D'entre a suya filmografía, se puet citar as cintas The Last House on the Left (1972, con Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln y Jeramie Rain), The Hills Have Eyes (1977, con Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer y Dee Wallace-Stone), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, con John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp y Robert Englund), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988, con Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae y Paul Winfield), Shocker (1989, con Michael Murphy, Peter Berg y Mitch Pileggi), The People Under the Stairs (1991, con Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A. J. Langer, Ving Rhames y Sean Whalen), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994, con Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes y John Saxon), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995, con Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne y Kadeem Hardison), Scream (1996, con David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich y Drew Barrymore), u Red Eye (2005, con Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy y Brian Cox).