Exploitation films – Page 5 – Really Awful Movies

The Last House on the Left

With no apologies to fans of Scream, The Last House on the Left is Wes Craven’s second best, a masterpiece that’s a cut below the all-time great A Nightmare on Elm Street because of the latter’s sublime creativity. This one’s a gut-punch, as unrelenting and uncompromising as they come. And one of the more harrowingContinue reading “The Last House on the Left”

Don’t Open Till Christmas

There are just too many Santa slashers. So Don’t Open Till Christmas, which turns the tables by making the fat man in felt the victim rather than the perp, is a welcome change. This fraught British production was long in the making and it’s evident in the finished product. But it’s a wild one. TwoContinue reading “Don’t Open Till Christmas”