Last House On The Left

[Oats]

i liked at the end this "horror" flick as the credits rolled they played this happy fun-time music, that amused me, im easily amused

[movieman64]

I think when you consider the time period, (early 70's) it was pretty gory. I read an interview with Wes Craven were he said they used pig intestines for the special effects. I also think the psychological aspect, (abduction,confinement,murder) was pretty relevant to society's fears at that time, Manson murders etc...

As far as good or bad. It was OK, if you are a Wes Craven fan you should make a point to see it.

[MichaelMyers]

I liked the Keystone-esque Cops.

[tachii]

i thought it was a fairly good movie although i spit on your grave was much harsh and better recieved than last house on the left

[Sam The Egg]

Well, if nothing else it's the only 70's revenge horror pic to actually be GOOD (you know, by movie standards instead of geek-show standards). Also, it depends on what cut you get. If you get the good one, then you get to see them disembowel Phyllis, and Krug carves his name into Mari's chest (Which, for some reason, is just so awesome. It's probably one of my favorite villainous acts ever. Another great one is him yelling at his kid until he killed himself. Briliant.). As far as shocking endings go, horror movies USUALLY had happier endings. And if they didn't, it was more "monster comes back and/or kills hero in the end" type unhappy. This was a whole new type of unhappy. The killers didn't come back to life or kill the girls then the parents. The parents went nuts and maimed, electricuted, slashed, fellated, shot at, and castrated them, and ends at the exact second the weight of what they did hits them. It's nothing new now, but give them some credit, at least, because they didn't do it because it was expected of the genre or anything.

[hellfire1]

i saw the movie not too long ago, and given all the hype around it, was expecting a whole lot. "i spit on your grave" was more in your face, gratuitous violence, really aiming at just shocking the hell out of people. with "last house on the left", it's a bit more subtle, for lack of another word, but a whole lot more perverse. that scene that sam mentioned with krug yelling at his son to kill himself is really intense, and when he orders the girl to piss oh herself... really quite twisted. and the cheery music throughput the film just makes it even more twisted. so imo, it's a must see. not great, but a good movie nonetheless.

[Sam The Egg]

Plus, Last House has something no other revenge movie has: Krug. Krug was the shit. From what I've seen of them, revenge movies usually concentrate on the person getting the revenge so the villain usually is pretty basic. Rape, beat, kill, immasculation, death, credits. Wes actually made Krug a GREAT movie villain, one that will unfortunately always be overlooked because of the nature of the movie

[Sam The Egg]

on the new site, Ebert has a great review of the movie.

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that's about four times as good as you'd expect. There is a moment of such sheer and unexpected terror that it beats anything in the heart-in-the-mouth line since Alan Arkin jumped out of the darkness at Audrey Hepburn in WAIT UNTIL DARK.
I don't want to give the impression, however, that this is simply a good horror movie. It's horrifying, all right, but in ways that have nothing to do with the supernatural. It's the story of two suburban girls who go into the city for a rock concert, are kidnapped by a gang of sadistic escaped convicts and their sluttish girlfriend, and are raped and murdered. Then, in a coincidence even the killers find extreme, the gang ends up spending the night at the home of one of the girls' parents.
The parents accidentally find out the identities of the killers, because of a stolen locket and some blood-stained clothing in their baggage. Enraged, the father takes on the gang single-handedly and murders them. Does any of this sound familiar? Think for a moment. Setting aside the modern details, this is roughly the plot of Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING.
The story is also based on a true incident, we're told at the beginning of the movie, but I have my doubts; I think the producers may simply be trying one of those "only the names have been changed" capers. What does come through in LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a powerful narrative, told so directly and strongly that the audience (mostly in the mood for just another good old exploitation film) was rocked back on its psychic heels.
Wes Craven's direction never lets us out from under almost unbearable dramatic tension (except in some silly scenes involving a couple of dumb cops, who overact and seriously affect the plot's credibility). The acting is unmannered and É natural, I guess. There's no posturing. There's a good ear for dialogue and nuance. And there is evil in this movie. Not bloody escapism, or a thrill a minute, but a fully developed sense of the vicious natures of the killers. There is no glory in this violence. And Craven has written in a young member of the gang (again borrowed on Bergman's story) who sees the horror as fully as the victims do. This movie covers the same philosophical territory as Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS, and is more hard-nosed about it: Sure, a man's home is his castle, but who wants to be left with nothing but a castle and a lifetime memory of horror?

[IDrinkYourBlood]

i liked this movie, not as good as i spit on your grave which has to be the best exploitation movie ever

[FreddyC.Krueger]

Originally posted by KRUGERKID13
excellent movie and very underrated. Deserves far more credit then it receives.

Agreed. Another good movie is The Hills Have Eyes. It was kinda stupid in the ending. But still a decent film. A real classic. Remember throught all the years of Horror.