80's, including his first film, Last House on the Left, which he wrote, directed, and edited in 1972 for $90,000.

Films like Shocker (1989), Deadly Friend (1986), and the cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes (1975), reveal Craven's curiosities with the absurd as much as The People Under the Stairs (1991) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1998) exhibit his penchant for examining society's myths and urban legends.

In 1984, Craven breathed new life into the youth horror genre with A Nightmare on Elm Street, a film that spawned a multi-billion dollar series of sequels and electrified the genre with refreshing intelligence and a unique brand of humor. Although Craven did not direct any of the five sequels, he deconstructed the genre a decade later with the adventurous Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which was nominated Best Feature at the 1995 Independent Spirit Awards.

Most recently, Craven has gained even greater notoriety through his Scream trilogy. The irreverent, genre-bending winner of MTV's 1996 Best Movie Award, Scream, is one of the highest-grossing horror films of all time.