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Two teenage girls fall victim to an escaped gang of killers, sadists and rapists – who eventually find themselves in the house where one of the girls’ parents live.

Wes Craven’s directing debut is a notorious ”video nasty”, inspired by Bergman’s Virgin Spring (1960). There’s no budget here to speak of; the grotesque violence is an attempt by Craven to show what the real thing looks like, but it comes off as exploitative more than anything else.

No tension, but a little bit of slapstick.

1972-U.S. 84 min. Color. Produced by Sean S. Cunningham. Written, directed and edited by Wes Craven. Cast: Sandra Peabody (Mari Collingwood), Lucy Grantham (Phyllis Stone), David A. Hess (Krug Stillo), Fred Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler, Martin Kove.

Trivia: Originally written as a hardcore film. Banned for decades in some countries. Remade as The Last House on the Left (2009).