Sinister Spotlight: The Last House On The Left with Missy Yearian

Lock the doors! Hide the children! Pray to Cthulhu! Because another installment of the Sinister Spotlight is here again to tickle your eardrums with forbidden horrors and scintillating stories of the horror genre's most loved (and disputed) contributions.

This description is none the more adequate than for today's feature: the controversial 1972 grindhouse shocker The Last House on the Left from Wes Craven. And I couldn't think of a more perfect person to talk about this film with than the hilarious and highly insightful Missy Yearian whose writings have appeared in places as diverse as Classic-Horror, FusedFilm, and her own blog Chickapin Parish. Tackling this film is no easy task, as Missy and I discuss the real-life horror of death and violation, the chemistry of exploitation cinema, and our own growing love for this remarkable little rape-revenge flick.

Stuff your pipes, everybody, because we're about to get all intellectual and Inside the Actor's Studio-like. If you feel yourself growing faint during the grueling duration of this episode, just keep repeating: it is only a podcast, only a podcast, only a podcast...

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