Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
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.
ivo-cobra8
This is Wes Craven's first movie off an psychological thriller from the 70's. I am doing originally Wes Craven marathon and I re watch some of his early work movies that I haven't seen before. So I start by this movie The Last House on the Left from the 70's, Wes first movie and I can say it was a good movie, but I don't like and I have a problems with it. This movie is the most disturbing rape/revenge movie I have ever seen. It is definitely not my favorite Wes Craven movie, it is not a classic or Wes Creven's masterpiece like some reviewers wrote that in the title, but it is really good to watch on it is own way. I want to make my top 10 Wes Craven favorite movies and some guy on YouTube said this is his favorite movie. Sadly it is not mine and I don't like it. There are some elements and things that I did I liked about this movie and I am going to start talking about the things that I like.Things I like: The acting in this movie is really well human acted from everyone. Sandra Peabody and Lucy Grantham acted really humanly realistic and they well portrayed their characters Mari and Phyllis. Lucy Grantham for me was incredible she humanly acted brilliant her character Phyllis Stone as the victim. She was very brave and a caring heroine in this movie, even tough she died on the end, I absolutely love her character.Sandra Peabody as Mari Collingwood was emotional and very caring girl with a heart that she left a remorse on the viewer. I was rooting for those two girls, than I would be rooting for the psychos which I did not!Wes Craven did an excellent job writing the script for this movie and the dialogues for the characters. He made a job well done directing for the first time.The rape scene in the woods in which Mari and Phyllis are naked and they had to make out was my favorite scene in which Phyllis is cheering Mari from crying and she try's to calming her down. That was old school acting and one of my favorite scenes in the movie.I love the scene in which Phyllis Stone character was forced to urinate her self that was very realistic performed, this is my favorite scene.Sandra Peabody acted her character humanly and she well acted perfectly as the victim Mari I love her.Everyone from the actors acted believable, especially the villains that have turned in to psychoses were amazing and brilliant.Martin Kove from The Karate Kid (1984) is in this movie and his character was likable. The cops in this movie were more caring about the missing girl than catching those escaped convicts. No one want's to drive two cops to Collingwood estate, which could happened in real life.Mari's parents report the missing of her daughter right away and they were making a birthday surprise party for her which it has a heart and soul in this movie.I liked the exacted revenge on the crooks by the end of the movie: John set's booby-trap's on the crocks. I love how John kills with a chainsaw Krug - - bad-ass scene I like it.David A. Hess, Fred Lincoln and Jeramie Rain as the villain's did and excellent job portraying their characters and I love them so much in this movie. This movie is fast paced, short at 1 hr and 24 Min's. Is not boring or over long it is entertaining and I have enjoyed watching the end of the film. Those are the elements I loved in this movie.Things I don't like in this movie and they are unnecessary: I don't like the rape scenes in this movie they are disturbing. I don't like the torture on those two girls. Sadie and Weasel stabbing and cutting Phyllis arm was horrible and disturbing.No one mentioned Phyllis Stone by the end of the movie not even the psychos or Mari's parents, she was forgotten that shouldn't have been!I hated the scene in the river in which Krug is keep firing his gun on a poor Mari I hated that scene! The punishment and the death scenes on the three villains exacting from Mari's parents were awful! They could have been executed way better. The booby traps could have exact way better in this movie.This movie is terrible shoot with the camera, even for the 70's horror film the picture quality were terrible. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Carrie movies are way better shot with the camera than this low budget film is.I hated Texas country songs and I hated the humor putting in this movie.I can only give this movie a 6/10 I can not give this movie a higher rating, because the movie wasn't that good. The rape and stabbing scenes are scary, disturbing and very terrifying.R.I.P. - Wes Craven (1939 - 2015) I really miss you and thank you for all the Freddy movies, thank you for all horror franchise and movies. Thank you for all your work Wes. I love you so much I wish you could done more horror movies, I really love them.The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation horror film written, edited, and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Sean S. Cunningham.6/10 Grade: C Studio: Hallmark Releasing Starring: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David A. Hess, Fred Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler, Cynthia Carr, Gaylord St. James, Marshall Anker, Martin Kove, Ada Washington Director: Wes Craven Producer: Sean S. Cunningham Writer: Wes Craven Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 24 Mins. Budget: $90.000 Box Office: $10,000,000
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.
helloallu
hahahahahahhaha......they killed a priest and 2 nuns....LOL!...what could be worse?..........".....by an animal-like woman...."...hahahahaa!....what exactly does a woman have to do to qualify as being "animal-like?"...bark like a dog?....hahaha....this is so hokey.....In the scene where Phyllis's hand sticks out between Weasel and Sadie and eventually falls to the ground, its obvious that whoever is attached to the hand is still alive because the fingers move....you'd think Wes craven would have caught that before putting it in the film......another thing too....if you were a woman and a man just killed your daughter, would you allow him to put his penis in your mouth?....i don't think so.......Also, just exactly what did the doctor hope to accomplish by stringing wire outside the bedroom doors and smearing shaving cream all over the floor?.....so the killers would fall down....woop-tee-do...Seems like a lot of work to go to for nothing...all that would do is make the killers MADDER....It didn't accomplish one thing.....Also if the killers were murderers who escaped prison, every law enforcement official in the country would be looking for them...that being the case, why would they waste all this time torturing and killing a couple of teenage bimbos?...What would be the point?...i think in real life, the killers would either be hiding or trying desperately to get out of the country.....Lastly, why were there so many movies made in the 70s like this one, which portray the police as stupid, bumbling, clumsy, redneck, keystone-type cops?..is that really how people saw law enforcement as being back then?
