The Only House!!! (The Last House On The Left (DVD))

Member Name: blondgem

Product:	The Last House On The Left (DVD)
Date:	19/07/09 (29 review reads)
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When Mari and her family escape of vacation to a lakeside hourse, isolated on it's own in the midde of nowhere, you automatically know that it is going to be a horror movies as many horrors follow along this path. I have always wanted to go to a log cabin in the middle of nowhere, however due to many AMerican movies following the same kind of theme, it kind of puts you off as you know that when a movie starts like this, it's not really pleasant and you know something is going to happen.

Mari is an only child, 17 years of age and is at that stage in her life where she wants to go out start living her life as all kids at that age want to do. Her mother is slightly over protective, however her father is a little more lenient so when Mari wants to visit her friend Paige and take the car, her father gives in and her mother has no other alternative than to let her go to see her friend that she has not seen for a while.

When Mari arrives at her friend Paige's, she is serving in a shop and when a young, relatively attractive young lad asks for some cigarettes, she has to ask him for ID. In order to obtain the cigarette's he tells Paige that he has some good stuff at this home if she and her friend wished to tag along if she gave him cigarettes. As all young people are, gullible and wanting to try something out, they both accompany him to his chalet in which they all start to loosen up after smoking dope.

An hour or so later, Justin's dad comes home, with his brother and girlfriend, he has just escaped the law and is on the run from the police, some people would call these kind of people Rednecks and a little bit strange and get their kicks out of sadistic and horrific acts. When they come home, they are not sure what Juston has told them and they kidnap the girls taking them to an isolated wood. Mari plays it cools and adheres to what they say however Paige just wants to get away resulting in her being killed. Seeing her friend murdered, Mari knows she has to get away, however unsuccessfully leads to sexual abusive from her captors, a young Justin is forced by his family to watch what is happening to his new found friends.

Mari, a string swimmer eventually escapes into the water, with her kidnappers hot in pursuit and armed witha gun, they shoot into the water and eventually after 4 or 5 shots they hit her and automatically think that she is dead. Before escaping she managed to hit one of her enemies in the face with a rock braking his nose.

In the middle of nowhere, a storm is brewing and one perosn with a broken nose, the four need to seek somewhere to stay for the night. They stumble upon a house, which happens to be that of Mari's family. They take them in for the evening and Mari's dad being a doctor fixes the mans nose and stiches it up, they tell them that they should stay the night until the storm is finished and show them to the guesthouse.

WHen getting back to the main house, they are sitting together and hear a loud noise from the patio, going to investigate, they find their daughter barely conscious, half naked, knowking again the wall to raise attention. Taking her into their house, they are devasted to see there daughter in such a state, having been shot, her father managed to get the bullet out, however looking over his daughter he see marks on her legs and body which show a struggle and instantly knows that his daughter has been raped.

Emma, Mari's mother goes into the kitchen and find's Mari's necklace wrapped around a mug which Justin had used, Mari left the house wearing this and they both instantly know that her daughters attackers, were no other than those people they had kindly let stay for the evening. When someone hurts someone that you love so much, what lengths would you go to to try and put it right.

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I had been told that this film from the start originally had a good concept, however as it went on it started to get a little but stupid, however from my point of view, I can see where they are coming from and don't find the plot pointless at all. When someone hurts someone you love, you never know how you are going to react and this story tells of it all.

Although this is a horror, I wouldn't go that far to put it in that genre, however in some parts it is a little disturbing, but this was more towards the beginning of the film and not the end where you would expect it.

The acting wasn't fabulous, however it was better than some of the shambolical acting that you get in these kind of movies, and I did find myself glued to the screen, fighting to keep my eyes open to see what was goinf to happen, as majority of the movies that fall into this category these days apart from the SAW movies are quite poor and are bulled up when released to try and get viewer, which end up disappointed once they have watched the movie.

I wouldn't recommend this film, but I would not, not recommend it, i think if you like horror type films then it is worth a watch, if not, don't bother.

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