Review: The Last House On The Left (2009)
Director: Dennis Iliadis Cast: Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Sara Paxton, Garret Dillahunt, Aaron Paul, Spencer Treat Clarke, Riki Lindhome, Martha MacIssac Dennis Iliadis’s version of The Last House on the Left is a film that has never left me since I watched it in theaters back in 2009. I wrote a review for it back then for the Augusta, Georgia college paper The Bell Ringer, although since their online site doesn’t archive reviews that far back, there was no way for me to reference it now. Seeing the movie again, it’s safe to say that the film has lost none of its power: It is just as effective now as it was back then. It does, however, leave me wondering who would want to see a movie like this in the first place. This film marks the fourth iteration of this material. Prior to it, there was the 2005 film Chaos , which was the single most repulsive, diseased, and dishonest movie ever made (the filmmakers there even said it was based on their original idea during the en...