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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Horror /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Dennis Iliadis,
Dennis Iliadis
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Actors:
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Garret Dillahunt,
Garret Dillahunt,
Sara Paxton,
Sara Paxton,
Joshua Cox,
Joshua Cox,
Riki Lindhome,
Riki Lindhome,
Usha Khan,
Usha Khan,
Michael Bowen,
Aaron Paul,
Monica Potter,
Tony Goldwyn,
Martha MacIsaac,
Spencer Treat Clark,
Michael Bowen,
Aaron Paul,
Monica Potter,
Tony Goldwyn,
Martha MacIsaac,
Spencer Treat Clark
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)327.5
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Plot Summary:
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After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang led through a prison escapee unknowingly finds recourse at a vacation harshly belonging to the parents of one-liner of the victims -- a mother and forefather who originate an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.
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The Last House on the Left
Claudia PuigSteer as clear as you possibly can from The Last House on the Left. Not only is it plodding and completely predictable, the carnage is rendered slowly and quasi-reverentially, making the whole brutal experience come off like torture porn. No doubt due to the increasingly graphic style of such horror movies as the Saw series, this Wes Craven remake has become even more grisly and sadistic. A drawn-out rape scene is especially heinous. Knifings and other mutilations are shot in almost slow motion to heighten their effect. The idea is to show just how far a pair of ordinary folks will go to exact revenge on a trio of psychopaths who have violated and shot their daughter. But they seem to almost enjoy the vengeance. Their daughter lies cli...
Last House on the Left, The
Claudia PuigSteer as clear as you possibly can from The Last House on the Left. Not only is it plodding and completely predictable, the carnage is rendered slowly and quasi-reverentially, making the whole brutal experience come off like torture porn. No doubt due to the increasingly graphic style of such horror movies as the Saw series, this Wes Craven remake has become even more grisly and sadistic. A drawn-out rape scene is especially heinous. Knifings and other mutilations are shot in almost slow motion to heighten their effect. The idea is to show just how far a pair of ordinary folks will go to exact revenge on a trio of psychopaths who have violated and shot their daughter. But they seem to almost enjoy the vengeance. Their daughter lies cli...
Last House on the Left, The
Mark Olsen The original version of The Last House on the Left -- the 1972 feature debut of horror master Wes Craven and a primal tour of rape, mayhem, murder and madness -- was one of those movies that was spoken about even decades later with an uncertain mix of fear and reverence.
Now given the Hollywood remake treatment, with Craven as producer, Greek-born Dennis Iliadis directing and a script credited to Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth, the remodeled House is a shockingly mundane disappointment taken on its own and a deeply misguided refraction of the original.
Where the original, which was loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, made quick work of setting its story in motion, the remake includes plenty of patently unnecessary back story....
Shockingly bad
Boring for most of the film. The movie is long and seems longer. The ending is riddiclous.
The girls are beaten and abused in a very disturbing and uncomfortable scene which in my opinion didnt need to be that graphic.
I spent most of the movie wondering where i recognised the actor who plays the dad - he is the 'baddie' in Ghost...in case you were wondering. :-)
Last House on the Left, The
Dennis HarveyThe low-budget grunginess that helped make Wes Craven's 1972 original "Last House on the Left" an unsettling memento of its era is wiped clean in Dennis Iliadis' remake -- one unnecessary on every level save the paramount commercial one. Tweaked in ways that seem less like updates than concessions to current genre conventions -- complete with more graphic gore and sexual violence -- this tale of very bad things happening to very nice people should clean up at the B.O. But if the original could be accused of having a real point (even a subtext), the uninspired redo has none whatsoever. Much-imitated even in its famous adline ("To avoid fainting, keep repeating, 'It's only a movie ... '"), Craven's film sparked unusual controversy (as well as long-term ...
Last House on the Left, The
Mark Olsen The original version of The Last House on the Left -- the 1972 feature debut of horror master Wes Craven and a primal tour of rape, mayhem, murder and madness -- was one of those movies that was spoken about even decades later with an uncertain mix of fear and reverence.
Now given the Hollywood remake treatment, with Craven as producer, Greek-born Dennis Iliadis directing and a script credited to Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth, the remodeled House is a shockingly mundane disappointment taken on its own and a deeply misguided refraction of the original.
Where the original, which was loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, made quick work of setting its story in motion, the remake includes plenty of patently unnecessary back story....
Last House on the Left, The
Dennis HarveyThe low-budget grunginess that helped make Wes Craven's 1972 original "Last House on the Left" an unsettling memento of its era is wiped clean in Dennis Iliadis' remake -- one unnecessary on every level save the paramount commercial one. Tweaked in ways that seem less like updates than concessions to current genre conventions -- complete with more graphic gore and sexual violence -- this tale of very bad things happening to very nice people should clean up at the B.O. But if the original could be accused of having a real point (even a subtext), the uninspired redo has none whatsoever. Much-imitated even in its famous adline ("To avoid fainting, keep repeating, 'It's only a movie ... '"), Craven's film sparked unusual controversy (as well as long-term ...
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