Yes,
Rev, check out
LAST HOUSE and decide for yourself. Consider it an education. Anyone who can claim a film featuring humiliation, sexual assault, and murder as a "favorite" has developed a thick skin.
Big
on LAST HOUSE.
It was an R-rated, 82 min cut, so some of the "disturbing" material was cut out. Not that it would have helped. The overwhelming impression I got was that it was just a
bad film, which of course can be a
good thing, but in this case it was just bad and unpleasant instead of bad and fun. I give Craven a bit of a break because it was his first film and he's improved, but this showed almost no directorial talent, in my view. There was very little sense of suspense; the movie never really gave us the false hope that the girls might escape. The chase through the woods was actually rather boring and predictable.
The awful attempts at comic relief with the bungling country cops were even more painful than the humiliation scenes.
Just really awful. On the level of LOVE CAMP 7. I wouldn't recommend this even for it's "historical value", whatever that might be.