The Last House on the Left (2009)

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Crappy film

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

There are basically two acts in the film and both of them are overlong. The violence feels unnecessary cruel and the payoff is not particularly fulfilling.But it's a well crafted movie. There are many sequences with nail biting tension. Acting is particularly impressive across the board.Not for the fain of heart.

PROS: One thing that was well realized was the build up of tension. It almost felt like the film was happening in real time, which gave that extra bit of paranoia to the project. When the movie unraveled it spiraled out of control giving a sort of hypnotic attractiveness. It lured you in and kept you hyper focused on each event, which allowed for the extreme scenes to have no limits, giving it that great tension. I genuinely don't believe that this could've been achieved if the acting wasn't as good as it was. Each character had depth, had more to them than just "a father" "a rapist" "a victim". These were real people, and that came across through the screen. The Final thing that I appreciated was the feel of the movie. It's hard to explain, but the tone of the scene, the weather, and the timing really vamped up the movies importance. To top it all off, the film had a very classic horror vibe which was terrific.CONS: The biggest thing that bothered me was the resolution. It not only felt redundant, but it was unbelievable and not plausible by any means.www.chorror.com

After kidnapping, tormenting, raping and leaving their daughter for dead, her parents find the group of strangers seeking shelter at their house from a storm as the ones responsible and set out to avenge the misdeeds against their family.Even though it's miles better than the original, that's not saying much as this was pretty troubling. Among the problems here is the fact that the first half is just criminally boring, as there's not much of anything that keeps the interest or really gets involved with what happened throughout here. The early build-up of them going around town and meeting up with her friend that introduces them to the group isn't all that interesting and really feels like a contrivance to introduce them to the group while really holding this one down from its interesting parts here. Likewise, the set-up of the group happening upon the house takes way too long to fulfill here as their hospitality is certainly welcomed but it drags way past helpful here as the discovery comes rather late here due to the incessant nature of these scenes, while the final brawl is slightly too underwhelming here with the father not getting full revenge by showing him to be clearly outmatched and needing to be rescued in order to be saved which just is really that satisfying thematically. This one also tends to get overplayed here with a protracted stalking scene as them going after the group really makes the film overlong at the final resolution rather than actually building suspense here, and there's a lot of build-up here that doesn't really offer up much. As well, this section highlights another big problem here in that this was significantly down-played from the original by completely ignoring the dirty, grimy feel that should've been a part of this one from the very beginning and is instead way too clean and sanitized, one of the more important and certainly worthwhile elements of the original that's completely missing here which really renders a lot of the problems here along with the uncomfortable feeling in the rape scenes that's really unsettling to watch. While these really hold this one down the few positive parts do stick out with the film's best part being the additional energy the film gets here as it did manage to get a little better as it went along by really picking up steam with the confrontation in the woods leading to the actual encounter here from the tense car ride through the woods, the fun crashing sequence and the resulting chases through the woods which sets up that whole sequence and eventual escape. Likewise, there's a lot of fun here with the actual revenge being taken out against the group as these vicious, brutal and violent brawls are quite cathartic and really important at making the revenge seem logical and well-thought-out here as the action throughout the house, from the bloody kitchen encounter to the chasing in the guest-house that includes the gunfight alongside the rather fine encounter in the bathroom all leading nicely into the big, knockdown brawl for its final resolution, there's some really enjoyable action scenes throughout here that makes this one quite fun. While it wasn't terrible, it wasn't an entertaining film either.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Extreme Graphic Language, a Rape Scene, Full Nudity and drug use.

I haven't seen this in a couple years, so my memory of it was a little fuzzy. Now I know that it was far better than I expected. A huge improvement to the original was a consistently dark atmosphere. In Wes Craven's version, it felt silly at times, namely the scenes with the cops and the whole "Willow" stuff. This remake was also a lot more intense and suspenseful, and the danger felt a lot more real. The ending may somewhat blunt the movie's overall effect, but, hey, how often do you get that sort of ending in a horror movie? The rape scene was very difficult to sit through because it was so long and realistic, which is my only real complaint. If you had to choose to watch the original or the remake, I would go with the remake because it's a lot more thrilling, and it's far superior to Wes Craven's version overall.