The Last House on the Left - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "The Last House on the Left"

The Last House on the Left (1972)

Timing: 1:24 (84 min)

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Actors and characters

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT Trailer

English

1:59

Darren Bousman on THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT

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1:53

The Last House on the Left (1972) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

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2:70

What's left behind the scenes

Initially, the film received the highest MPAA rating of X. Wes Craven then shortened the film by 10 minutes and resubmitted it to the commission. The film again received the same rating. The undeterred director cut another 10 minutes, but that didn't help either. Then Craven simply took a print with an R rating from a friend and stamped it on himself. This is how he managed to release the film.
In the United Kingdom, the film was banned until 2002.
Craven used the name and surname of his classmate, Mary Collingwood, as the name of one of the main characters.
The film was shot in Westport, Connecticut.
When the distribution companies Hallmark and Atlas released the film in Germany, they attempted to pass it off as a snuff film (a film featuring actual killings).
To create the fake blood, blue and red food coloring was mixed with caramel syrup. The resulting substance actually looked like blood, unlike how it is usually shown on screen.
According to director Wes Craven, a special editing department had to be organized to restore copies of the film that were returned from theaters, because theater owners consistently returned them “cut up.”
Martin Kove was initially offered the role of Krug Stillo, but he declined and asked to be given a less significant role (which he ultimately played), and suggested his friend David Hess for the role of Stillo. Hess eventually played the role and also became the film's composer.
According to Wes Craven, he himself did not expect such a reaction from the audience. It is claimed that some viewers vomited, others fainted from what they saw, and at least one viewer had a heart attack.
According to some members of the film crew (specifically David Hess and Fred J. Lincoln), actress Sandra Peabody was genuinely frightened during filming, and once even simply walked off the set. She had to be chased down and persuaded to return.
Filming was a difficult ordeal for Sandra Peabody. She felt uncomfortable during the filming of sexual scenes, and David Hess and the other actors playing the escaped criminals tormented her both on and off set, getting into character and frankly going too far. Fred J. Lincoln also disliked all of this very much, and later repeatedly spoke about how he regretted appearing in this film. Neither Peabody nor Lincoln ever spoke about the film in interviews again, while Lucy Granthem and David Hess had no difficulty with it.
Initially, a script for hard-core pornography was written, and the entire creative team was prepared for what lay ahead, but shortly after filming began, Wes Craven decided to change the script and remove the particularly explicit pornographic scenes.
Initially, the wide shot of the pond after the criminals washed away the blood ended with a frame of Marie desperately clinging to a tree branch, but during editing this frame was removed and immediately followed by the next scene, so the audience never saw Marie alive again.

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