•Genre: Horror, Suspense/Thriller
•Running Time: 109 min.
•Director: Dennis Iliadis
•Writer: Carl Ellsworth, Wes Craven
•Release Date: 13 March 2009 (USA)
•Cast: Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Garret Dillahunt, Sara Paxton, Martha MacIsaac, Riki Lindhome, Spencer Treat Clark, Aaron Paul, Joshua Cox
The night she arrives at the remote Collingwood lakehouse, Mari and her friend are kidnapped by a prison escapee and his crew. Terrified and left for dead, Mari's only hope is to make it back to parents John and Emma. Unfortunately, her attackers unknowingly seek shelter at the one place she could be safe. And when her family learns the horrifying story, they will make three strangers curse the day they came to "The Last House on the Left."
Movie ReviewDeath’s Door
Three years ago the French director Alexandre Aja spun Wes Craven’s cannibal classic, “The Hills Have Eyes,” into horror-movie gold. The polishing of the Craven oeuvre — and the punishing of innocent families — continues with “The Last House on the Left,” a toned-down, tarted-up remake of that auteur’s infamously brutal 1972 debut film.
A study of operatic vengeance and dueling family values, this stylish renovation by Dennis Iliadis remains mostly true to the original story of a bereaved couple (Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter) whose teenage daughter (Sara Paxton) is attacked by a clan of on-the-lam sociopaths. Replacing the earlier movie’s more depraved sequences with sustained tension and truly unnerving editing, the director proves adept at managing mayhem in cramped spaces: a six-person struggle in a barreling S.U.V. is a small miracle of controlled chaos.
Working with the cinematographer Sharone Meir (who shot the marvelously oppressive “Mean Creek”), Mr. Iliadis alternates visceral violence — a knife slowly entering a girl’s quivering stomach, a garbage disposal chewing relentlessly on a man’s hand — with interludes of dreamy anxiety. And though I have never actually heard a skull exploding in a microwave, I suspect the movie’s sound designers deserve some kind of an award: thanks to them, the damage one can inflict with small appliances and a giant grudge is all too clear.
“The Last House on the Left” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Characters are raped, stabbed, shot, mangled and fed to labor-saving devices.
Credit : MREQ SITE
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