12 Movies Literally ONE Step From Perfection

12. Last House On The Left – The Cop Subplot

Scream helmer Wes Craven may know how to horrify an audience, but it took a while for the horror legend to learn the tricky balancing act required by his chosen genre.

For example, 1972’s still-horrifying Last House on the Left has retained all its power to shock and disturb despite being nowhere near as explicit as many modern mainstream horror releases.

Despite this, in the middle of an unrelentingly grimy, brutal, and almost unwatchable-ly harsh horror masterpiece there’s an entirely excisable subplot about a pair of bumbling cops on the case which seems transported in from a completely different film and badly dulls the flick’s intense edge.

No need for the side of Fletch with an order of Irreversible