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The Last House on the Beach (1978)

The Last House on the Beach poster
Original title
La settima donna
Directed by
Franco Prosperi
Genre
exploitation film, nunsploitation, rape and revenge film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
18
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of criminals take refuge in a remote beach house and terrorize a group of nuns living there. The women fight back and seek revenge against their attackers.

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What happens

The Last House on the Beach (Italian: La settima donna, also known as Terror and The Seventh Woman) is a 1978 Italian rape and revenge-thriller film directed by Franco Prosperi. The American title refers to Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas stated how "combining the nunsploitation subgenre with rape-revenge, the film deviates plot-wise from The Last House on the Left substantially, but arrives at a similar ethical conclusion". It was argued that the final scene of the movie inspired the final scene in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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