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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”

Piranha 2010

There are a number of fish-featuring horrors, a pretty big boat to fill, actually. And other than Jaws, you’d be hard pressed to find a a more spirited fishy eco-horror than the original Piranha. Joe Dante and John Sayles definitely helped take a quickie Corman/New World Pictures production, what Steven Spielberg called “the best ofContinue reading “Piranha 2010”