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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 55% Rotten Page   1   "in its way [the film] out-Hanekes Haneke (without feeling like a lecture), by confronting us in the end with what we expected (and possibly also desired) all along from this kind of movie."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel 2.5/5 "The Last House on the Left is reverent to his original. Too bad it's not as nasty."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron 7/10 "Given my particular distaste for both remakes and rape-revenge movies, I was as surprised as anyone to find that this is a better horror movie than it probably should be."   CampBlood.org   Brian Juergens F "A banal, insistently juvenile venture that climaxes loudly from its own gaudy sadism, reveling in sexual violence to a blinding degree that spotlights brazen incompetence over any fundamental genre manipulation."   DVDTalk.com   Brian Orndorf B- "As an exploitation B-horror movie, this latest addition to the genre is heads and shoulders above anything Rob Zombie has ever done."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 1/5 "Shinier, but no less disgusting."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 3/4 "An obvious improvement over its amateurish predecessor..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "It's pretty to look at and ugly to digest."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Enthralling, mature and full of measured tension. The Last House on the Left is no The Virgin Spring, but it beats the pants off of its direct thirty-seven-year-old predecessor."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B- "There's something admirable about a film that so effectively taps into a viewer's primal instincts."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "Craven himself has said that the 2009 is a marked improvement over his film and some fans I know balked at such a statement. Only the truth is they should keep repeating to themselves, 'Craven was right. Craven was right.'"   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress "... superior [to the original] in that it makes clear the conflicting justification and degradation of the retaliation, establishing a grayer level of morality."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. "Unlike the Craven film, there's little of the audience implication that made these visions of violated innocence and draining retribution so troubling."   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C "For what it is...The Last House on the Left is effective. The problem lies in what it is--a pure exercise in sadism unencumbered by any larger concerns."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "This film is only for those who go in with open eyes and understand what they're in for."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "rectifies the original's bizarre tonal range, but also dilutes its thematic power by completely discarding the critical portrayal of vengeance as a zero-sum game"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3.5/5 "Brutal, bloody, and bleak, The Last House on the Left is a rarity in an age of tepid remakes."   AMCtv.com   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 1.5/5 "if you like rape, you'll love The Last House on the Left. The rest of America with normal sensibilities probably doesn't have the stomach for this film."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B+ "In comparison [to Craven's original], Ililadis's remake is like the difference between Rob Zombie's "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects" - times ten."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "The remake of Wes Craven's notorious rape-revenge shocker is a crowd-pleaser rather than a grim moral lesson about the price of doing very bad things, and as long as the downbeat lead-in doesn't put them off, the third-act payoff will have audiences cheer"   Film Journal International   Maitland McDonagh "[A]ssume[s] that the audience is a vicarious sexual sadist..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/5 "Last House on the Left stands as the second Craven remake where the new filmmaker manages to get more right than wrong."   The Horror Geek   Mike Bracken 3/4 "Gone is the original's early campiness, here replaced by eye-of-the-storm calm that portends tragedy, as well as its later over-the-top grindhouse gore, now swapped for taut suspense punctuated by visceral brutality."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1.5/5 "There’s little to set this latest Last House apart from other revenge-themed horror flicks of the past 30 years."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/5 "While viewers left the original film shaken, disquieted and deeply disturbed, audiences here are meant to be sent out cheering over the over-the-top ways in which the bad guys are dispatched, a change that I find almost more disturbing than anything that"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "...just an impersonal Saturday-night revenge flick, of the sort that Michael Haneke's Funny Games (either version) eviscerated and made irrelevant."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "If one engages in such an endeavor to begin with, then filing away the harshest edges becomes counterproductive."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux 4.5/5 "A fascinating and confrontational horror film that deals with terrors a lot more chilling than some dude swinging a machete."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg "... there is a certain raw emotion behind the film, even in the face of the minor changes, but what was transgressive then is no longer so startling now..."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker B "Iliadis is more visually sophisticated than Craven was in 1972 and works hard to sustain the mood and tension while still hitting the audience with blunt scenes of wincing violence."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "Remaking Last House on the Left seemed like a dubious proposition at best...yet somehow the new HOUSE works better than expected."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski 7/10 "Much less tawdry than the original, and much more harrowing."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3/5 "The remake isn't terrible, isn't torture porn, and isn't much else either: to avoid depth, keep repeating, 'it's only a movie, it's only a movie'."   DVDTalk.com   Tyler Foster  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 55% Rotten Page   1