The Last House on the Left (2009 film)
The film was released on March 13, 2009. "The Last House on the Left" was met with mixed reviews from critics. Audience opinion ranked the film at a "B" level, from a scale of "A to F"; the film would ultimately gross $45,286,228 worldwide.
Scream queen
Sandra Peabody who portrayed Mari Collingwood in "The Last House on the Left" (1972), Marilyn Burns who portrayed Sally Hardesty in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974), Olivia Hussey who portrayed Jess Bradford in "Black Christmas" (1974), and Jamie Lee Curtis who portrayed Laurie Strode in "Halloween" (1978) were the four actresses of the 1970s that became the seminal examples of the label for the decade. After "The Last House on the Left", Peabody went on to appear in the horror films "Voices of Desire" (1972), "Massage Parlor Murders" (1973), "Case of the Full Moon Murders" (1973), and "Legacy of Satan" (1974). Burns followed her performance in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with roles in "Helter Skelter" (1976) and "Eaten Alive" (1977). In "Halloween", Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of "Psycho" actress Janet Leigh, had her first film role. Portraying Laurie Strode in "Halloween", Curtis established herself as the "ultimate 'scream queen'" and was even referenced as such in the horror film "Scream" (1996) by Randy Meeks. Curtis went on to star in several other horror films after that, two of them being "The Fog" and "", in both of which she appears with Leigh.