David Hess is a scary buttocks killer as the role, if you have a little girl she might get scared if she watches this! This film does deal with extremely explicit content, involving rape, molestation, urination, murder, torture, and violence, MIGHT want to watch this movie with your kids
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The Last House on the Left (1972)
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Not age appropriate for kids under 17, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 17. -
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Common Sense says
Amateurish bloodbath that became a cult-horror hit.
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What Parents Need to Know
About The Last House on the Left (1972)
Parents need to know that the savage violence in this film -- conveyed mainly in reaction shots and quick cutaways, but still intense -- includes close-range shooting, knifing/slashing, a castration-by-biting (you read that correctly), and an attack with a chainsaw. There is shower nudity (practically in the opening scene), and two women are terrorized at knifepoint, forced to strip and submit to rape and degrading acts. Drug use, though not really shown, is discussed frequently, and alcohol is enthusiastically consumed. The main drive of the plot is murder (committed by bereaved parents) as an act of revenge; law enforcement is not even discussed as an option, and police are depicted as bumblers anyway. A 2009 big-budget remake of this film drew more attention to the cheapie original.
Read our full review by Charles Cassady Jr.
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about why this crudely-made shocker became so popular, while some critics thought it the worst thing they'd ever seen. Was it simply a classic ad campaign ("Keep Telling Yourself...`It's Only a Movie. It's Only a Movie...'"). Or is filmmaker Wes Craven's mastery of visceral horror and psychological suspense actually present, under all the fuzzy sound, iffy acting, and low-budget camerawork? You could use this film to get horror-minded kids to watch a foreign-language art-movie classic, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, to compare-contrast. Which one is a stronger portrait of parental grief and vengeance?
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- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
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- Good role models
Wes... this is so you!
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
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- Good role models
Message
how can you say this movie has bad messages just because it's a revenge movie?? So your saying that if someone did that to your kids you wouldn't go that far to get them back??? I would go worse.
- I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
this is a good movie and not a good as the original.
- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive consumerism
Seen worse.
Psh, me and my son have seen worse. I really rented this for me and a few friends, but they all ditched me. So I watched with my 10 year old son instead so I would not be alone.
- I rate this title on for age 17 and give it
seen the first one
I will not see this remake. I am now 43 years old and I still remember the first make of this movie and how it horrified me. It still sticks with me as the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. I have seen a lot of horror flicks from my youth, and nothing bothers me to this day as that movie. It was so realistic,as if someone carried a movie camera around taping live action of murder, rape and all the other horrible things that happen in that movie. If you don't want to be later in your years (older) and still be affected by watching something so sick, don't go! I don't recommend anyone see it. And the people who made it should have their minds evaluated.
- I rate this title off for age 17 and give it
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa scary and im 26
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