Wednesday 12 August 2015

The Last House on the Left (1972)



Two teenage girls head to the city for a concert, then afterward go looking for drugs, but they find a gang of escaped convicts who subject them to a night of torture and rape.

Highly influential low-budget slasher that replaces suspense with effective shocks and presents an uncanny cast of depraved characters.

Halliwell (no star): "Low-budget shocker, updating and debasing Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring."

Maltin*1/2: "Cheap, and looks it. Repellent but admittedly powerful and (for better or worse) influential horror shocker."

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