The Last House on the Beach

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The Last House on the Beach
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Directed by Franco Prosperi
Screenplay by
  • Romano Migliorini
  • Gianbattista Mussetto [1]
Story by Ettore Sanzò [1]
Produced by Pino Buricchi [1]
Starring
Cinematography Cristiano Pogány [1]
Edited by Francesco Malvestito [1]
Music by Roberto Pregadio [1]
Production
company
Magirus Film [1]
Distributed byMagirus
Release date
  • April 20, 1978 (1978-04-20)(Italy)
Running time
85 minutes [1]
CountryItaly [1]
Box office ₤25.4 million

The Last House on the Beach (Italian: La settima donna, also known as Terror and The Seventh Woman) is a 1978 Italian rape and revenge-thriller film directed by Franco Prosperi.

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The American title refers to Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left , and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas stated how "combining the nunsploitation subgenre with rape-revenge, the film deviates plot-wise from The Last House on the Left substantially, but arrives at a similar ethical conclusion". [2]

It was argued that the final scene of the movie inspired the final scene in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof . [3] [4] [5]

Cast

Production

The Last House on the Beach was Franco Prosperi's second film as a director he made for producer Pino Burichhi. [1]

Release

The Last House on the Beach was distributed in Italy by Magirus and released on April 20, 1978. [1] Roberto Curti, author of Italian Crime Filmography 1968-1980 described the film as "performing very poorly in the Italian box office". [1] It grossed a total of 25.4 million Italian lira on its theatrical release. [1]

Reception

Roberto Curti stated that the film was one of the sleaziest sexploitation films. [1] Curti noted that the plot progression was minimal, and what was left was "a succession of grim, misogynist and exploitative scenes: adolescent nudes, slow motion sodomizations, vicious wounds, assorted killings." [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Curti 2013, p. 254.
  2. ↑ Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (14 June 2011). Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study. McFarland, 2011. ISBN   978-0-7864-4961-3.
  3. ↑ David Annandale (November 1, 2008). "Death-Proofing the Last House on the Beach". Upcoming Discs. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "The Last House on the Beach - Review". Fright.com. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  5. ↑ Gianluca Macrì (December 2, 2007). "Ray Lovelock: "It's easy when you're Big In Japan"" (in Italian). Omero.it. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2011.

Bibliography

  • Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN   978-0786469765.


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