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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Metro Goldwyn Mayer DVD EAN: 9780792853190 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792853199 Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: D1003674D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 27, 2002 Running Time: 84 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1972 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Future Nightmare creator and Scream weaver Wes Craven's film debut is a primitive little production that rises above its cut-rate production values and hazy, grainy patina via its grimly affecting portrait of human evil infiltrating a middle-class household. The story is adapted from Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, but the film has more in common with Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs as it charts the descent of a harmless married couple into methodical killers. A quartet of criminals--a distorted version of the nuclear family--kidnaps a pair of teenage girls and proceeds to ravage, rape, torture, and finally brutally murder them in the woods, unwittingly within walking distance of their rural home. The killers take refuge in the girls' own home, but when the parents discover just who they are and what they've done, they plot violent retribution. Along with George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Craven helped redefine American horror with this debut--all three movies portray modern society crumbling into madness and horror. But, unlike his fellow directors, Craven gives his film an uncomfortable verisimilitude, setting it squarely in the heartland of modern America. While at times it's awkward and inconsistent, with distracting comic interludes, his handling of the brutal horror scenes is unsettling, and the death of the daughter is an unexpectedly quiet and lyrical moment. --Sean Axmaker Description: Bold, powerful and starkly realistic, this chilling cinematic debut of horror master Wes Craven (Scream) is a shocking journey into the heart of evil. Written and directed with almost unbearable dramatic tension (Chicago Sun-Times), The Last House on the Left will make you deadbolt your doors and frantically mutter: It's only a movie it's only a movie it's only a movie! Easy-going Mari Collingwood and her fun-loving friend Phyllis are on their way to a Bloodlust concert to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday when three escaped convicts kidnap and torture them. But Mari and Phyllis are fighters, and although they are drugged and beaten into unconsciousness, stuffed into a car trunk and driven into the woods for even more brutality, they are still alive...but for how long? Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Gritty, violent, brutal...This is how it's done!I think it would be worth mentioning that I'm really not much of a Craven fan, at least to distinguish the fact that I'm not just writing this review to counter act the plethora of negative reviews here. This film of his however, The Last House on the Left, definetly has something to it. Raw, gritty, and primitive, this low budget revenge tale has a feel more disturbingly real than a good percentage of horror/exploitation flicks out there. Two teen girls head out to see a concert and ... Read More Rating:  - The Lame House on the LeftI know a lot of people who love this movie and swear its the best thing since Suspiria. NOT TRUE!! At least in my humble opinion. I watched it when it came on demand (cable people know) and I am so glad I did not waste my money on this ridiculous movie. Two idiot girls are chased and raped and everything else by these dumb convicts. Unless I am wrong, and believe me, I tried to give it a fair chance and watched it twice, I just don't see what all the fuss is about. Proven by the fact ... Read More Rating: - Last House on the LeftThe movie was recommended to us and was a huge disappointment. It was definitely a B rated movie. The music DID not fit with the plot or the scenes. We ended up selling it to the person who recommended it. Rating: - snuff anyone?Snuff flick... The chic that gets it with a knife slowly by the tree is hot. Rating: - Very disturbing, sick & sadistic torture movieThis ranks right up there with I Spit On Your Grave. I can't conceive how some fans of cult/horror films would possibly find something like this entertaining & want to put it in their collections. It is NOT entertaining or enjoyable in the least. Almost an hour & a half of two young women being raped & tortured by pathetic scumbags is not my idea of a good movie. It is unnerving, unsettling & very sad. I would have given it zero stars if I could, but that wasn't an option, I guess. I strongly ... Read More |
