Average Rating: 4.9/10
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Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 85
Excessive and gory, this remake lacks the intellectual punch of the 1972 original.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 17
Excessive and gory, this remake lacks the intellectual punch of the 1972 original.
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A pair of teenage girls are brutally raped and terrorized by a vicious gang of psychopaths, who subsequently find their cruelty returned tenfold when they seek sanctuary in the home of one of the victim's parents in this contemporary reworking of Wes Craven's controversial 1972 shocker. Shortly after arriving at her family's secluded lake house, Mari Collingwood (Sara Paxton) and her best friend are abducted by a sadistic prison escapee and his violent crew. Left for dead and nearly in shock
Mar 13, 2009 Wide
Aug 18, 2009
$32.7M
Rogue Pictures
All Critics (149) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (65) | Rotten (87) | DVD (16)
Extremely entertaining if you don't mind being morally corrupted at every juncture.
It's that first 30 minutes that ruin this movie.
Boy, words can not express how much I just loathe and detest this movie.
In the end, like virtually every other remake that has been released recently, it's polished and predictable.
A shockingly mundane disappointment taken on its own and a deeply misguided refraction of the original.
Do not go to this movie if you simply seek entertainment. If you're a sociologist tracking the decline of civilization over the past four decades, you're in for a night of solid research.
the 70s campiness has been stripped away entirely. Now, it just seems like a studio-level snuff film made for no other purpose than to make its audience feel woozy.
The remake deviates from its source material, giving something new for fans of the original to enjoy/moan about, and employ some imagination with a few of the killings.
A great argument for the continuing trend of recycling old films, taking an overblown horribly flawed cult classic and turning it in to an utterly stellar revenge picture...
As remakes go, Last House On The Left is at least a decent addition to the 1972 classic.
This version is a capably, confidently, and chillingly effective opportunity to place ourselves in the worst possible shoes for a length of time.
Grim, vengeful horror film well made -- but NOT for kids.
Remaking Last House on the Left seemed like a dubious proposition at best...yet somehow the new HOUSE works better than expected.
... during a wave of pointless and heartless retreads of older material, this brings a surprising improvement over the original.
... superior [to the original] in that it makes clear the conflicting justification and degradation of the retaliation, establishing a grayer level of morality.
Of the two incarnations of this tale, I've gotta say the remake is a bit more watchable ... but it's definitely not better.
What's most disappointing about the 2009 version is that it strips all the moral ambiguity from the 1972 original of the same name.
Unlike the Craven film, there's little of the audience implication that made these visions of violated innocence and draining retribution so troubling.
Bucolic class warfare, while toying sadistically with the wrongheaded notion that victims likewise harbor inner homicidal maniacs waiting to be set free. But undeniably super-scary, just when you thought that genre had been done to death, no pun.
Not quite as bad as I thought it was going to be. The original was downright awful.
Given my particular distaste for both remakes and rape-revenge movies, I was as surprised as anyone to find that this is a better horror movie than it probably should be.
The new version is tamer than the original but still dwells unpleasantly on the daughter's rape; this made me ill-disposed towards the ensuing scenes of violent payback.
This isn't scary, just plain exploitative.
I have very peculiar, mixed and sort of concerned feelings about this film. 2009's Friday the 13th was a remake that was worth doing because the original had almost no redeeming features about it. Although a cash in it was surprisingly good for what it was. However I must also applaud it for being greater than this
April 19, 2012
Super Reviewer
Interesting remake of Wes Craven's 1972 film, The Last House on the Left. I view Craven's original film as an exploitation horror classic that pushed the boundaries of good taste. With that said, this remake is still pretty disturbing and delivers some brutal scenes of revenge mayhem. I much preferred the original film
April 1, 2012
Super Reviewer
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