The Last House on the Left (1972 film)

[quote] Any fans here?

Perhaps.

'Weasel and Sadie, Junkie and Dad / A quartet in harmony, barbershop baaa-aad / Cuttin' and stylin' to size and to shape / Krugsie ya know that this foolin' around isn't gettin' us outta the staaa-aaaate!'

Not my kind of horror, but I remember reading a review in "Creem" that said something along the lines of "Does your mother love you enough to bite off your murderer's cock in the middle of a blow job?"

The 2009 one involved a head placed into a microwave.

In the DVD audio commentary, either Wes Craven or one of the actors confirmed that the scene with the dad and the chain saw was shot without any safety measures in place. It was one of about a half-dozen moments that made you wonder how no one ended up in jail or the emergency room.

Yes, R5, and I think the two actors in that scene also got into a fistfight on top of the chainsaw hijinks. The actress who played Mari was routinely tormented by the other actors, too--I think one of them threatened to throw her off a cliff is she didn't do the scene correctly.

They really felt like straight out of an asylum bunch of nutters, one of the most visceral and effective cast of characters, and one majorly iconic film. Its influence is evident in many, many other horror films.

Is the director's cut still in existence?

To think that the source film, 1960's "The Virgin Spring," was banned in parts of the U.S. I saw it years later on early cable tv in the late 1970s, I think.

I remember the newspaper ads for LHOTL with the tagline: "Keep repeating, it's only a movie, only a movie, only a movie!"