The Last House on the Beach | |
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Directed by | Franco Prosperi |
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Story by | Ettore Sanzò [1] |
Produced by | Pino Buricchi [1] |
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Cinematography | Cristiano Pogány [1] |
Edited by | Francesco Malvestito [1] |
Music by | Roberto Pregadio [1] |
Production company | Magirus Film [1] |
Distributed by | Magirus |
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Running time | 85 minutes [1] |
Country | Italy [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.
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]
The Last House on the Beach was Franco Prosperi's second film as a director he made for producer Pino Burichhi. [1]
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]
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]
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