Cunningham after working with him on Together (1971) and once the filmmakers obtained small funding from Hallmark Releasing to make another feature film. Craven developed the film with producer Sean S. When they unwittingly seek refuge in her home, the killers face the vengeance of her parents.Ĭraven based the film on the 1960 Swedish film The Virgin Spring, directed by Ingmar Bergman, which in turn is an adaptation of the Swedish ballad ' Töres döttrar i Wänge'. The film follows Mari Collingwood ( Sandra Peabody), a hippie teenager who is abducted, raped, and tortured by a fugitive family on her seventeenth birthday. The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation horror film written, directed and edited by Wes Craven in his directorial debut.
