The Last House on the Left
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 24, 2009
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | David Hess, Lucy Grantham & Sandra Peabody | |
Performer: | Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler & Fred Lincoln | |
Directed by | Wes Craven | |
Edited by | Wes Craven | |
Screenwriting by | Wes Craven | |
Produced by | Sean S. Cunningham |
Entertainment Reviews:
A piss poor horror film with terrible production qualities.
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Cinema Crazed
Craven's cold, flat style of filming emphasises the fact that the violence dehumanises not only the victims but the aggressors.
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Time Out
Indelibly scummy, Wes Craven's freshman shocker is less a rip-off of The Virgin Spring than a purposefully degraded update, with the medieval barbarism of the original cannily transplanted to Vietnam-era America.
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CinePassion
The film is violent and seedy, an atmosphere made more effective by the use of unknown actors and a semi-documentary style... But Craven also introduces the kind of grace notes that he would use throughout his career.
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Spectrum Culture
Rating: 4/5 --
The film, to its credit, details both the initial acts of violation and the revenge that ensues as similarly de-humanising and reprehensible.
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BBC.com
Rating: C+ --
It's pretty to look at and ugly to digest.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It isn't artistically adroit, but if success in this genre is counted by squirms, it's a success.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
Wes Craven's nightmarish odyssey of revenge helped to usher in a new era of graphic horror filmmaking in the early 1970s. Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960), THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a parent's worst nightmare come to terrifying life. Beautiful 17-year-olds Mari (Sandra Cassel) and Phyllis (Lucy Grantham) head into the city for a rock concert, but once there, they're kidnapped by three repulsive, sadistic escaped convicts led by Krug Stillo (a menacing David Hess). After the gang drives the girls into the woods, where they rape and murder them, the disheveled crew ends up at the home of none other than Mari's parents, John (Gaylord St. James) and Estelle (Cynthia Carr). When John discovers who has unknowingly walked into his home, he exacts a revenge that makes the convicts' actions seem tame by comparison.
Working on a shoestring budget and coaxing naturalistic performances out of his actors (with the exception of two bumbling law enforcement officers), Craven displays the talent that he would later develop on a grand scale with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and SCREAM. Certainly not for the fainthearted, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT remains one of the most visceral horror films ever made.
Special features include:
- Audio commentary with actors David Hess, Marc Sheffler and Fred Lincoln
- Still Standing: The Legacy of The Last House on the Left with Wes Craven
- Celluloid Crime of the Century Documentary
- Scoring Last House Featurette
- Tales That Will Tear Your Heart Out (Unfinished Short Film) by Wes Craven
- Deleted scenes and never-before-seen footage