Zwei Mädchen im Teenageralter gehen zu einem Rockkonzert zum Geburtstag. Beim Versuch, Marihuana in der Stadt zu kaufen, werden sie von einer Bande psychotischer Sträflinge entführt und brut... Alles lesenZwei Mädchen im Teenageralter gehen zu einem Rockkonzert zum Geburtstag. Beim Versuch, Marihuana in der Stadt zu kaufen, werden sie von einer Bande psychotischer Sträflinge entführt und brutalisiert.Zwei Mädchen im Teenageralter gehen zu einem Rockkonzert zum Geburtstag. Beim Versuch, Marihuana in der Stadt zu kaufen, werden sie von einer Bande psychotischer Sträflinge entführt und brutalisiert.
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- 1 Nominierung insgesamt
- Mari Collingwood
- (as Sandra Cassell)
- Krug Stillo
- (as David A. Hess)
- Fred 'Weasel' Podowski
- (as Fred Lincoln)
- Dr. John Collingwood
- (as Gaylord St. James)
- Boy with Balloon
- (Nicht genannt)
- Ice Cream Store Clerk
- (Nicht genannt)
- Hippie Taunting Deputy
- (Nicht genannt)
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However, the film manages to maintain an intense atmosphere in its more serious moments, whether through Craven's direction or the image quality that gives it an amateur feel, as if we were witnessing real events on camera. The film's plot may not be particularly innovative, but it makes up for it with its scenes of violence, which at the time were, in a way, considered a novelty.
Although it has aged somewhat problematically in certain respects, "The Last House on the Left" still retains its disturbing power and deserves to be appreciated, especially for its lasting influence on the genre, serving as inspiration for countless other films.
Based on Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING, it tells the tale of a couple of young girls on their way to a concert who fall prey to a Manson-like family. Their rape-murders are avenged by a suddenly wised-up couple of parents who, in their restitution, find themselves as blood-bespattered and guilty as their prey.
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a grindhouse GUERNICA, an outcry over desensitization to violence that leaves you feeling shaken and desolated. It genuinely reupholsters the word "horror." For most, the clarity of Craven's intentions won't be enough to redeem the dire viciousness of what the director puts you through. For me, the ferocity of the movie has a cleansing, Artaudian pureness.
One question: Craven made this film and his masterpiece, THE HILLS HAVE EYES, the ultimate statement on the nuclear family in post-Woodstock, post-Altamont America. He then went on to make a load of occasionally mildly amusing but mostly godawful movies. What's the story?
Wes Craven and Sean Cunnigham (who worked together on this and then went ahead to make two of the most iconic horror/movie villains of all time respectively - Freddy Kruger and Jason Vorhees) may feel like they wanted more or rather be more diverse. Do movies in other genres - but I do think they can be happy with their career. And it started with a very controversial and evil little movie like this one.
The villains here are as despicable as they can get and the one moment where Wes claims they have a point of no return - well let's just say they are already past that way before that moment. So this is raw, it lacks sense in many respects and you can see there was not a big budget involved. But through it all you can feel the effect until today the movie had ... because of its success and because it was rough and did not really follow any rules
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- WissenswertesA mixture of red and blue food colouring mixed with caramel syrup was used for the fake blood, which contrary to most film "blood," actually looks real.
- PatzerMari breathes and moves when her parents find her body (the original intention was that she should still be alive at this point and would identify her attackers before dying).
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Estelle Collingwood: Mari tells me you're from Manhattan. What does your father do?
Phyllis Stone: Oh, my parents are in the iron and steal business.
Estelle Collingwood: Iron and steel both together? How unusual.
Phyllis Stone: Well, my mother irons and my father steals.
- Crazy CreditsOpening text: "The events you are about to witness are true. Names and locations have been changed to protect those individuals still living."
- Alternative VersionenThe 1982 British release on the Replay video label omitted the scene where the sheriff and the deputy try to hitch a ride on Ada's chicken wagon, and the end credits were missing - though the now familiar 'freeze frames' of the principal actors appear, no credits are superimposed over them, and the final song continues to play over a completely black screen. In terms of gore and violence, the print Replay used was uncut.
- VerbindungenEdited into Snuff (1977)
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- New York City, New York, USA(buying grass scene)
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- Budget
- 90.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 135 $