"The Last House on the Left"

I hate it when reviews give away the entire plot of a movie. I promise never to do that. I will give the premise of the movie and a rating on the B.E. scale. Don't watch the trailer to this film if you plan on watching the movie--it gives everything away: Trailer

The Last House on the Left is a re-imagining of the 1972 movie of the same name. Friends Mary and Paige are abducted by a gang of psychopathic criminals. The criminals become stranded near Mary’s house. (Because Mary managed to trick the gang into taking the road to her house rather than the one that leads to a main road. Mary did this in order to get help from her parents in what is apparently a remote area.) The scenes where the girls are brutalized are difficult to watch, but it makes the scenes of violent retribution that follow strangely satisfying. (The term “serves him right” came to mind when a garbage disposal became involved.)

Without giving it away, I have to say that this is a good movie ruined by its final scene. (I won’t ruin it except to say that microwaves don’t work that way.)

The final scene forced me to give an otherwise good movie a rating of 3 on the B.E. scale.