Wes Craven is a great director stuck in an age and a system that doesn’t show him the respect he deserves.

“Red Eye” is the second movie of his to be released this year, after “Cursed,” a reasonably entertaining werewolf movie that shot on and off for three years while the script by the smart screenwriter Kevin Williamson (“Scream”), was reworked and retooled, over and over. Once the R-rated movie was finished, the studio decided it wanted a PG-13, and the editor, Patrick Lussier, was forced to rob it of its violence and gore, the two reasons people go to see a werewolf picture.

What I liked about “Cursed,” and what the critic Theo Panayides so eloquently deduced about it, was its subtext. Like Williamson’s other movies, “Cursed” honored the movies that inspired it, and turns the werewolf question on its head. In “Cursed,” the disease is the reward for rampant heterosexuality, and only homosexuals are immune, even redeemed.

Now, Panayides’ friend Mike D’Angelo, in his Nerve.com review, has pinpointed the most fascinating thing about “Red Eye,”