Sartorially dated certainly, but still powerful, disturbing and raw.
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09/26/07
Last House on the Left (1972)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 19 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 84 mins
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 terrifying life. Beautiful 17-year-olds Mari... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: David Hess, Lucy Grantham, Sandra Cassel
Director: Wes Craven
Reviews
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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.
02/09/06
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The film, to its credit, details both the initial acts of violation and the revenge that ensues as similarly de-humanising and reprehensible.
04/17/01
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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.
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.
09/26/07
The party who wrote this sickening tripe and also directed the inept actors is Wes Craven.
05/09/05
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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.
02/21/05
A tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that's about four times as good as you'd expect.
10/23/04
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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.
06/07/04
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
09/03/02
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