The Last House on the Left - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of The Last House on the Left or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Last House on the Left

[carl]

Body Count 6

[manuel]

Wes Craven: [Blurring of dreams and reality] Krug has an ominous dream sequence.

[lynn]

Wes Craven later used the name "Krug" in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) for the film's villain, "Freddy KRUEGer." In both films the name is used for teenage murderers.

[jesus]

Siskel and Ebert were divided on this movie. Siskel called it "the sickest film of the year" and gave it one star. Ebert gave it 3 and a half stars saying"' Last House on the Left' is a tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that's about four times as good as you'd expect. There is a moment of such sheer and unexpected terror that it beats anything in the heart-in-the-mouth line since Alan Arkin jumped out of the darkness at Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark.""

[bryan]

Wes Craven: [Family breakdown]

[tom]

David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, and Marc Sheffler improvised a lot of their dialogue.

[jim]

Ada Washington worked as a maid and nanny for producer Sean S. Cunningham's parent. This movie was her sole foray into film acting.

[claude]

According to director Wes Craven, the crew set up a special editing office to restore prints returned from cinemas because "every one would come back chopped up by theater owners".

[melinda]

Wes Craven famously walked out of a screening of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs in 1992, and Tarantino famously said, "I can't believe the guy who directed Last House on The Left walked out of Reservoir Dogs". Craven responded "Last House was about the evils and horrors of violence, it did not mean to glorify it. This movie (Reservoir Dogs) glorifies it."

[francisco]

Fred J. Lincoln has stated on numerous occasions that he considers this film to be the worst movie he ever did.

[nora]

Steve Miner and his local friends painted the big white target symbol on the road that Krug and company drive over early in the film.

[wallace]

Wes Craven's directorial debut.

[wallace]

Sara Cassell had a horrible time filming this movie, and felt traumatized much like her character, the ill-fated Mari. She was uncomfortable filming the sex scenes, and the Krug gang actors, in an overenthusiastic attempt to be method, harassed her off-screen as well. So much of the filmed crying, terror, dread and disgust you see her display onscreen is quite real. Another person who was disgusted by the whole project was Weasel actor Fred J Lincoln, who says he regrets making the movie. Both Cassell and Lincoln refuse to talk about the movie in interviews. Although Lucy Grantham and David Hess, who played Phyllis and Krug respectively, were quite comfortable during the filming, and have talked about the movie proudly in interviews.

[cassandra]

A modern-day (at the time) remake of Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" (1960).

[cameron]

According to various cast and crew members (especially David Hess and Fred J. Lincoln), actress Sandra Peabody was genuinely terrified throughout most of the shoot, at one point walking off-set. Eventually the filmmakers caught up with her and convinced her to return and finish the film.