Showing posts with label The last house on the left. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The last house on the left. Show all posts

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Film Review: 'The Last House On The Left' (2009)


Review by: ChrisWard
Directed by: Denis Iliadis
Written by: Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth

When discussing movies and remakes in particular, the word ‘classic’ is often bandied around, usually in a sentence that goes along the lines of ‘They shouldn’t remake the classics’ or ‘They shouldn’t touch that – it’s a classic’. This may have been true in the past, with ‘classics’ like ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, ‘The Wicker Man’ and ‘The Omen getting a makeover, with varying results. ‘The Last House on the Left’ sort of gets away with it, because Wes Craven’s 1972 original was a very crude piece of filmmaking, and was more groundbreaking than classic.


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