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The Last House on the Left
1972 · Film · 84 min
Directed by Wes Craven
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.
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I punched in 1972 and there were some fantastic movies that year (The Godfather, Deliverance, Cabaret, Solaris, Jeremiah Johnson, Aguirre - the Wrath of God, The Last House on the Left, Silent Running, The Heartbreak Kid, Fat City, etc.).
Also tried 1973 — same (The Day of the Jackal, Soylent Green, Westworld, The Wicker Man, Papillon, American Graffiti, The Sting, Serpico, Mean Streets, High Plains Drifter, Don't Look Now, Badlands, The Long Goodbye, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Three Musketeers, Fantastic Planet, etc.).
I think they simply made better movies decades ago.
Wes Craven was a master of horror and a brilliant director. Nightmare on elmstreet is definitly among the most frightning horror film ever seen and ranks at the same spot than Halloween in the movies that made horror matter as an artistic form. he was an author and an artist from the brilliant "the last house on the left" till the end of his carreer.
As a huge fan of his work I'm sad we don't get to see another reinvention of horror akin to what he did with scream.
Craven sort of puttered in the first 20 years of his career - first a professor, then a porn director (why not), then with a couple of smaller hits (last house on the left).
prior to Scream his big moment was clearly nightmare on elmstreet - he was 45 when it came out.
And I think the HN crowd that's gone through fundraising can relate to how this risky director with a big, crazy idea had to work to put it together:
"the film's original investors backed out at one point or another during pre-production. The original budget was merely $700,000. "It ended up at $1.1 million ... Half the funding came from a Yugoslavian guy who had a girlfriend he wanted in movies."[1]
How cool, will miss this guy who clearly brought the hustle.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street