I meant to post about this one awhile ago, but Wes Craven's attempt at remaking HIS OWN film, the 1972 horror classic The Last House on the Left, didn't signal my urgency button. No doubt the scare master had his day (1984's Nightmare on Elm Street and the 1977 original The Hills Have Eyes), but recently fans seem to be fleeing from his movies based on an entirely new type of fear: mediocrity. Dracula 2000, Pulse, and even the wearing thin Scream trilogy - soon to be quadrilogy - have knocked the writer/director/producer down a peg or two on the credibility front. It's preciscely because Craven is so brilliant, and set the bar high with his early work that his fans deserve better. New ideas, or even creative expansion would vastly superceed the pumping of existing work for all the commercial success possible. Did I mention he's also remaking Nightmare on Elm Street next year?I probably will never see his latest remake, and yet the trailer did intrigue me. Knowing the premise of the movie of course helps, but even newcomers will be unnerved by the haunting perfection of Taken By Tree's cover of Guns n' Roses "Sweet Child of Mine" used as background.
Taken By Trees' toned-down ode to parenting is paired so well with images of "normal, sane" parents going to extremes to avenge the actrocities inflicted on their child, how could any movie be better than these 2 minutes and thirty seconds?
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