S&A Double Feature: BERGMAN AND CRAVEN - THE MEETING OF MINDS
THE VIRGIN SPRING - DIRECTED BY INGMAR BERGMAN 1960 THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT - DIRECTED BY WES CRAVEN 1972 This September and October I'm going to be on a Craven Kick. Wes Craven was the thoughtful Master of Horror. His movies, not matter how schlocky they seemed were reflective and with an ideas weaved into the spine. Throughout his career, Craven reinvented Horror multiple times with the likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream . His first full length narrative film, The Last House on the Left has a notorious reputation, one of those movies that leans in too far and presses the thumb on the nerve too hard, but at the same time incredibly important in the shaping of the Horror genre in the 1970s. It's one of those movies I have been avoiding. So I decided to have a Schlock and Awe Double with The Last House on the Left and Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring from 1960. Both The Virgin Spring and The Last House on t...