As the steam begins lifting skyward, the situation in The Last House on the Left lethargically begins to percolate. Before its dolorous subject matter boils over, Wes Craven introduces a colorful ...

This year's “The Last House on the Left” remakes Wes Craven's 1972 film of the same name, which was itself an unofficial remake of Ingmar Bergman's “The Virgin Spring” (1960). Craven took ...

Manson murders, Altamont, rock-star deaths, an unbending Nixon White House and an unending Vietnam War, among other factors, had by 1972 made the moment eerily right for a crudely effective story ...

The original test-of-taste by director Wes Craven, 1972's The Last House on the Left is a loose adaptation of The Virgin Spring. A gang of thugs brutally kill two teens and seek safety within the ...

Wes Craven’s 1972 debut The Last House On The Left was a kind of accidental horror milestone, a crude and often patently inept drive-in slot-plugger that nonetheless tapped into primal fears in ...