Last House on the Left (1972)

Director: Wes Craven  Starring: Sandra Cassel  David Hess  Lucy Grantham  
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Product Summary
Publisher: MGM
Format: DVD
UPC: 00027616878151
Buy.com Sku: 40170222
Item#: VVR5TW
Category Keywords: Essential Cinema  Murder  Psychos  Rape  Theatrical Release  Vengeance 
Rating: UR
 
 
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Pan and Scan (TV Format)
 
Bold, powerful and starkly realistic, this chilling cinematic debut of horror master Wes Craven (Scream) is a shocking journey into the heart of evil. Written and directed with "almost unbearable dramatic tension" (Chicago Sun-Times), The Last House On The Left will make you deadbolt your doors and frantically mutter: "It's only a movie...it's only a movie...it's only a movie!" Easy-going Mari Collingwood and her fun-loving friend Phyllis are on their way to a Bloodlust concert to celebrate Mary's 17th birthday when three escaped convicts kidnap and torture them. But Mari and Phyllis are fighters, and although they are dragged and beaten into unconsciousness, stuffed into a car trunk and driven into the woods for even more brutality, they are still alive...but for how long?
 
"Sheer and unexpected terror!"  Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
 


Editor's Note

Wes Craven's nightmarish odyssey of revenge helped to usher in a new era of graphic horror filmmaking in the early 1970s. Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960), THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a parent's worst nightmare come to terrifying life. Beautiful 17-year-olds Mari (Sandra Cassel) and Phyllis (Lucy Grantham) head into the city for a rock concert, but once there, they're kidnapped by three repulsive, sadistic escaped convicts led by Krug Stillo (a menacing David Hess). After the gang drives the girls into the woods, where they rape and murder them, the disheveled crew ends up at the home of none other than Mari's parents, John (Gaylord St. James) and Estelle (Cynthia Carr). When John discovers who has unknowingly walked into his home, he exacts a revenge that makes the convicts' actions seem tame by comparison.

Working on a shoestring budget and coaxing naturalistic performances out of his actors (with the exception of two bumbling law enforcement officers), Craven displays the talent that he would later develop on a grand scale with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and SCREAM. Certainly not for the fainthearted, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT remains one of the most visceral horror films ever made.

 

Features
Audio: English Dolby Mono
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Outtakes & Dailies
Forbidden Footage
Original Theatrical Trailer
Introduction By Wes Craven
Audio Commentary By The Director And Producer
Featurette
 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: MGM
Release Date: 9/11/2007
Running Time: 84 minutes
Original Release Date: 1972
Catalog ID: 1003674
UPC: 00027616878151
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English
Video: Color

Aspect Ratio
1.85:1

 
Cast & Crew
Fred J. Lincoln
Lucy Grantham
Sandra Cassel
David Hess
Wes Craven - Director
Victor Hurwitz - Director of Photography
Wes Craven - Editor
David Hess - Musical Score
Sean S. Cunningham, et al. - Producer
Wes Craven - Writer

 
Professional Reviews
Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Cruel and unflinching....It remains raw and unsettling." 12/01/2008 p.143

  
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