"THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT" 1972 Original film - Movie Radio Spots 7" 45 RPM
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"THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT", 1972 Original Film Movie Radio Spots, 7 inch, 45 rpm 1 - 60 sec & 1 - 30 sec spots
The record and label look good, has some light clicks and hiss. Spots contain the audio "Keep repeating it's only a movie...only a movie"
The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation-horror film written, edited, and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Sean S. Cunningham. The story is inspired by the 1960 Swedish film The Virgin Spring, directed by Ingmar Bergman, which in turn is based on the 13th-century Swedish ballad "Töres döttrar i Wänge". It is the directorial debut from Craven.
One of the more memorable aspects of the film is the advertising campaign. The film underwent many name changes, including Sex Crime of the Century (from the characters' dialogue in the car ride scene), Krug and Company (a version included on the DVD release), and The Men's Room (simply because one poster showed a men's bathroom). None of these names were particularly successful. Someone then came up with the title The Last House on the Left, along with the infamous "To avoid fainting, keep repeating 'It's only a movie'..." advertising campaign. (In actuality, it had been used twice before: first for gore-meister H.G. Lewis's 1964 splatter film Color Me Blood Red, and then for William Castle's Strait-Jacket the following year.) The film under the Last House... title proved to be a massive hit. Stories as to where the advertising campaign originated vary somewhat. Sean Cunningham claims that the person who gave the idea for it was watching a cut of the film with his wife, who continually covered her eyes, prompting him to tell her that it was "only a movie". Other origins have been suggested, however. The tagline was so successful that many other exploitation films later used it, sometimes with their own spin. The title was sometimes imitated, as in the case of Last House on Dead End Street. Poster IS NOT Included
The film received generally positive reviews. The film currently has a 63% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four, and described it as "about four times as good as you'd expect."
English film critic Mark Kermode opined that while the film is shoddily made, its subject matter "horrible, grim, and nasty," and its perceived notion that "violence begets violence" comes off as "obnoxious," it stands as a "very, very important work in the evolution of American horror cinema" because of the events influencing and surrounding its creation and release, namely television footage of the Vietnam War.
The film was censored in many countries, and was particularly controversial in the United Kingdom. The film was refused a certificate for cinema release by the BBFC in 1974 due to scenes of sadism and violence. During the early 1980s home video boom, the film was released uncut (save for an incidental, gore-free scene with the comedy cops, and the end credit roll) as a video that did not fall under their remit at the time. This changed when the "video nasty" scare which started in 1982 led to the Video Recordings Act 1984. This in turn banned the film as one of the Department of Public Prosecutions list of "video nasties."
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