Simply Perfect

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent but underrated film

As Good As It Gets

The last house on left really was a good movie there were some parts that were hard watch but it still a better good you have to watch it

PROS: One thing that was well realized was the build up of tension. It almost felt like the film was happening in real time, which gave that extra bit of paranoia to the project. When the movie unraveled it spiraled out of control giving a sort of hypnotic attractiveness. It lured you in and kept you hyper focused on each event, which allowed for the extreme scenes to have no limits, giving it that great tension. I genuinely don't believe that this could've been achieved if the acting wasn't as good as it was. Each character had depth, had more to them than just "a father" "a rapist" "a victim". These were real people, and that came across through the screen. The Final thing that I appreciated was the feel of the movie. It's hard to explain, but the tone of the scene, the weather, and the timing really vamped up the movies importance. To top it all off, the film had a very classic horror vibe which was terrific.CONS: The biggest thing that bothered me was the resolution. It not only felt redundant, but it was unbelievable and not plausible by any means.www.chorror.com

It was pretty obvious from the beginning that the girl called Josh who looks like a boy was going to rat them all out and you could tell that all four hoodlums were going to die without the Mom and Dad receiving so much as a scratch.I also feel that this movie could be shorter. The beginning seems unnecessarily long and leaves you thinking "When do we get to the good stuff?" I praise this movie for having a simple plot. The bad guys rape a girl, her parents take brutal revenge. The characters were simple people and you can understand who they were which is a personal preference of mine. Some people look for really deep complicated characters but you won't find any in this movie.

I haven't seen this in a couple years, so my memory of it was a little fuzzy. Now I know that it was far better than I expected. A huge improvement to the original was a consistently dark atmosphere. In Wes Craven's version, it felt silly at times, namely the scenes with the cops and the whole "Willow" stuff. This remake was also a lot more intense and suspenseful, and the danger felt a lot more real. The ending may somewhat blunt the movie's overall effect, but, hey, how often do you get that sort of ending in a horror movie? The rape scene was very difficult to sit through because it was so long and realistic, which is my only real complaint. If you had to choose to watch the original or the remake, I would go with the remake because it's a lot more thrilling, and it's far superior to Wes Craven's version overall.