The Last House on the Left (2009)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I recently bought Arrow Video's 3-disc Blu-Ray of Wes Craven's ultimate classic, The Last House on the Left. I watched all three cuts in one day, so I decided to watch the remake afterward. I have seen this before, but it's been years. After re-watching it, I still very much prefer the original, but the revenge scenes in this one were gorier and better than the original. Garret Dillahunt (Fear the Walking Dead) made a very mean and more brutal Krug. Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) was cool to see as Francis, Krug's brother. Riki Lindhome was sexy but deadly as Sadie, Krug's girlfriend. The acting was better and more believable this time around. On his way to prison, Krug is broken free by Francis and Sadie. Meanwhile, Mari Collingwood head to their lakehouse for a little vacation. Mari wants to go out and spend time with her best friend, Paige. They make the mistake of asking Justin for some pot (Justin happens to be Krug's son) When they get to the hotel, Krug and his gang takes them hostage. While driving through the woods, the girls try to make a break for it, but they get caught again and slowly tortured. When Mari is beaten, raped, shot and left for dead, a storm is coming and Krug and his gang just happen to seek refuge from Mari's parents. The tension rises when John and Emma Collingwood find their daughter savagely beaten and learn that the people they took in are the ones who attacked her. Soon, the parents will become just as psychotic as the killers. Overall, it's a very good remake. It feels more realistic, but as I said, I still love the original better. It's only a movie. It's only a movie...only a movie. If you love Wes Craven's original classic, you'll love LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT!!!

This starts out better than the original--more character development, less time spent brutalizing, terrorizing, and degrading the victims, and a few other improvements I won't state to avoid giving TMI. The bad part is that the remake requires the characters to be stupid to make the movie longer. They took a good original plot and added every bad '80s overdone technique to extend the movie. So, it was as bad as the original but in a completely different, unoriginal way.

This movie is a remake of another movie, older and forgotten. The story revolves around three sadistic criminals who kill mercilessly and who decide to hide in a quiet middle-aged couple's vacation home, hours after they raped and tried to kill their daughter. The story is really good and the environment is tense from start to finish. The rape scene is one of the hardest to watch I've ever seen. However, from the middle, the film loses some interest because it becomes predictable and similar to other horror films like "You're Next", for example. What saves the film, at that moment, is the sympathy that we have already felt for the couple and their daughter. This connection allows the public's attention not to be scattered because we still want to see the bad guys punished. Garret Dillahunt is incredible in the role of the gang boss, managing to make his character an unbearably disgusting presence. Riki Lindhome and Aaron Paul were more restrained but no less competent. Sara Paxton was reasonable, but her role gradually becomes secondary, giving way to Tony Goldwyn and Monica Potter, a good duo who really did a great job. In the end, what we have is a good remake that, while not surprising, is able to entertain and cause some shivers.

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.