The Last House on the Left

Wes Craven came up to filmmaking through the thin line between exploitation and pornography, but he was approaching even his earliest efforts with an eye towards making them more than just splatter and T&A features. He wanted to say something. However, Craven, at this age, was either too young, too inexperienced, or simply working in a sliver of the film industry that was too disreputable for him to fully mine the ideas he seemed to be going for. Sidelining character for the pursuit of uglin...