Rent The Last House on the Left (1972)
2.8 of 5 from 106 ratings
1h 21min
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- Synopsis:
- Easy-going Mari Collingwood (Sandra Peabody) and her fun-loving friend Phyllis (Lucy Grantham) are on their way to a Bloodlust concert to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday when three escaped convicts kidnap and torture them. But Mari and Phyllis are fighters, and although they are drugged and beaten into unconsciousness, stuffed into a car trunk and driven to the woods for even more brutality, they are still alive...but for how long?
- Actors:
- Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler, Richard Towers, Cynthia Carr, Ada Washington, Marshall Anker, Martin Kove, Ray Edwards, Jonathan Craven, Anthony J. Forcelli, Steve Miner
- Directors:
- Wes Craven
- Producers:
- Sean S. Cunningham
- Writers:
- Wes Craven, Ulla Isaksson
- Studio:
- Anchor Bay
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror, Thrillers
- Collections:
- 21 Reasons to Love, 21 Reasons to Love... Ingmar Bergman, All the Twos: 1972-2012, Films & TV by topic, Interviews, Spring On Screen: Films to Watch This Season, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 European Remakes, Top 10 Films of 1972, Top Films, Wes Craven Interview: Halloween Special Edition
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 18/06/2018
- Run Time:
- 84 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary with Bill Ackerman and Amanda Reyes
- Archival audio commentary with writer/director Wes Craven and producer Sean S. Cunningham Archival audio commentary with stars David Hess, Marc Sheffler and Fred Lincoln
- Archival introduction to the film by Wes Craven
- Still Standing: The Legacy of 'The Last House on the Left' - archival interview with Wes Craven Celluloid Crime of the Century- archival documentary featuring interviews with Wes Craven, Sean S. Cunningham, actors David Hess, Fred Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler and Martin Kove Scoring Last House - archival interview with actor/ composer David Hess
- It's Only a Movie: The Making of Last House on the Left - archival featurette
- Forbidden Footage - the cast and crew discuss the film's most controversial sequences
- Junior's Story - a brand new interview with actor Marc Sheffler
- Blood and Guts - a brand new interview with makeup artist Anne Paul
- The Road Leads to Terror - brand new featurette revisiting the film's original shooting locations Deleted Scene: "Mari Dying at the Lake"
- Extended Outtakes and Dailies, newly transferred in HD
- Trailers, TV Spot and Radio Spots
- Image Galleries
- The Craven Touch - brand new featurette bringing together interviews with a number of Wes Craven's collaborators including Sean S. Cunningham, composer Charles Bernstein, producer Peter Locke, cinematographer Mark Irwin and actress Amanda Wyss
- Early Days and "Night of Vengeance" - filmmaker Roy Frumkes remembers Wes Craven and Last House on the Left
- Tales That'll Tear Your Heart Out - unfinished short film by Wes Craven
- Q&A with Marc Sheffler from a 2017 screening of the film at The American Cinematheque
- Songs in the Key of Krug - never-before-seen footage from an archive interview with David Hess Krug Conquers England - archival featurette charting the theatrical tour of the first ever uncut screening of the film in the UK
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following:
- The Unrated Cut Version
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following:
- The 'Krug and Company' and R-Rated Cuts Version
- Special Features
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Reviews (3) of The Last House on the Left
A crude exploitation film, crudely made - The Last House on the Left review by RP
This was one of the so-called 'video nasties' and was refused a certificate in the UK until 2002, some 30 years after its release. So, is it really that bad?
It's bad all right - badly, cheaply made rubbish. While it might be claimed that it has historic value as a film that pushed the boundaries of on-screen violence, all that can honestly be said about it is that it is an early unwholesome exploitation film.
The story is crude: two girls head off for a rock concert in New York. While trying to score some grass, they make the mistake of approaching the baddies. Baddies rape them, drive them to the woods, rape them again, kill and dismember them. Having cleaned themselves up, the baddies then show up at a nearby house - which coincidentally happens to be the home of one of the girls. Parents wreak revenge. Add in a couple of unfunny 'comedy' cops and that's it.
It's a crude exploitation film, crudely made, with few if any redeeming features. 1/5 stars.
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Genuinely nasty - The Last House on the Left review by ER
Along with the The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), this was one of the few films that genuinely disturbed me on first watching on video in the early 80s. True, I was only 12 or so, but most horror films (which I loved, and still do) just sort of came and went. This one really freaked me out.
House is possibly the first example of "torture porn" in cinema. As the other reviewer has said, there's little if any artistic merit in it... it's not particularly well made, and the weird comedy elements really don't work. It's meant to shock.
But it does have that horribly real grainy quality of TCSM, and while I would never want to watch something like A Serbian Story on principle, I reluctantly find myself revisiting this every few years just to see if it still affects me. It does, and that in itself says something about the film's power.
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Even given credit for being old... - The Last House on the Left review by SP
... this film is poor. It's slow, badly shot, and just - dull. The central idea is strong and yes, I think the idea of a middle class couple being faced by a trio of ruthless criminals and turning out to be as bad as they are, if not worse. The final scene with the chainsaw is memorable, I suppose, as the main bad guy is gradually hunted down, despite putting furniture in the way until there's nothing left, but.... that's about it.
I watched it because I'm a bit of a film fan and had never seen it. But - I'm not glad that I did, frankly.
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