Last House on Dead End Street
The original three-hour-long version of the film, titled "The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell", was screened in 1973, and purportedly caused theater riots in New York City and Chicago. It was claimed that the theater in Chicago was burned down. The following year, the film had a brief release under the title "The Fun House". In 1977, it was released yet again, through Cinematic Releasing Corporation, under its most widely known title, "Last House on Dead End Street", a play on the title of the Wes Craven film "The Last House on the Left" (1972). Both of these later releases of the film were significantly shorter, running 78 minutes, as opposed to the original 175 minutes.
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The remake-era peaked in 2009 under releases of "My Bloody Valentine", "Friday the 13th", "The Last House on the Left", "Sorority Row", "The Stepfather" and "Halloween II"; of those, "Friday the 13th" was most successful selling 8.7 million tickets and "Sorority Row" was least successful with under 1.6 million tickets sold. The following year "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (2010), like the "Friday the 13th" remake, had a large opening weekend but quickly fell off the box office charts after. Straight-to-video remakes "Mother's Day" (2010), "Silent Night" (2012) and "" (2013) were met with little reception or praise; "Curse of Chucky" (2013), a sequel (with elements of a reboot) of the "Child's Play" franchise and the first entry not released in theaters, was well-received and given a sequel of its own in 2017. The reboot "Texas Chainsaw 3D" (2013) acts as a sequel to the 1974 original film, but lackluster box office profits led to its prequel "Leatherface" (2017) to a direct-to-download release ("Leatherface" was filmed in 2015 but shelved for two years).