Non che abbia visto l'
originale di
Wes Craven (a sua volta indicato come rifacimento non-so-quanto-fedele de
La Fontana della Vergine di
Bergman), ma sospetto non ci fosse tutto questo bisogno di un remake.
L'Ultima Casa A Sinistra pare invece soddisfare appieno il raffinato gusto del pubblico americano, che gli rifila un bel 6.7 su
IMDb. Mi vien da pensare che un qualche virus molto selettivo abbia sterminato tutti gli amanti del genere horror, negli ultimi anni...
Il capo di una sgangherata combriccola criminale viene fatto evadere durante il trasferimento in carcere; questo tizio è proprio cattivo, credete a me, ma non ha neppure tutti i torti ad essere adirato col mondo: si ritrova infatti a capo di un gruppetto di inetti tali, che fa quasi tenerezza.
A salvarlo - sul breve periodo, se non altro - il fratello erotomane, il giovane figlio che come tutti gli adolescenti si oppone al padre e vorrebbe diventare
Un Buono® (un po' come
Grisù vorrebbe fare il pompiere) e la presunta fidanzata.
Anche lei è cattiva che ammazza: pensate che arriva addirittura a togliersi la maglietta sotto cui non indossa nulla di fronte alla telecamera. E se vi sembra una scena gratuita e niente affatto malvagia, pensate a quelle che a differenza di lei
hanno bisogno del reggiseno...
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Cooomunque... per una serie di coincidenze drammaticamente stupide (vedi alla voce: "cercarsi rogne"), due giovincelle - di cui una in vacanza coi genitori nella summenzionata Ultima Casa A Sinistra - finiranno ostaggi di questi pirla.
Fortuna che il SUV su cui viaggiano è sufficientemente spazioso e comodo per tutti, almeno fintanto non si schiantano nella boscaglia dove potremo finalmente dedicarci ad un po' di salutare stupro & omicidio (non necessariamente in quest'ordine).
Sbrigate queste formalità, i malconci cattivoni potranno addirittura farsi ospitare dalla famiglia della vittima, nella casa che il provvidenziale temporale isola dal resto dell'universo.
Acuti come faine, i genitori realizzeranno però l'accaduto e non mancheranno d'opporsi fieramente ai malvagi che hanno distrutto quanto avevano di più caro (il SUV, intendo...)
Oltre al fatto che fa molto ridere - specie quando non vorrebbe - il film brilla per le fetentissime interpretazioni e la complessiva stupidità di tutti.
La tanto promessa escalation di vendetta da parte della famigliola poi resta solo nelle intenzioni (oddio: una coltellata e qualche pistolettata son buono anche io di darle, se motivato...
), e raggiunge il climax in una scena risibile e priva di logica.
Pare che in patria abbiano calcato molto sulla scena di stupro, per montare (
no pun intended?) il caso e creare hype attorno al film; si stava anche senza (la scena, il film, l'hype).
Il
regista ha recentemente minacciato il remake de
Gli Uccelli. Anche no, grazie.
Voto: 2, dai.
Trashometro
® 3/10:
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Last House on the Left, The (2009)
L'ultima casa a sinistra
Regista: Dennis Iliadis Scrittore: Adam Alleca,
Carl Ellsworth Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime
Valutazione: 6.7/10 (17946 voti)
Durata: 110 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:While being transported by two detectives in a car, the dangerous criminal Krug is rescued by his brother Francis and his girlfriend Sadie, and they brutally kill the detectives. Meanwhile Emma, her husband Dr. John and their seventeen year-old daughter Mari Collingwood head on vacation to their house nearby the lake. Mari borrows the family car to meet her friend Paige that is working in a store in the town. They befriend the teenager Justin in the store and he offers some marijuana to the pothead Paige in the motel where he is lodged. While they are smoking grass in Justin's room, Krug, who is Justin's father, Francis and Sadie arrive and abduct the girls. Krug drives Mari's car and she provokes a crash on a tree. Krug stabs Paige and rapes Mari; however Mary manages to escape, swimming in the lake, but Krug shots her on the back. They walk through the isolated road in the woods and they reach Collingwood's house telling that they have just had a car accident. Emma and John welcome the strangers until they discover what happened to their beloved daughter.
Trivia random: In a March 12, 2009 Black Book interview, Sara Paxton revealed that the rape sequence took 17 hours to film.
Citazione random: Paige: What do you feel like doing tonight?
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Iliadis, Dennis
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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Birds, The (1963)
Gli uccelli
Regista: Alfred Hitchcock Scrittore: Daphne Du Maurier,
Evan Hunter Genere: Romance, Horror, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.9/10 (49456 voti)
Durata: 119 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; he recognizes Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her own back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds.
Trivia random: SPOILER: For the scene in which Annie is killed, Suzanne Pleshette who played her told Alfred Hitchcock it would look good if her ear was all bloody and hanging off, so he sent her to the prop department. When it came to shooting the scene, Hitchcock had Annie facing the other way, so the viewer never sees the ear, which Pleshette recalled "was part of his delicious sense of humor."
Citazione random: Lydia Brenner: [reacting to Melanie's bird-inflicted wounds] Yes, of course, bandages! It's terrible!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Bergman, Ingmar
Nome di battesimo: Bergman, Ernst Ingmar
Data di nascita: 14 July 1918
Data di morte: 30 July 2007
Altezza: 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
Coniuge: Ingrid von Rosen::(11 November 1971 - 20 May 1995) (her death) 1 child, Käbi Laretei::(1959 - 1969) (divorced) 1 child, Gun Grut::(1951 - 1959) (divorced) 1 child, Ellen Bergman::(22 July 1945 - 1950) (divorced) 4 children, Else Fisher::(25 March 1943 - 1945) (divorced) 1 child
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born 14 July 1918, son of a priest. The film and TV-series, Den goda viljan (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film 'Söndagsbarn' depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the TV-mini Enskilda samtal (1996) (TV) is the trilogy closed. Here, as in 'Den Goda Viljan' Pernilla August play his mother. Note that all three movies are not always full true biographical stories. He began his career early with a puppet theatre which he, his sister and their friends played with. But he was the manager. Strictly professional he begun writing in 1941. He had written a play called 'Kaspers död' (aka 'Kaspers Death') which was produced the same year. It became his entrance into the movie business as Stina Bergman (not a relative), from the company SF (Swedish Filmindustry), had seen the play and thougt that there must be some dramatic talent in young Ingmar. His first job was to save other, more famous, writers poor scripts. Under one of that script-saving works he remebered that he had wrote a novel about his last year as a student. He took the novel, did the save-poor-script job first, then wrote a screenplay on his own novel. When he went back to SF, he delivered two scripts insteed of one. The script was Hets (1944) and was the fist Bergman screenplay that was put into film (by Alf Sjöberg). It was also in that movie Bergman did his first professional film-director job. Because Alf Sjöberg was busy, Bergman got order to shoot the last sequence of the film. Ingmar Bergman is the father of Daniel Bergman, director, and Mats Bergman, actor at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater. Ingmar Bergman was also CEO of the same theatre between 1963-66, where he hired almost every professional actor in Sweden. 1976 he had a famous tax problem. Bergman had trusted other people to give advice about his finances, but it turned out to be real bad advice. So he had to leave the country immediately, and so went to Germany. A few years later he got back to Sweden and made his last movie Fanny och Alexander (1982) (aka 'Fanny and Alexander'). He has retired from directing, but he still write scripts for film and TV and direct plays at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre.
Trivia random: Was romantically linked to Harriet Andersson from 1952 to 1955 and Bibi Andersson from 1955 to 1959.
Citazione random: In a quarrel with one of my sons, I said, "I know I've been a lousy father". He said, "A father? You haven't been a father at all!"
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Last House on the Left, The (1972)
L'ultima casa a sinistra
Regista: Wes Craven Scrittore: Wes Craven Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime
Valutazione: 5.8/10 (11318 voti)
Durata: 84 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Mari Collingwood tells her parents that she is going to the concert of underground band Bloodlust in New York with her friend Phyllis Stone. She borrows the family's car and heads with her friend to a dangerous neighborhood in the city. Meanwhile, the sadistic and cruel escapees Krug Stillo and Fred 'Weasel' Podowski are hidden in a hideout with their partners Sadie (Jeramie Rain) and Krug's addicted son Junior Stillo (Marc Sheffler) after killing two guards and one shepherd in their runaway. The two girls seek marijuana near the theater and meet Junior that offers some Colombian grass to them. They go to his apartment and are subdued by the criminals that rape Phyllis. On the next morning, they hide the girls in the trunk of their convertible and head to Canada. However, they have a problem with the car's rod and they stop on the road close to Mari's house. When Phyllis tries to escape, the gang stabs her to death and shots Mari after humiliating and raping them. They seek shelter in Mari's home, but during the night, her mother overhears a conversation of the criminals telling that they have killed her daughter. She tells her husband and they plot a scheme to revenge the death of their princess.
Trivia random: Director Trademark: [Wes Craven] [The blurring of dreams and reality].
Citazione random: Krug Stillo: You must think we're stupid right? No, we're not stupid. We might be horny old pigs, but, we ain't stupid.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Jungfrukällan (1960)
La fontana della vergine
Regista: Ingmar Bergman Scrittore: Ulla Isaksson Genere: Drama, Crime
Valutazione: 8.0/10 (7072 voti)
Durata: 89 min
Paese: Sweden
Lingua: Swedish, German
Cast:Trama:Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge.
Trivia random: Mentioned in the Van Halen song The Seventh Seal.
Citazione random: Töre: You are not alone, Mareta. And God alone bears our guilt.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Craven, Wes
Nome di battesimo: Craven, Wesley Earl
Data di nascita: 2 August 1939
Altezza: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Coniuge: Iya Labunka::(27 November 2004 - present), Mimi Craven::(25 July 1982 - 1987) (divorced), Bonnie Broecker::(1964 - 1969) (divorced) 2 children
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Wes was born in Cleveland in 1939 and raised in a Baptist family. After an unhappy childhood, he left Cleveland to study for a degree in English Literature, at Wheaton College, Illinois. But after illness, he left the school for one year before returning to study psychology. In 1963, he took a degree in writing and psychology and in 1964 he took a Masters from J. Hopkins University. While he was a humanities college teacher, Wes married Bonnie Broecker, mother of both his children, Jonathan and Jessica. But after few years, they separated, and the children stayed with Bonnie. Wes left his job as a teacher, and after employment as taxi driver, he became a sound editor for a post-production company in New York. And after the co-direction of Together (1971) with Sean S. Cunningham, Wes made the horror movie The Last House on the Left (1972). The movie, released in August 1972, was a big success as was his second movie, The Hills Have Eyes (1977), winning the critic's prize at the Sitges Film Festival. Wes has gone onto win many more awards, including one for the best movie at the Avoriaz Film Festival for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). In 1999 he directed Music of the Heart (1999), a change of direction from the horror genre for which he is known.
Trivia random: In 1976 he acted in "Tales That Will Tear Your Heart Out," a project being made under the supervision of friend Roy Frumkes, who was teaching at a state university at that time. Shortly after the filming, the raw stock was mistakingly re-exposed by another student, so both days' shooting were lost.
Citazione random: "I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
