Sunday, September 5, 2010

Last House on The Left (1972)






This is the 1972 classic exploitation film by the great, Wes Craven... NOT some piece of shit remake that wanted to cash in on the well known title and then change major events that happened in the original.

Two teenagers are headed to a concert and looking for some weed, when they get caught up with Krug (David Hess) and his fellow prison escapees. Krug & Co (actually one of the original titles the movie was going to have) take the girls and are going to cross over into Canada with them; however, their car experiences some trouble and breaks down right around where one of the girls, Mari, lives. It is here, deep in the woods, where Krug and his buddies psychologically, physically, and sexually torture Mari and her friend, Phyllis. Rape and humiliation, that eventually leads to the death of the two girls.

The criminals make their way back up to the road and find shelter at Maris families house (at first not knowing it was hers). Mari's parents have not heard from her since she left for the concert and are very concerned. They are also unaware this group of thugs are the ones that brutally tortured, raped, and then killed their daughter and her friend.

Upon finding out, later in the film, the parents begin to loose their mind and go through a whole array of ways of killing Krug and his sadistic friends.

This is an amazing film and had such a huge impact on low budget cinema and drive-in flicks of the 1970's.

The remake is a piece of shit. As stated prior, major events were changed. The violence is over the top and there is not the psychological humiliation, that Mari and Phyllis have to go through in the original, that seems almost just as depraved as the physical violence.




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