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The Last House on the Left
(1972)
In Wes Craven's controversial early low-budget horror
film, a taboo-breaking and often revolting 'snuff'-type film:
- the film's sensational opening titles sequence -
teenaged Mari Collingwood (Sandra Cassell) in the shower preparing
to go out with her friend Phyllis Stone (Lucy Grantham) and search
for pot while on their way to a Blood Lust concert
- the long ordeal of the two teenaged girls who were
kidnapped by a group of escaped convicts led by Krug Stillo (David
Hess); Phyllis' dark blue blouse was opened to expose her breasts,
and then Krug punched her in the stomach and raped her
- their brutal and sadistic torture, rape, dis-embowelment,
and eventual murder in the woods -- blue-wearing Phyllis was forced
to urinate with her clothes on ("Piss (in) your pants...Do it!")
- the camera panned down, showing her wettened blue-jeans
Mari and Phyllis
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Phyllis Ordered to Piss In Her Pants
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Forced Oral Sex
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- the two females were stripped naked and forced
to have oral sex with each other ("Make them make it with
each other!") - as the girls rationalized: "lt's just
you and me here. Nobody else. Just you and me, okay?"; psychopathic,
sadistic gang member Sadie (Jeramie Rain) also performed oral sex
on Mari
- the scene of Phyllis making a run for it, but was
cornered, stabbed in the back by deviant Fred "Weasel" Podowski
(Fred Lincoln) and then dis-emboweled (after repeated stabbings)
and butchered, after which Sadie reached in and pulled out her gooey
intestines to examine them - Phyllis' left hand and half of her forearm
were amputated (off-screen)
- the brutal sequence when Mari had Krug's name carved
into her upper chest and was then brutally raped (as he drooled onto
her face); she vomited and then walked dazedly into a nearby pond
to half-submerge and cleanse herself where Krug shot and killed her,
and she floated on the water's surface
- and the later sequence of animalistic payback revenge/slaughter
by the Collingwoods on the gang (who had been seen in intercut
segments, planning a 'surprise party' for Mari) -- the father (Gaylord
St. James) semi-electrocuted Krug, chipped out his teeth out with
a chisel (in a dream sequence) and pursued him with a chainsaw
and killed him (off-screen, evidenced by blood splatter)
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Father's Pursuit of Krug with Chainsaw
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- meanwhile outdoors, the mother (Cynthia Carr) cleverly
enticed gang member "Weasel" to have sex (she had also
convinced him to have his hands tied behind his back) - he told
her: "Now you just unzip me, and that's all l'll need you
for"; at first, his penis ("little thing...poor little
fellow") became caught in his zipper and he was unresponsive,
but as she touched him more and more, he warned: "lf you don't
watch it, l'm gonna come"; she urged: "Please come then,
sweetie"; he asked: "Don't you want me to do you good
and proper?" - she replied: "You can do both, can't you?" -
he boasted: "Hell, yeah! I can come five or six times if you
want me to"; she sank down to crotch-height, and as he was
climaxing, she viciously bit off and dismembered his penis; after
returning home, she fought off Sadie with a knife, and then was
able to slash her throat with the weapon in the pool
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Mari (Sandra Cassell)
Initial Rape of Phyllis
Phyllis Stabbed in Back and Disemboweled; Left Hand Amputated
Weasel Fellated and Then Castrated
Sadie Slashed to Death with Knife in Pool
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