La Dernière Maison sur la gauche

Je note le film "Pátek třináctého", "Krvelačný Valentýn" et autres du même genre car ils se déroulent dans le même contexte. Et avec eux, il y a enfin le film "Dernière maison sur la gauche", qui est un véritable massacre brutal, où l'on ne retrouve pas d'adolescents irritants et obsédés par les GPS, ni d'autres tueurs masqués immortels et branchés. Soit nous sommes désolés pour les victimes des massacres, soit nous voulons les voir gisant par terre, couvertes de sang. Les émotions fonctionnent, les performances des acteurs sont suffisantes. Si le film allait en profondeur (la question éthique de l'exécution personnelle du bourreau de son enfant) et avait des méchants plus intéressants, il aurait pu être complètement différent, plus précieux. Mais pour cela, nous avons Michaela Haneke, pas Wes Craven. De plus, l'original ne va pas non plus en profondeur et n'est qu'un shocker d'exploitation. (15/05/2009)

The creators did the best they could with the original Last House On The Left, i.e. they did away with the wannabe funny and grotesque subplot with the cops, eliminated a lot of holes in logic and got a bigger budget. The violence escalates to a point where you can still bear it without problem, but it’s also sufficiently strong to generate an emotional response. The result is a superb and brilliantly made soft-exploitation film that it’s better than the original in every way. The fans of The Mummy, Transformers and other similar fairytales can complain all they want about this being a boring and gratuitously brutal film, but that’s what you can expect from them. There hasn’t been better horror in Czech cinemas for a few months and the fact that I was alone in the theatre is very sad in its own way. 85% (25/05/2009)

Boring, empty, self-serving. The violence is neither shocking, aesthetic or rousing, just emptily exhibiting and annoyingly stupid. The characters have absolutely no freedom of choice, the creators always push them where they want them to go, and brutality is the only way to get out of an emergency. Another confirmation that Hollywood makes rabbit shit out of pearls. There is a hundred times more real violence, real dilemmas and real suffering in "non-horror" Bergman. This crap belongs in the center of the peloton of mainstream attempts to shock. Who? Maybe only children. (17/05/2009)

Thanks to the hopeless atmosphere, the constant nasty feeling of what has already happened is nothing compared to what is yet to happen, and thanks to the absolute unpredictability of the plot, I have no choice and I have to put The Last House on the Left almost on the level of Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. It's probably the first film that deserves such a comparison. I wasn't really comfortable with the spectacle, but it greatly entertained me. (22/02/2021)

If all remakes of B-movies were of this quality, horror enthusiasts would have an uninterrupted movie feast. The Last House on the Left may be just another in a long line and is as far from the horror hall of fame as Uwe Boll's "red" rated films, but it’s nevertheless one of the significantly better films the Americans have offered in their frenzied horror output of recent years. Those who can endure the lengthy first act and the introduction to the characters, which is ultimately completely unnecessary, can look forward to a fairly detailed study of human suffering, depravity and the desire for revenge, which will eventually sweep every viewer to the side of the heroes. Atmospherically it's rather tone dull and psychologically it's only marginally biting, but when it was over I was overcome with a very pleasant feeling of well done filmmaking and the way our heroes resolved it all. The one year younger I Spit on Your Grave goes more headlong into it and has a much greater effect, but this one also does the job. 70% (22/03/2013)

Le concept de Wes Craven a été étiré sur deux heures qui s'écoulent lentement, ce qui n'apporte absolument rien au film. La première moitié est ennuyeuse et stupide, sans jamais en faire trop avec la violence. Le viol dans la forêt ne vous sortira pas vraiment de votre léthargie. Au contraire, à partir de la seconde moitié, l'histoire devient un pur film d'exploitation sanglant combiné à un film de vengeance, avec un retournement surprenant et des jeux avec le broyeur à déchets et le four à micro-ondes. Et le fan d'horreur finit enfin par obtenir satisfaction. Ou comment un navet d'une étoile a réussi à se hisser au moins à la catégorie d'un divertissement moyen en quelques minutes seulement. (27/06/2011)