When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.
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6.6 is pretty low for such a good movie. Guess everyone has different taste but still, i love this movie !!!!
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
It was pretty obvious from the beginning that the girl called Josh who looks like a boy was going to rat them all out and you could tell that all four hoodlums were going to die without the Mom and Dad receiving so much as a scratch.I also feel that this movie could be shorter. The beginning seems unnecessarily long and leaves you thinking "When do we get to the good stuff?" I praise this movie for having a simple plot. The bad guys rape a girl, her parents take brutal revenge. The characters were simple people and you can understand who they were which is a personal preference of mine. Some people look for really deep complicated characters but you won't find any in this movie.
Last House on the Left (2009): Dir: Dennis Iliadis / Cast: Sara Paxton, Martha MacIsaac, Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Spencer Treat Clark: Violent recap of the 1972 horror film about bad decisions gone worse. Two teenage girls are abducted, raped and left for dead and the guilty make the mistake of arriving at the parents of one of the victims. This results in graphic revenge when their daughter appears. Realistic setup becomes predictable and way too gruesome. Directed by Dennis Iliadis with decent photography. Unlike the original film, the cast are subdued by cardboard. Sara Paxton and Martha MacIsaac play the victims while Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter play the vengeful parents. The problem here is standard Hollywood interference where the realism and controversy of the original is compromised. For example, Paxton surviving is the studio decision to leave somewhat a happy ending. In the original the ending was not so happy for Lucy Grantham and Sandra Cassel whose deaths are way too disturbing but at least remained credible for the plot. Then we have the disturbed son of the villains turning good and actually surviving. In the original this kid was so dominated by his cruel father that he was forced to shoot himself. The son is played by Spencer Treat Clark and the role was much better in the original film. Perhaps somebody should do the same with this celebrated violence. Score: 4 / 10