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Last House on the Left

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Last House on the Left (1972)

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Reviews Counted: 28

Fresh: 19

Rotten:9

Average Rating: 5.8/10

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: David Hess, Lucy Grantham, Sandra Cassel

Starring: David Hess, Lucy Grantham, Sandra Cassel

Director: Wes Craven

Director: Wes Craven

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Aug 27, 2002

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Wes Craven - Director
  • Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer
  • Featurette

Reviews for Last House on the Left

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12/02/07
Cole Smithey
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An ugly, disturbing, passionately conceived cult favorite, Last House on the Left is much more complex (albeit crudely made) than its controversial reputation would suggest.

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09/26/07
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It isn't artistically adroit, but if success in this genre is counted by squirms, it's a success.

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09/26/07
Dave Kehr
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Sartorially dated certainly, but still powerful, disturbing and raw.

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09/26/07
Empire Magazine
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Craven and company tap into something hot, dark and deep.

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07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
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if one is not disgusted enough to stop watching, one is left wishing that the movie would show more than it does

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06/14/07
Douglas Pratt
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It's disgusting and gripping at the same time.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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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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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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08/21/05
Emanuel Levy
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The party who wrote this sickening tripe and also directed the inept actors is Wes Craven.

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05/09/05
Howard Thompson
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04/22/05
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
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A estúpida tentativa de combinar cenas de violência realista com outras de humor pedestre anula o impacto do filme e nos leva a questionar a sanidade do jovem Craven.

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02/21/05
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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A tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that's about four times as good as you'd expect.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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Introduced a sadism that lurks beneath the surface of Craven's work to this day. It's not fun, as horror should be; it's amoral, and you leave it feeling sickened and dirty.

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06/07/04
Jake Euker
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06/26/03
Walter Chaw
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One of the true classics of modern horror cinema.

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06/18/03
Jamie Russell
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11/16/02
Nicolas Lacroix
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10/18/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)
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a supremely schizophrenic movie, alternating awkward scenes of bad comedy with gruesome and unsettling moments of violence that reach a nasty level of documentary realism

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09/03/02
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk
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I can't decide whether the film is more distasteful or more inept

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08/22/02
Ken Hanke
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