#david hess

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The House on the Edge of the Park (1980)

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House on the Edge of the Park aka La casa sperduta nel parco (1980)

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The Last House on the Left (1972) dir. Wes Craven

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Bad movie I have Swamp Thing 1982

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Remembering David Hess (September 19, 1936 – October 7, 2011).

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Up next on my Spooktober Filmfest...The Last House On The Left (1972) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #lasthouseontheleft #wescraven #RIPWesCraven #sandracassel #lucygrantham #davidhess #fredjlincoln #marcsheffler #JeramieRain #adawashington #gaylordstjames #marshallanker #MartinKove #cynthiacarr #dvd #70s #Spooktober #Halloween #october

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Movie Review | To All A Goodnight (Hess, 1980)

Contains a horrifying scene where a science nerd, the morning after getting laid, starts talking about football. Given that this character manages to bag a chick who looks like a darker haired Annette O'Toole and then starts macking on the main chick, you'd think his character arc would be an inspirational one, but the drastic change in his personality from man of science and knowledge to football bozo instead suggests a Faustian bargain has been made. Yeah, I was more into trivia than sports growing up, why do you ask?

The best part of this is without a doubt the performance by Judith Bridges, who starts off jokingly talking with an Atlantic accent, then starts talking with it for real and then... well, to say anything more about what happens to her would be a spoiler. But she very much marches to her own beat, seemingly divorced from the kind of movie she's in. One wonders if she just decided to do her own and director David Hess just accepted it. One wonders if she was beamed in from another dimension into this modest little slasher. It seems she only has a handful of IMDb credits, so the latter theory is more likely. Beaming into our dimension every few years, or perhaps even decades, to spread a little joy and return to her home.

And yes, this is directed by THAT David Hess. I won't pretend that he's one of the great actor-turned-directors, although he manages a few choices, like a fade to red after the reveal of a corpse, that along with Bridges' performance and the odd soundtrack, push this very, very slightly into accidental avant garde territory. Given how fearsome a performer he can be, one wishes he stepped in front of the camera, but at least we get cinema luminary Harry Reems appear in a small role as a pilot (who is treated rather rudely by the main characters for some reason). One also wishes he paid off one character's boast about "five years of karate and a black belt", but alas there are limits to this movie's weirdness.

As a Christmas slasher, this certainly has Christmas lights and a killer in a Santa suit, but the setting is in too warm a climate (there are palm trees) to capture the Hot Cocoa vibes I want from these things. That being said, the dead air of these early slashers feels very cozy to me, and with all the scenes of characters walking around the darkened house, and with a couple of neat kills, I had a pretty good time. Most movies don't even have one kill using a crossbow. This one has TWO. You can't argue with those savings.

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Last House on the Left 1972

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Im also down beyond catastrophic for David Hess in Last House On The Left he is an incredibly handsome man and a skilled actor who gives a bone chilling performance I even watched "House at the end of the lake" just so I could look at him some more he was one of the first masc guys I ever had a crush on in like elementary school. This does not mean that I endorse tricking teen girls back to your hotel with false promises of selling weed, sexually assaulting and torturing them for 2 days, disembowling one, and shooting the other in the back as she tries to swim across a lake only to take shelter with her Parents, convince your own abused son to commit suicide, and in the end be disposed of by her nerdy dad wielding a chainsaw that is clearly a running chainsaw and not a prop because a few times there's a close swing and the look of fear on Hess' face is NOT acting.

Movies are written by writers (just like me!) They are brought to life by actors (like my best friend from HS). They are just artists coming together to make art. if you think enjoying art is expressing support for that behavior in real life you are not mature enough to consume or have an opinion on art intended for anybody post-pubescent.

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To All a Goodnight (1980) David Hess

December 22nd 2024

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The Last House on the Left was released on August 30, 1972.

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...The Last House On The Left (1972) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #lasthouseontheleft #wescraven #ripwescraven #sandracassel #sandrapeabody #davidhess #lucygrantham #fredjlincoln #marcsheffler #adawashington #JeramieRain #gaylordstjames #marshallanker #cynthiacarr #MartinKove #70s #DVD #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

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The Last House on the Left (1972)

The Last House on the Left (1972) #Review

Synopsis- Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts. Director- Wes Craven Starring- Sandra Peabody, David Hess, Lucy Grantham Genre- Horror | Crime Released- 1972 ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Wes Craven’s “The Last House on the Left” (1972) is a groundbreaking film…