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No squeals of anticipated delight from me. The trailer actually looked a little vanilla.
Why do you think this film needs a remake? I vaguely remember the original when it first came out. Doing a remake of this movie would be like doing a remake of Jaws.
Hm, interesting. The first left much to be desired, and this remake is being produced by Wes Craven, who wrote and directed the first one. So different from other remakes, it has the same brain behind it. It would be interesting to see what 35 years of experience does for the film. I have little doubt it will be at least a little better than the first time around. Maybe Wes has been wanting to remake it for awhile. I would probably want to remake one of my first if I liked the story but felt it could have been better.
Remake or not, this is going to be terrible, if only because it's Wes Craven is involved. His heart hasn't been in his work for a long time and the fact that he's willing to remake one of the few things he's done right in his career just goes to show how jaded he really is. That aside, I think it'd be impossible to remake LHOTL. If I were more optomistic, I would say the remake could still be an entertaining flick but even then, it could never recapture the ugliness that put the original on the map in the first place.
I'm looking forward to it. I agree with Zack here. This is one of those rare cases when the original movie isn't that good to begin with and a remake *could work*.
Comparing Last House on The Left to Jaws is just crazy. Jaws was a quality film. LHOTL was a trashy mess of a movie. I do enjoy it, but it is no masterpiece. Far from it, actually.
(edit) On second thought, the remake looks pretty damn bad. It looks way too "clean" to convery any real grittiness or horror. The original was flawed and pretty mediocre, but it had a raw style that made it seem real. This just looks like your average thriller. I think I'll pass until I can rent it.
Hey Julio, I read a an early screener review that said the film was insanely violent and brutal. I heard the film almost got the NC-17 rating. The early review was very positive.
Phil, how can you compare the original LHOTL to Jaws? That's like comparing Steven Speilberg to Wes Craven... oh, wait a second. Truth be told, the original LHOTL was very poorly made. Not only did it have a very small budget, but Wes wasn't the most experienced director at the point in his career.
Just to be clear, I LIKED the original. The film had a lot of heart and the penis biting scene was horrifying.
I totally agree the original was sloppy as hell. The budget was peanuts and the production value was godawful, even compared to other low budget horror movies of the 70s. Still, all that ended up contributing, intentionally or not, to what has become the film's bread and butter. That's the problem with some of these old flicks. Everything that makes them what they are gets lost in translation when they're redone with bigger budgets. In the end, you get something that's completely different in all the ways that matter and when that's the case, really... why call it Last House on the Left?
My grandmother, god rest her soul, was a right old mess when she hit old age. She was as deaf as a plank, she always stank of stale piss and boiled sweets and had the memory of a goldfish. But if Wes Craven came knocking on my door to tell me that he could make her young again, better, more agile and less piss I would say "No Wes Craven, you can't remake my Gran. She serves as an inspiration to her children and her children's children and will give them the inspiration they require to be better Grandparents themselves but still retaining some of the magic that made her so good in the first place." And hopefully then Wes Craven would piss off and let new Grandmothers come along and have their chance.
The first one was utter garbage, IMO, so I'm psyched about a remake. This is one of the few films I prayed for a remake of for years.
And since Wes Craven isn't directing (the man couldn't direct raffic) the chances are this is gonna be pretty decent.
And it looks like they've taken out the subplot with the bumbling Dukes of Hazards cops which was probably the most misplaced comic relief in horror movie history.
Btw. let's not forget that Last House on the Left is itself a remake of The Virgin Spring by Bergman, so one can't really call foul play on behalf of Craven's "original"...
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Btw. let's not forget that Last House on the Left is itself a remake of The Virgin Spring by Bergman, so one can't really call foul play on behalf of Craven's "original"...
Wah??? I have to admit, the plots match up but I find it extremely hard to believe an Ingmar Bergman remake could just go unnoticed for over 30 years. This sorta thing seems like it should be common knowledge yet I've never heard anyone mention it before just now. Nevertheless, I'll have to check this out.
Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, (The Virgin Spring) is the sombre, powerful fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge.
Wah??? I have to admit, the plots match up but I find it extremely hard to believe an Ingmar Bergman remake could just go unnoticed for over 30 years. This sorta thing seems like it should be common knowledge yet I've never heard anyone mention it before just now. Nevertheless, I'll have to check this out.
It's true enough but yeah a little known fact. But Wes Craven has on numerous occassions owned up to it, saying Bergman's film was direct inspiration to his film.
He doesn't give him credit though, but to most film historians it's considerd a remake in the same vein of The Magnificent Seven is the 7 Samurai or Last Man Standing is Yojimbo.
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