Review: The Last House on the Left (2009)

How many horror films are going to be subjected to an awful remake? Of course, there is still the original to watch, but that’s not the point. Now, as a rule, I’m against remakes, unless I wants to watch a terrible film. There’s only so much quality the mind can absorb before it needs a Tank Girl, or even a Star Wars prequel. Sometimes your mind needs some trash to relax! And with ‘ The Last House on the Left’ remake, I received what I asked for: a truly dire film. Now, the original is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a ‘classic’ horror film. It’s rough and ready, cheap and very nasty; it’s film-making on the hoof. There’s obviously a low budget, which accounts for the poor actors/actresses and such forth, but that’s also the key to its ‘classic-ness’.

Thoughts on Directors: Wes Craven and Sigmund Freud-A Marriage Made On Elm Street?

One, two, Wes is coming for you…

Today is Wes Craven’s birthday (Happy Birthday Mr. Craven!), so I thought there was no better time to comment on the relationship between Wes Craven and Sigmund Freud! Now, because his movie ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ involves dreams, it’s obvious to interpret the film in a Freudian manner. However, I wondered if this was the right way to go about it. I remembered a line from ‘The Last House of the Left.’ Krug is asked by Weasel about the greatest sex crime of the century. He replies by saying anything the Boston Strangler did. Then, the girl travelling with them shouts out ‘Sigmund Freud!’ and mentions something about the phallus.

Review: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) (Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This…)

“You’re having nightmares about Freddy?”

The TV version of Wes Craven’s Scream is soon to hit our screens, so I thought I’d take a look at Scream. But I couldn’t find my DVD…so, as a substitute, I watched Wes Crave’s New Nightmare instead. It’s also one of the original ‘post-modern meta-horror films,’ if that makes any sense. It’s Scream before Scream hit the screens. The premise is simple: the people involved in the original Nightmare on Elm Street (Heather Langencamp, Wes Craven, Robert Englund) all become involved in the ‘resurrection of evil.’ It takes place in the ‘real world,’ a pseudo-documentary set ten years after the original Nightmare came out.