Horror Director Craven Films Clinton

L O S  A N G E L E S, Feb. 1 -- Maybe they’ll call it Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Horror movie director Wes Craven, the man behind suchslasher classics as Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street, hasmade a film of former President Bill Clinton giving a WhiteHouse tour during his last days in office, a spokesman for oneof the movie’s producers said Wednesday.

Footage of the tour is to be edited into an hourlongdocumentary that will eventually be shown at the future Clintonpresidential library in Arkansas, the spokesman said.

Three-Hour Tour

Craven spent nearly three hours following Clinton throughthe historic mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, including theOval Office, Cabinet room and other areas normally off-limitsto the public. The crew then went back through rarely visitedprivate quarters at the first lady’s request to film forposterity.

“I was thinking, ‘Here I am. I’ve made some of the mosthorrific films, and now I’m in the White House,'” Craven wasquoted as telling columnist Roger Friedman for FoxNews.com.“Someone said I should have brought a Scream mask and havesomeone jump out in it, but that would have been the last timewe would have been invited over.”

The movie, which is still in production, is beingco-produced by Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein andJane Rosenthal of Tribeca Productions, Robert De Niro’s filmcompany, Weinstein spokesman Matthew Hiltzik said.

Miramax has distributed several of Craven’s movies.

Hiltzik said the idea for the documentary arose afterCraven visited the White House for a screening of his movieMusic of the Heart last year. The tour, he said, was filmedsometime during Clinton’s last week in office.

Chamber of Horrors

Fox online columnist Friedman quoted one source whoobserved the filming as saying, “We were a little nervous inplaces, thinking about what went on there. At one point,Clinton said something like, ‘back when they were trying to getrid of me,’ with no apparent guilt.”