The Last House on the Left Reviews
Suffice it to say the film concerns itself more with doing Craven justice than any Swedish poets, medieval or filmic.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 2, 2023
It’s well shot, well edited, the effects are stellar, the performances are solid, but it is a brutal film (for better or for worse) that not all will want to watch.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 21, 2023
While this remake or Craven's 1972 classic is by no means watered down, it takes a different approach to the premise that allows it to stand on its own.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020
Impossible to recommend but equally impossible to ignore.
| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020
Last House is slicker than Craven's 1970s drive-in classic original, but it doesn't hold back. It kicks you right in the face on the some of the sequences actually. Garrett Dillahunt is a chilling Krug as well.
| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Sep 2, 2020
It may not have the same impact as it had back in 1972, [but] has lost none of its power, its relevance. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2020
Dennis Iliadis does a facelift to the Craven film's squalid camp. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2020
Unlike the first version, there is no link here between the film's discomfort and its socio-historical context. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 24, 2020
Violence displayed for its own sake, without coherent dramatic development. [Full review in Spanish]
| Apr 24, 2020
Thirty-seven years ago, Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left was groundbreaking in its use of sadistic violence. Today, it's just brutal business as usual.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 24, 2020
The film's most unexpected strength, and the one most necessary for it's success, is the quality of acting on display.
| Apr 24, 2020
Aaron Paul as the uncle and Riki Lindhome as the female companion are good and creepy in a horror film kind of way, but it's Dillahunt that adds just the right mix of real life malice.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 24, 2020
This new House tries to sustain a grave, heavy sense of threat. It fails, through its villainy.
| Apr 24, 2020
[The] Last House On The Left is worth seeing, and it's worth enjoying. But after it costs you a few hours of sleep and a careful examination of your own moral compass, ask why this film wasn't just a little bit more.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2020
It's those small actor-y moments, along with some of Dennis Iliadis' directorial choices, that elevates Last House above so many other horror remakes.
| Apr 24, 2020
Director Dennis Iliadis polishes up Craven's template to a lethal shine.
| Apr 24, 2020
With a host of solid performances, this should have been better. The script doesn't bring any of Craven's ingenuity, opting to replace it with a ride on the shock express.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2019
The Last House on the Left is perhaps best seen as a reminder of why remakes of classic horror films almost always fail.
| Aug 8, 2017
The director, Dennis Iliadis, is exactly the right type of person to helm an upgrade of this manner: he is a genuine fan of the source.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2015
A fascinating and confrontational horror film that deals with terrors a lot more chilling than some dude swinging a machete.
| Aug 28, 2015