The Last House on the Left

If someone hurt someone you love, how far would you go to get revenge?
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  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 18, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2009
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Rating: 2/5 -- If you must, seek out the original to see nasty things happen to nasty people in a nasty film. Full Review
TheShiznit.co.uk
Sep 29, 2012
A study of operatic vengeance and dueling family values, this stylish renovation by Dennis Iliadis remains mostly true to the original story....The director proves adept at managing mayhem in cramped spaces...
New York Times
Mar 13, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- The narrative structure is ingenious and sexual assault is at least shown as having dramatic and human consequences of some sort, if only in the context of revenge. Wasn't the original movie enough? Full Review
Guardian
Jun 12, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- This clanging cover version believes in nothing, not even its own nihilism, and the horrors it portrays leave us colder, but not wiser.
Little White Lies
Jun 12, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- The cast bring a level of reality to this that's surprisingly impressive. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jun 12, 2009
A fascinating and confrontational horror film that deals with terrors a lot more chilling than some dude swinging a machete. Full Review
TheHorrorShow
Aug 28, 2015
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [The director] does fantastic things with more brutal sequences -- directing tense scenes as others might direct a tightly choreographed fight....THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a properly horrifying night out.
Box Office
Mar 11, 2009

Product Description:

Based on Wes Craven's landmark 1972 exploitation flick of the same name, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a brutal movie that exposes the darkest recesses of human depravity. The simple plot follows four criminals on the lam who encounter a pair of nubile female teens in a small mountain town. After murdering one and brutally raping the other and leaving her for dead, the cons seek refuge at a nearby summer house. The twist is that it's the very home inhabited by the parents of one of the victims. Upon learning that their house guests raped and tortured their 17-year-old daughter, the couple exact a revenge that arguably exceeds the excesses of the sociopathic gang.

When originally released in 1972, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT was a shock to the system. Never before had a film shown such images of human wickedness. Grainy and low budget, the original film played like a maniacal cackle from the seedy underbelly of an America nursing a brutal post-Aquarian hangover. Things play out a little differently, though, in 2009. For starters, the movie actually looks quite beautiful, and the story’s idyllic mountain setting is milked for all it's worth. The performances are noteworthy as well, with Garret Dillahunt more than convincing as Krug, the gang's swaggering leader; and Monica Potter and Tony Goldwyn portraying the distressed parents with an effective mix of panic, courage, and blind instinct. In an age marked by both increasingly ghastly films and a public discourse that actually debates the merits of institutional torture, a film like LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT really shouldn’t shock anyone. But in both the original and the remake, there’s a latent nihilism that permeates the world. The idea of a sense of lawlessness that cannot be understood or prevented, but only reacted against, is truly disquieting and makes this story unique in the annals of horror.

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  • Sales Rank: 13,051
  • UPC: 025192032387
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