History Film / TheLastHouseOnTheLeft

* GoryDiscretionShot: As a result of ExecutiveMeddling, we are spared the sight of Krug carving his name in Mari's chest. Also, we don't see Weasel's emasculation.

* ReCut: Cinema owners and projectionists would sometimes make their own cuts to the finished movie. There's also some debate on what the "true" uncut version of this film really is. The film supposedly ran 91-minutes uncut for a short while before Craven grew uneasy over the content and trimmed it down to 81 minutes. Three additional minutes were restored in the 80s for a reissue, and this is the "uncut" version usually released today. The supposed 91-minute version is the stuff of fan legend, and some don't believe it ever existed, and that the 84-minute cut was the complete version all along. Some believe that a 91-minute version once existed, but that the remaining cut footage is lost. Others believe that it does exist, but that the rights-holder (MGM) simply [[ExecutiveMeddling won't let the footage be restored]]. There's also an early work-print edit titled "Krug & Co." that's similar to the 84-minute version, but with a few different takes, choppier editing, and a completely different scene of the parents finding Mari (she's alive, and describes her attackers before dying).

'''John:''' No. [[PapaWolf I want to hear you]] ''[[PapaWolf beg for your]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[PapaWolf life.]]''

** The poster is also lying. The girl who's dying while leaning against the tree is Phyllis, not Mari.

'''John:''' No. [[PapaWolf I want to hear you]] ''[[PapaWolf beg for your]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[PapaWolf life]]''.

* TheSociopath: Krug Stillo, who rapes and tortures women for fun and got his son addicted to drugs to maintain control over him.

* {{Gorn}}: [[spoiler: Phyllis' fate.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Mari has one, after having been humiliated, abused, kidnapped and raped, [[spoiler: and ''before'' being murdered.]]

* ReCut: Cinema owners and projectionists would sometimes make their own cuts to the finished movie. There's also some debate on what the "true" uncut version of this film really is. The film supposedly ran 91-minutes uncut for a short while before Craven grew uneasy over the content and trimmed it down to 81 minutes. Three additional minutes were restored in the 80s for a reissue, and this is the "uncut" version usually released today. The supposed 91-minute version is the stuff of fan legend, and some don't believe it ever existed, and that the 84 minute cut was the complete version all along. Some believe that a 91-minute version once existed, but that the remaining cut footage is lost. Others believe that it does exist, but that the rights-holder (MGM) simply [[ExecutiveMeddling won't let the footage be restored]]. There's also an early work-print edit titled "Krug & Co." that's similar to the 84-minute version, but with a few different takes, choppier editing, and a completely different scene of the parents finding Mari (she's alive, and describes her attackers before dying).

** Also when Phyllis and Mari follow the obviously extremely weird boy who they barely know, and admit later that they thought he was creepy to begin with, to his dingy hotel room to buy drugs from him. Not to mention the fact that he is underage so there is no way that he rented the room by himself.

* VillainousBreakdown: Krug begins to slowly panic when it becomes clear he's screwed. His machismo and arrogance drains out of him to give way to sheer, understated terror to the point he's all but begging John to just get it over with.

* AdaptationNameChange: Estelle is changed to Emma, Phyllis is changed to Paige, Junior is changed to Justin and Weasel is changed to Francis.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Creator/WesCraven failed to get an R rating for ''The Last House on the Left'', even after removing 30 minutes from the movie. Ultimately, he got the movie into theaters by ''lying'' that it was R-rated. He spliced the "Rated R" certification from a different movie into his own film. No one noticed.

* TooDumbToLive: Ah, man, we raped [[spoiler: and murdered]] these people's daughter, and they don't even know! Wow, now the mom's giving me a BJ! This is the best road trip ever!
** Well, you can't blame them for not thinking that [[spoiler: maybe Mari would be washed up on shore and her parents will find her, or that Junior would be in the middle of a HeelRealization and having a FreakOut that winds up in the parents finding out.]]
** Also when Phyllis and Mari follow the obviously extremely weird boy who they barely know, and admit later that they thought he was creepy to begin with, to his dingy hotel room to buy drugs from him. Not to mention the fact that he is underage so there is no way that he rented the room by himself. Good idea girls, I guess don't talk to strangers doesn't apply if they promise you drugs.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Microwave ovens do NOT work like that. First, for safety reasons they are designed to remain deactivated while the oven door is open. There are ways to bypass such safety measures, but while the experience of having your head microwaved would be tremendously painful and it certainly would result in death, your head wouldn't explode. At most your eyes would rupture since they are basically fleshy bags of water, but that's it.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Microwave ovens do NOT work like that. First, for safety reasons they are designed to remain deactivated while the oven door is open. There are ways to bypass such safety measures, but while the experience of having your head microwaved would be tremendously painful and it certainly would result in death, your head wouldn't explode. At most your eyes would rupture since they are basically fleshy bags of water, but that's it.

* ArchEnemy: The Cunninghams have Krug Stillo, the gang leader who raped and murdered their daughter and her best friend.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Krug and company look guilty when Mari walks in shock towards the lake.

* BloodIsSquickerInWater: [[spoiler:Estelle slashes Sadie's throat]] while the latter is in a swimming pool.
* ChainsawGood: [[spoiler:Mr. Cunningham decides to not half-ass it with his vengeance at the climax and tears Krug apart with a saw. After a whole film of being a belligerent psycho, Krug finally [[OhCrap enters pants-wetting terror]].]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: Look at [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/last-house-on-the-left-dvd-cover.jpg the DVD cover]]. See that house there? That's not the house. Jury's out on whether it's even on the left.

* DirtyCoward: In the end [[spoiler:Krug appears to be this once he realizes that he is truly screwed and that old man Collingwood is gonna take him apart with that chainsaw, and suddenly all his macho psycho b.s. goes right out the window]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mari, Phyllis and Junior are dead, and even though Mari's parents have vindicated them, they're most likely going to prison due to the [[PoliceAreUseless stupid sheriff]]]].

* HateSink: Krug Stillo is a prisoner on the run, having been freed by his son, whom he deliberately got addicted to drugs to control him. After he encounters two girls, he leads some fellow escapees in raping and torturing them before murdering one of them. [[spoiler:When he learns that the parents of one of his victims are coming for revenge and his son helped them out of guilt, he orders the kid to kill himself.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Junior has one, and tries to help Mr. Collingwood when Krug is trying to kill the latter. While it distracts Krug, it still isn't enough to get rid of the psychological hold Krug has on him and Kru forces him to blow his own brains out.]]

* PapaWolf: John Collinwood. The man willingly annihilates the people that killed his daughter, [[spoiler:including carving the leader of the band, Krug, with a chainsaw.]]

* ReCut: Cinema owners and projectionists would sometimes make their own cuts to the finished movie. There's also some debate on what the "true" uncut version of this film really is. The film supposedly ran 91-minutes uncut for a short while before Craven grew uneasy over the content and trimmed it down to 81 minutes. Three additional minutes were restored in the 80s for a reissue, and this is the "uncut" version usually released today. The supposed 91 minute version is the stuff of fan legend, and some don't believe it ever existed, and that the 84 minute cut was the complete version all along. Some believe that a 91 minute version once existed, but that the remaining cut footage is lost. Others believe that it does exist, but that the rights-holder (MGM) simply [[ExecutiveMeddling won't let the footage be restored]]. There's also an early work-print edit titled "Krug & Co." that's similar to the 84-minute version, but with a few different takes, choppier editing, and a completely different scene of the parents finding Mari (she's alive, and describes her attackers before dying).

** Also when Phyllis and Mari follow the obviously extremely weird boy who they barely know, and admit later that they thought he was creepy to begin with, to his dingy hotel room to buy drugs from him. Not to mention the fact that they he is underage so there is no way that he rented the room by himself. Good idea girls, I guess don't talk to strangers doesn't apply if they promise you drugs.

* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:"You'll be fine," as John leaves Krug with his head in the microwave.]]

** Although the original is undeniably lurid, if when watching the rape scene in the remake you find anything remotely erotic about what's happening to Mari there is probably something wrong with you.

* KarmicDeath: All of [[spoiler:Krug's gang is explicitly killed off in this take of the film.]]

* MamaBear: Emma Collinwood, who is very eager to murder the people that [[spoiler:raped and nearly killed her daughter.]]

** Francis has one when [[spoiler:he sees a still alive Mari wrapped up in a blanket after her parents treated her gunshot wound. Mere seconds later, [[MamaBear Emma attacks]].]]

* PapaWolf: John Collinwood. [[spoiler:He ''fries'' the head of the leader of the band that hurt his daughter.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: The remake left Mari and Justin (named Junior in the original) alive, after Justin did a HeelFaceTurn (the movie also made it pretty clear that nothing that happened was his fault). In the original, Mari died, and Junior committed suicide]].
* TorturePorn: In this case it's the ''villains'' whose torture is more drawn out. Paige gets a relatively tame death - being stabbed only in the stomach, and [[spoiler: Mari actually survives altogether]]. However the murders of the three villains are very gratuitously violent and shot in a way that the viewer is meant to enjoy.

* AdultFear: Imagine thinking your daughter and her best friend are out enjoying a concert, only to later find her on your front porch, naked, brutalized, and barely alive. Now add the fact that earlier, you unwittingly let the people who did this to her into your house.

'''John:''' No. [[PapaWolf I want to hear you]] ''[[PapaWolf beg for your]]'' ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] ''[[PapaWolf life]]''.

** Francis has one when [[spoiler:he sees a still alive Mari after her parents treated her gunshot wound. Mere seconds later, [[MamaBear Emma attacks]].]]

* OhCrap: Krug has one when he discovers the carnage in the house, realising the Collingwoods have already dealt with Francis.

* Cruel and Unusual Death: [[spoiler: Krug, Weasel and Sadie repeatedly stabbing Phyllis to death and disemboweling her afterwards. ]]

* Cruel and Unusual Death: [[spoilers: Krug, Weasel and Sadie repeatedly stabbing Phylis to death and disemboweling her afterwards. ]]

* Cruel and Unusual Death: [[spoiler: Phyllis and Mari by the hands of the rapists.]]

* HateSink: It's safe to say the movie does everything in its power to make Krug and his gang as despicable as possible.