I can understand why many people think it's trash, however, I myself love the film. Just like anything that gets overhyped you have to go into it knowing its a 36 year old movie. In 1972 the expoitation films were still mainly underground. Somehow Last House managed to get some theater play therfor it reached audiences that normally would not dig to find this type of film. Some seen it by mistake and were so appaled they left the theater...this is the root of controversy. Give it 30+ years to age, and an evergrowing population of horror film makers, now mix that with how much the world has changed and how many are now desensitized and BAM, you now have a film that is no longer shocking, no longer has it's original appeal to stun the audience. You have a film that is now deemed "overhyped crap." In it's time it was effective. Today it's getting harder to please the insatiable need for violence. On a side note, the goofy cops (and goofier music in the cop scenes) added humor in a story based around kipnap, rape and murder. That was sure to mess with minds in 1972. Here in 2008? Nah, takes alot more than that to impress us horror-hounds.------JakeHorror
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