Review of The Last House on the Left (2009) by Stephen L — 06 Oct 2010

Suffers from the cliches of modern horror. Grabbing someones shoulder suddenly to get their attention and having the music stop when something "scary" happens have been done so many time, The director couldn't have thought it was a good idea.

Do they really think we fall for that every time. the fathers voice is so monotone that it could have been affective if he only spoke that way at the end, but no, he talks like that the whole time. the bad guys are really stupid in this movie too, if they had just played it cool when they first met the two girls in the motel room, everything could have bee avoided.

Horror has become so bad these days that it's a wonder that they still make money. I have to give it credit though, I did really want to see the bad guys get there just desserts and the way that story unfolds is pretty good.

If only it were an original idea, if it were a remake, I could understand, but this is a remake of a remake. In both the original (the Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman) and the Remake by Wes Craven, the daughter is brutally killed as well as raped, but in this, the daughter survives.

We all feel that movies have gotten a lot more graphic in recent years, and the fact that they let the girl live in this movie is kind of insulting, we can handle horrible Human on Human Cruelty, but we can't handle the death of some boring girl? The didn't want to challenge us in this movie, they didn't want their audience to feel genuine sorrow and think about they just saw and how they felt about it, they tacked on a Hollywood ending and made the good guys win and the bad guys get their heads blown up in a microwave (okay, that was kinda cool).