In the seventies Craven’s The Last House on the Left spawned a series of italian rip-offs including movies like Hitch Hike, Late Night Trains, Terror Express, The House on the Edge of the Park, Pleasure Shop on the 7th Avenue.
One of the better ones is Franco Prosperi’s La settima donna (The Last House on the Beach aka Terror, 1978).
A group of teenage girls, under the tutelage of a nun, are rehearisng a theatre-play in a lonley house located on a sea-cliff. The idyll is soon interrupted by the arrival of three violent bank-robbers on the run.
That is the basic premise. Not a great story there, but who cares. What you get here is a pure exploitation movie with lots of sleaze, violence and sadism thrown in.
Prosperi’s La settima donna is a prime example of italian genre cinema of the late seventies.
The movie stars Florinda Bolkan (Fulci’s Don’t torture a Duckling and A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin) and Ray Lovelock (Let sleeping corpses lie, Almost Human). By the way, this is NOT the same Franco Prosperi, who co-directed such mondo-gems as Mondo Cane (1962) and Africa Addio (1966).
Originally slated for release at October the 23rd, the disc will now be released by Sazuma (in their Italian Genre Cinema Collection) as a two-disc set with the film’s original Soundtrack on a separate audio CD in early 2007.
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Last House on the Beach - German Trailer (downloadable quicktime)
The Dude abides