Rating: Skip It

Two seventeen-year-old girls borrow Mom and Dad’s car to smoke pot with a complete stranger. It doesn’t take long to see where this one is going. From there on out it’s gore, sex and savagery filling the screen in Dennis Iliadis’s remake of The Last House on the Left.

The story is about two girls who run into the wrong group of people while looking to score some “good shit.” Mari (Sara Paxton) and Paige (Martha MacIsaac) overstay their welcome with an escaped convict named Krug (Garret Dillahunt), his friend Sadie (Riki Lindhome) and his brother Francis (Aaron Paul) and face the most fatal of consequences. The criminal threesome wants nothing more than to take pleasure in torturing the two girls. Enter routine, classic horror and thriller elements: Power going out, car accident and thunderstorm.

On a positive note, for all you gore fans out there, this will certainly tickle your fancy with a run-in with a garbage disposal in particular. Once the beating starts, it never stops, and the blood just keeps on pouring. To match the carnage, the cinematography was well done in a raw kind of way and the acting was surprisingly decent, even if Paxton is a Mischa Barton look-alike.

Though this remake of Wes Craven’s 1972 thriller is set in modern day and seems a little faster paced than the original, not much else is different. Besides the violent rape scene, there’s a couple of scenes that were changed, simply because they wouldn’t be able get away with the level of grotesqueness that happened in the predecessor (for instance, the blowjob snack). That said, if you’ve seen one you’ve seen the other, but if you like to watch naked girls, large amounts of blood and extreme ways to die, you’ll probably want to see it again anyway.