The last house on the left

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Movie
German title The last house on the left
Original title The Last House on the Left
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Wes Craven
script Wes Craven
production Sean S. Cunningham
music David Hess
camera Victor Hurwitz
cut Wes Craven
occupation

The Last House on the Left (Original title: The Last House on the Left ) is an American Exploitation - Horror by Wes Craven from the year 1972nd

action

The two friends Mari Collingwood and Phyllis Stone want to go to a concert in New York . Despite Mari's parents expressing concerns about attending the concert, the two girls set off and leave the remote Collingwoods house. While driving, they hear a report on the radio about four escaped criminals who are believed to be in New York. However, the girls turn off the radio and pay no attention to the news.

Once in town, the two girls want to buy some marijuana from a young man . The alleged dealer leads the girlfriends into his apartment, which the escaped sex offenders Krug Stillo and Fred "Weasel" Podowski and their girlfriend Sadie use as a shelter. The young dealer turns out to be Krug Stillos' son Junior . Krug deliberately drove him into heroin addiction to make him compliant. Fred, Krug and Sadie threaten and beat the young girls and eventually rape Phyllis.

The next morning, the criminals lock the drugged girls in the trunk of their car and leave the city. When the car breaks down right in front of the Collingwoods' house, the criminals drive the girls into the woods. Mari realizes that she is in close proximity to her parents' house, but that it is impossible to escape. In the forest, the two friends are humiliated again and Mari is raped. When Phyllis takes the opportunity to escape during Krug's brief absence, she is followed by Fred and Sadie. The girl is stopped by the jug that suddenly emerges from the undergrowth and stabbed, gutted and left dead by the gang. During these events, Mari tries to convince Junior to come to her parents' house with her because her father can cure him of his heroin addiction. As a sign that Junior can trust her, Mari gives him a necklace with a pendant. However, Mari and Junior are caught fleeing by Phyllis' killers. As a punishment, Mari is raped by Krug and finally shot in a nearby lake. She survived but later dies from her injuries.

After this horrific deed, the gang sought refuge with the Collingwoods, unaware that they were Mari's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Collingwood are concerned about their daughter's disappearance and have already called the police. Despite the concern for their daughter, they offer the murderers, who disguise themselves as agents, accommodation for the night. Through photos, they recognize that they are in the parents' house of their last victim. Mari's mother discovers her daughter's chain on Junior's neck and the gang's bloody clothes and informs her husband of this. In the lake behind their house, the parents finally discover their daughter's body and swear revenge.

Mari's mother lures Fred into the woods with the promise of sex and bites off his penis, causing Fred to bleed to death. Meanwhile, Mari's father tries unsuccessfully to shoot Krug and Sadie. During a fight between the two men, the remorseful junior threatens his father with a pistol, but is driven to suicide by the latter. Now Mari's father succeeds in killing his daughter's murderer with a chainsaw. Sadie, the gang's last survivor, escapes the house and is killed with a knife by Mari's mother. After the bloody revenge of the Collingwoods, the police arrive.

background

The last house on the left , which opened in American cinemas on August 30, 1972, is one of the sub- genres of slasher films and rape-and-revenge films (Eng. "Rape and Revenge"). According to director Craven, the film loosely refers to Ingmar Bergman's Oscar-winning work The Jungfrauenquelle .

The last house on the left opened on October 19, 1973 in Germany , where it was also shown under the alternative titles Mondo brutale and Das Haus der Teuflischen Beasts . The original version of the film has been confiscated nationwide in Germany because of the glorification of violence (confiscation decision of the AG Tiergarten dated April 12, 2005, Az .: 350 Gs 1655/05). For a legally verified version, around eleven minutes had to be shortened , for a release issued by the FSK from the age of 16 around 17 minutes. The seizure was lifted at the end of October 2017 and the film was moved to indexing list A. On September 5, 2019, the Turbine Medien label, which released the film as a German-language HD premiere on Blu-ray and DVD in May 2012, announced on its Facebook page that the Federal Testing Agency for Media Harmful to Young Persons had removed the film from the list of media harmful to young people have deleted. In July 2020, a re-examination by the FSK resulted in an age rating from 18 years for the uncut version.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film was "four times" better than you'd expect and Wes Craven's directing kept the tension going.

The lexicon of international films gave a succinct verdict: "A disgusting brutality show."

Aftermath

In 2009, Wes Craven and Sean S. Cunningham produced a remake of the film, also called The Last House on the Left .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Let go of the carnage , article on Der Spiegel Online from May 14, 2009, accessed on July 11, 2012.
  2. ↑ The Last House on the Left in the Internet Movie Database (English) .
  3. ↑ See Michael Brashinsky: The Spring, Defiled. Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left, in Andrew Horton, Stuart Y. McDougal (Eds.): Play It Again, Sam. Retakes on Remakes, Berkeley 1998, pp. 162–171, quoted from Julia Koehne, Tilo Renz: And the Roads lead to Nowhere. The Source of Virgins and Last House on the Left as transformations , accessed on August 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b The last house on the left in the lexicon of international filmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used .
  5. ↑ The last house on the left in the online film database .
  6. ↑ Comparison Spio / JK - unchecked on Schnittberichte.com, accessed on August 9, 2012.
  7. ↑ Comparison of FSK 16 - unchecked on Schnittberichte.com, accessed on August 9, 2012.
  8. ↑ The last house on the left - seizure repealed on Schnittberichte.com, accessed on October 31, 2017.
  9. ↑ turbine. In: Facebook. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=15065
  11. ↑ "[...] a tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that's about four times as good as you'd expect. […] Wes Craven's direction never lets us out from under almost unbearable dramatic tension (except in some silly scenes involving a couple of dumb cops, who overact and seriously affect the plot's credibility). ”- Film review by Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun- Times, accessed August 9, 2012.
  12. ^ The Last House on the Left (2009). Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .