The Last House on the Left
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Wes CravenCast
Sandra Peabody Lucy Grantham 
David Hess
Credits
Written by: Wes Craven
Plot
Two teenage girls are kidnapped by escaped convicts, and the killers take refuge with the parents of one of them. A shockingly violent debut.
Sinekatalog’s take
Wes Craven's debut is a notorious, brutal revenge horror, loosely based on Bergman's The Virgin Spring. It is crude and hard to watch, but its raw impact and moral shock made it a landmark of the genre.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.8 / 10 (43,095 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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