Rogue's Last House on the Left Remake
Filed under: Horror, Universal, Remakes and Sequels
Last year came a grimy, grungy and aggressively inept horror movie called Chaos, which began its existence as an official remake of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, but shook itself free of that connection some time before release date. Despite the fact that Chaos is (in every way) a carbon copy of LHOTL, the filmmakers actually had the All of which makes this newly-announced "official" LHOTL remake seem kind of ... redundant. Then again, redundancy is what keeps the Horror Remake Machine well-oiled and churning merrily along, so perhaps it's a silly thing to whine over. For those who choose not to dabble in Cinema du Extra Harsh, Craven's Last House on the Left is about a pair of teenage girls who get beaten, molested, abused, tortured, raped and killed by a bunch of slovenly criminals -- and the parents who strike back with equal amounts of viciousness. (Suffice to say you won't be seeing a Disney version anytime soon.)
No word on who'll be writing, directing and/or starring in this new-fangled House, but Craven and his old-school producing partners (Marianne Maddalena and Sean S. Cunningham) are expected to earn Universal paychecks and opening-title credits without breaking much of a sweat. Also, Mr. Craven dropped a few hints regarding alleged remakes of both Shocker and The People Under the Stairs, which is news so arcane that my snark-meter just broke.
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8-19-2006 @ 8:08AM
Peter Nellhaus said...
Not that "Last House of the Left" was original either. The film is a contemporary update of Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring".
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8-22-2006 @ 12:56AM
B.W. said...
It's no secret that the collective Hollywood brain has nearly five firing neurons in it these days,and since they're on a roll,pissing on the good name of nearly every horror classic in the last thirty years,why not empty the ol' bladder on LHOTL too?Another in a growing line of films that do NOT need a flaccid remake,inevitably destined for the Blockbuster "Previously Viewed" rack,right next to "The Fog" remake,"The Wicker Man" remake,"Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" remake,"Black Christmas" remake,ad infinitum/nauseum.I mean, really,what gang of lowlifes(apart from me and my crew) can encompass cinematic scumbag-dom any better than David A. Hess,Fred Lincoln,Marc Sheffler,and the broad who kicks the dog to death upon prison break whose name eludes me at the moment?Hess went on to complete his scumbag trilogy(La Casa Sperduto nel Parco,Autostop Rossosangue),Lincoln went on to a fine career in a porn director's chair,and Sheffler most probably continued looking like Woody Allen's drug addicted dirtbag psychopath nephew,wandering in and out of sleaze palaces on the forty-deuce.These guys were MADE for these roles.Half of the disturbing draw of this film is seeing these guys doing despicable things on screen,and knowing somewhere in the back of your mind that they probably are re-enacting actual events from memory!Worst of all,the filmmakers will undoubtedly awaken David Hess from his cinematic slumber,assuring us of an appearance in some independent Italian copy-cat production,where he will NO DOUBT take his shirt off again,and nobody needs that.For the record the guy's got a mean grip for a sixty year old,and you wouldn't want to get somebody like that angry.Leave the classic ALONE.
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9-06-2006 @ 7:38PM
scott mcgilvrey said...
Im going to piss my pants.The Last House On The Left is a classic that should not be fucked with.To the director of the remake,Shame on you.
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