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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
When I looked at the title, I thought it was going to be a excellent Saturday night entertainment of pure horror. Instead it's a unsettling and disturbing revenge movie. The story is a young girl goes out with her friend only to be taken by a group of strangers, they beat and abuse leaving them for dead. Then for the night, the group seek shelter on a house that is the only one around. But when the family realise that they were the ones that hurt their daughter, they plan a brutal and bloody revenge on them all. It's up there with Eden Lake (a film I can never see again as it seriously damaged me after seeing it) and The Strangers (ditto) for being a truely horrid ride. It has a slow start but once it gets going, you want it to have a sort of happy ending. I warn you if you want to see this, it's not for the faint hearted and people who don't like blood or disturbing movies. But if you can stomach it, check it out. It's lead with a little known cast but they play their parts well, it has also a great picture and sound on Blu-Ray.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The title The Last House On The Left has particular resonance for British horror fans. Until very recently Wes Craven's cult classic 1972 original remained unavailable in it's uncut form having been one of the many films to fall victim of the notorious video nasties debacle of the 1980s. Craven's Last House On The Left - 3 Disc Ultimate Edition (Uncut) [1972] [DVD] was a film that divided critical opinion with some critics praising it's unflinching analysis and depiction of violence and it's results (inspired by Craven's disgust at the sanitised news reports of real life violence in Vietnam), while others saw it as merely low budget exploitation trash.
Loosely inspired by Ingmar Bergman's 1960 arthouse classic The Virgin Spring [1960] [DVD] (itself based on a 13th century Swedish ballad named Töres dotter i Wänge) the film tells the story of two young girls who are abducted, raped and murdered by a gang who are on the run. When their car breaks down the gang unwittingly seek refuge at a house belonging to the parents of one of their victims. As the narrative progresses the parents, after discovering their daughter's fate, take their brutal revenge.
With the spate of horror remakes that have been hitting our screens in recent years it is not surprising that story of The Last House On The Left is on our screens once again, what is surprising is that in many ways it surpasses the original - although once again such confrontational material has sharply divided opinion.
Produced by Wes Craven and directed by Dennis Iliadis, the remake takes the key elements of the original and effectively reworks them to startling effect. Rather than follow the route of other recent horror remakes by using flashy music video style editing The Last House On The Left takes it's time to build up it's characters, also favouring long takes to build suspense rather than relying on jump cuts. The ever reliable John Murphy contributes an excellent score, and the cast all turn in performances of a quality that is completely unexpected in a horror remake.
The narrative has been changed in a number of ways that reduce the sheer nihilistic bleakness of the original, but the changes do not detract from the overall shocking effect - although a short postscript involving a microwave does threaten to destabilise the taught narrative that has preceeded it.
It should be emphasised that this film, like the original, is not meant to entertain but to raise questions about our individual capacity for violence and the thin veil of respectability and control that prevents the vast majority of us from acting on our worse impulses. The film's challenge (and tagline), "If bad people hurt someone you love, how far would you go to hurt them back?" is one that each viewer must confront when viewing this disturbing and thought provoking film.
Loosely inspired by Ingmar Bergman's 1960 arthouse classic The Virgin Spring [1960] [DVD] (itself based on a 13th century Swedish ballad named Töres dotter i Wänge) the film tells the story of two young girls who are abducted, raped and murdered by a gang who are on the run. When their car breaks down the gang unwittingly seek refuge at a house belonging to the parents of one of their victims. As the narrative progresses the parents, after discovering their daughter's fate, take their brutal revenge.
With the spate of horror remakes that have been hitting our screens in recent years it is not surprising that story of The Last House On The Left is on our screens once again, what is surprising is that in many ways it surpasses the original - although once again such confrontational material has sharply divided opinion.
Produced by Wes Craven and directed by Dennis Iliadis, the remake takes the key elements of the original and effectively reworks them to startling effect. Rather than follow the route of other recent horror remakes by using flashy music video style editing The Last House On The Left takes it's time to build up it's characters, also favouring long takes to build suspense rather than relying on jump cuts. The ever reliable John Murphy contributes an excellent score, and the cast all turn in performances of a quality that is completely unexpected in a horror remake.
The narrative has been changed in a number of ways that reduce the sheer nihilistic bleakness of the original, but the changes do not detract from the overall shocking effect - although a short postscript involving a microwave does threaten to destabilise the taught narrative that has preceeded it.
It should be emphasised that this film, like the original, is not meant to entertain but to raise questions about our individual capacity for violence and the thin veil of respectability and control that prevents the vast majority of us from acting on our worse impulses. The film's challenge (and tagline), "If bad people hurt someone you love, how far would you go to hurt them back?" is one that each viewer must confront when viewing this disturbing and thought provoking film.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a remake of the previously banned horror classic from the 70s with the same name which was from masters of the genre Wes Craven (SCREAM, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET) and Sean Cunningham (FRIDAY THE 13TH). It begins when a family visit their summer home and on the first evening, the daughter Mary goes to town to visit her friend Paige. The girls meet a guy named Justin who invites them to his motel room to get high. When they get there they meet his father and his friends who are ruthless murderers on the run from the police. To keep them quiet they torture them in the woods.
I wasn't much of a fan of the original as it had a pretty low budget, bad acting and a terrible script so I watched this with low expectations and was surprised that this was actually a really good horror. For a start, I had literally no idea where this film was going as within about 45 minutes, the brutal torture scenes appeared to be over and I really did wonder what else they could do. Fortunately this was just where the film begins as from this point it got very good indeed (I won't spoil it for anyone who is yet to see it). The story was very well written with a great script and a lot of surprising twists. The special effects were very realistic, making this quite disturbing to watch at certain points. The acting was impressive from the whole cast - the family in particular were all very believable and played their parts well. This is without a doubt one of the best horror remakes I have seen - everything about it is just so well done and had me sitting on the edge of seat from start to finish. A recommended viewing for any horror fan - a solid 4 star rating.
I wasn't much of a fan of the original as it had a pretty low budget, bad acting and a terrible script so I watched this with low expectations and was surprised that this was actually a really good horror. For a start, I had literally no idea where this film was going as within about 45 minutes, the brutal torture scenes appeared to be over and I really did wonder what else they could do. Fortunately this was just where the film begins as from this point it got very good indeed (I won't spoil it for anyone who is yet to see it). The story was very well written with a great script and a lot of surprising twists. The special effects were very realistic, making this quite disturbing to watch at certain points. The acting was impressive from the whole cast - the family in particular were all very believable and played their parts well. This is without a doubt one of the best horror remakes I have seen - everything about it is just so well done and had me sitting on the edge of seat from start to finish. A recommended viewing for any horror fan - a solid 4 star rating.
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"..GREAT REMAKE.."
The original movie was so long ago, it may have been controversial at the time but is so dated now and is practicly garbage! Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Drury
Good one to watch
I thought is was well put together my Wife found it very hard to sleep after warching the film.Well done.
Published 1 month ago by Geoff
atmosphere is a thunder storm,
The original Last House on the Left was a mess. The bungling hillbilly patrolmen didn't work. Parts of it were well filmed. Read more
Published 1 month ago by nelson viper
Horrible movie, not horror movie
Shocking, traumatising film and makes Goodfellas look like a kids cartoon. It's not a horror movie; it is just a shockingly violent movie from end to end. Read more
Published 2 months ago by R. Whitlock
a must see
i expected a standard horror movie but that's not what i got. this film is not as the name suggests. Read more
Published 2 months ago by ANGIE
Brillian thriller with, as if ending
This film is good to watch, I did feel sorry for all the right characters and wanted the bad guys to get what they deserved, it's a brill revenge movie but it was the ending that... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Carlyflower
brutal
this film is absolutely brutal 2 put it nicely. DONT WATCH IT.
GAVE ME NIGHTMARES 4 WEEKS ON END. Read more
GAVE ME NIGHTMARES 4 WEEKS ON END. Read more
Published 2 months ago by c .boyle
Großartig!
Sehr gut! Schnellste Lieferung (Anfang der Woche bestellt, noch am Freitag geliefert bekommen!
Info zu den Sprachen: Auch in DEUTSCH!
Info zu den Sprachen: Auch in DEUTSCH!
Published 3 months ago by Manuel Weseslintner
Not as disturbing as I had hoped for
I haven't seen the original of this re-make, so I can't comment on whether it's an improvement. I did read quite a few reviews of this movie, and on the basis of this, I was... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Eoin McLove
A glossy remake that should be viewed on its own merits
As a fan of Wes Craven, and someone who's seen the Original that this is based on, I was interested to see what they'd done with it. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Benminx
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