The Last House on the Left
The Last House on the Left
R | 30 August 1972 (USA)
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On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Pluskylang

Great Film overall

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Comwayon

A Disappointing Continuation

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Bob

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Tweekums

To celebrate her seventeenth birthday Mari Collingwood plans to go to a concert in the city with her friend Phyllis Stone. On the way the radio reports that dangerous criminal, Krug Stillo, has escaped from jail along with his drug addict son, Junior; they are helped by psychotic Sadie and Fred "Weasel" Podowski. Before heading to the concert Mari and Phyllis decide to buy some cannabis; unfortunately the person they ask is Junior. Once they are in the flat with the criminals things soon get very bad. The next morning the two girls are drugged and bundled into the boot the thugs' car. They drive out into the country where, following a breakdown things get much worse. While this is going on Mari's parents are concerned that she is very late returning home so contact the police.This film may be over forty five years old but it still has the power to shock and disturb thanks to the fact that it feels quite real for the most part. The antagonists the sort of criminals we hear about on the news not supernatural fiends. The use of pleasant music and some ridiculously comic moments, usually involving two police officers, just serves to make the nasty bits seem even more disturbing. Once the girls are in the clutches of the criminals there is a constant sense of threat; sometimes the violence is physical and sometimes sexual. The film does rely on one very unlikely coincidence involving just where the criminals' car breaks down but that is needed for dramatic reasons. The final act, which relied on that coincidence, does go over the top somewhat but even this doesn't feel too out of place. The cast does an impressive job making their characters believable. Overall I'd say this is a must see for fans of classic horror films but it certainly won't be for everybody.

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baileygiannini

MOVIE REVIEWWes Craven has been and still is one of my favorite horror film writers and directors in the film industry. However, The Last House On The Last looked like he was in film school. Very amateur style and the one part that was great, was Wes's ability to tell a great story from his past literary writing experience. The film is dark and very serious. It lives up to its' R rating and I wonder at times how much they had to either cut out or tame down to avoid getting the X rating back them. It's not a horrible film by any means, but if you compare it to his other films, such: A Nightmare On Elm Street, Scream and The People Under The Stairs. Comparing Last House to his horror film in the 1980s, Shocker, Last House beats it by one hundred percent. If it was possible Shocker would get a half star from me. All in all Wes Craven's Last House On The Left does show that there was filmmaking talent inside of him. It was an amazing start for him. Lastly the cast wasn't really spectacular. It seems like the only way the acting was good, was that since this was Wes's first film both written and directed, Sean Cunningham probably had to help him out with the directing part a lot. THANKS FOR READING!!!!!!!!!

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Smoreni Zmaj

Thriller ?! For movie to be a thriller it must have plot, suspense, tension, mystery, something... This movie is linear, predictable, vulgar simple... but Craven was able to do something I never seen before - he made explicit and credible scenes of rape, torture and brutal violence boring, without any tension and without leaving any impression on viewer. Horror ?! The only scary thing in this movie is fact that it is scary stupid. Disgusting - yes, but there's no trace of horror or thriller. Acting and directing irresistibly reminds of low-budget porn. And scenes of nature followed by pleasant, even merrily music definitely don't contribute to tension, but departing this movie from genres it should represent even more.I didn't rate it 1/10 only because it was inspired by Bergman and because I did succeed to watch it till the end without my brain leaking through my ears.

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SnoopyStyle

It's Mari Collingwood's 17th birthday. She and her friend Phyllis Stone go to NYC for a concert. They try to buy some weed but are kidnapped and raped by a gang of criminals. They are stuff in the car trunk and driven to the woods near Mari's home. The girls are tortured and killed. The gang ends up coincidentally at the Collingwood home while the bumbling local cops struggle to track the gang down.This is definitely an exploitation film. I'm sure it was derided by the critics at the time. Some of those exploitation parts are actually the best parts of the movie. Being forced to pee in her pants is a compelling scene. The rest of the movie is amateurish, silly and simply bad. The comic stuff with the cops is groan-worthy. The coincidence of running into the Collingwood home is ridiculous and unnecessary. The gang could have gotten the address from Mari. The overall need to create a peaceful happy tone while counteracting it with the brutal violence does not come off well. Then there is the killing of the girls which splits the movie in two. The second half fades and the intensity never fully recovers. It's one of Wes Craven's first and it's at the level of a good student film.

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