The Last House on the Left (2009)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Brilliant and touching

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Could not get past seen of the Girl being raped by the Criminal group. I would say this is a very mature audience movie from what I saw.

This starts out better than the original--more character development, less time spent brutalizing, terrorizing, and degrading the victims, and a few other improvements I won't state to avoid giving TMI. The bad part is that the remake requires the characters to be stupid to make the movie longer. They took a good original plot and added every bad '80s overdone technique to extend the movie. So, it was as bad as the original but in a completely different, unoriginal way.

After a failed attempt at sitting through the original version - due to boredom, abysmal acting and overwhelming 70s camp - I approached this one with fairly low hopes. And for the first half, it seemed to confirm my fears. The script seemed shoddy and pointless, and the characters were so unrealistic it began to annoy me. But just as I was about to turn this one off too, Mari shows up at the house. And things take an eventful and scary turn. The second half of the film is well paced, well acted and very tense.On the whole, I'm glad I watched it - it's certainly a better class of horror remake. The cinematography is atmospheric, John Murphy's soundtrack is very good and only occasionally intrusive, and it knocks the original film out of the water. But with all that said, Aaron Paul's promising career may stand more of a chance if he quietly leaves this one off his show-reel.

The Last House on the Left (2009) Is a well made thriller that is worth a watch some time. Sara Paxton was really great in her role as Mary, she really showcases her mature acting. I thought all the actors in this film did a pretty great job as a matter of fact. The assailants here really convinced the audience of how sick and twisted they really were, I mean these people are messed up, as they should be. Yes, the rape scene and the violence overall is very graphic and realistic. The attack scene really did need to be both realistic and pretty graphic, in order to portray the feelings and emotions that the viewer should have, so I thought that was done well. The only scene I thought was too over the top as far as violence, was the scene with the garbage disposal, I thought that was kinda unnecessary. The parents in this movie really held their own and did very well in their roles! I loved how they portrayed their characters! I wasn't a huge fan of how the film ended, I wish it would've ended a little differently, really it's just the final minute I had some trouble with. 8/10 for the last house on the left.