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A remake of a movie based on a movie based on a ballad. Nice.
The original Last House on the Left has a really strange tone. It catches a lot of buzz for being really brutal when it really isn't all that bad. It has a lot of strange comic relief.
This one is produced by Craven, but he apparently had little to do with it. I actually think they're running out of 70s horror movies to remake.
I just hope the mother still bites off someone's dick.
I have a crush on Monica Potter.
There was a semi remake/ripoff called Chaos a few years back with Sly's son Sage Stallone in it. I hear it's pure shit, and that the director would cut wrestler style promos on people who gave it a bad review.
watched the original the other day. in the 70's i could see it as being controversial or brutal, but it was just okay overall for me. i guess things have been more extreme since this was made.
maybe if i started this flick at the beginning of my horror buffity lifespan i would have more appreciation for it. a lot of people have it in their top 10 of all time lists, i just dont see it making mine, not even close
one of my main problems was the soundtrack. if it would have been more ominous maybe the tone would have been set better, but instead it seemed too comical
anyways ill prob check out the remake after it hits dvd
FUCK PLATINUM DUNES
This isn't Platinum Dunes, it's some new company that Craven started. Platinum Dunes is working on Nightmare on Elm Street now.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
I pretty much agree with this completely. I came in expecting some seriously fucked up shit and being really bothered, and I came away feeling let down (sort of a perverse line of thinking...).Quote:
Originally Posted by D_N_G
This movie scarred my mother in her early twenties when she saw it at a drive-in. She sent me an e-mail when she saw the TV Spot for the remake going NOT AGAIN NOOOOOOOOO
Last I heard was that Rogue pictures was working with Platinum Dunes to make a bunch of remakes, including this one. That could be outdated info though. Either way, how hard is it to create a new plot for a horror movie? Its not like this has massive brand recognition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
I watched the original again too.
It was missing a minute or so, brutal yet I've seen worse.
Chaos is supposed to be ultra sick. Ebert got upset.
Last House on the Left crosses the line into gore porn territory IMO. The F13 remake was perfect for me in terms of gore; enough to make the violence brutal looking, but not overdone. I saw Last House on the Left about ten years ago and was completely unimpressed. Lots of silly rape and gore, nothing scary. Just repulsive.
But Ebert loves Last House on the Left. Go figure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korian
The original is awful. One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
I remember the director of Chaos being hilariously stupid and raving Uwe-style about how no one understood his genius and he was just too extreme for your face.
And it isn't the original either. I just watched The Virgin Spring and it is a considerably better movie than the wes craven thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giga Power
His new review for the remake sort of clarified that he liked it 30 years ago, but doesn't anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by adol
I just watched LHOTL and love it! I love that it came out in 72, before any of the other Slasher Classics, it's uncomfortable to watch, the killers seem normal at first, then go over the top, then feel bad about what they've done, make you sympathize with them, then get slaughtered by the family in Epic Revenge fashion... and all the while in the background is inappropriate, slap-stick, keystone cop comedy. There is no other movie on the planet like Last House on the Left.
Haven't seen the remake.
The slapstick cop part with the goofy soundtrack and the Cobra-kai sweep the leg dude deputy makes it a really strange watch.
I re watched the first and it wasn't as bad as I remembered. I bought this after not finishing it, but it bored me.