THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT — REBOOT

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By definition, any update of Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left" is sure to be a schlock fest.

Greek director Dennis Iliadis uses every trick in the book to ramp up suspense and deliver shout-at-the-screen shocks from Adam Alleca's and Carl Ellsworth's straight-forward script about violent retribution for crimes committed.

When the Collingwood family of three go for a holiday at their lakeside house, swim champ daughter Mari (Sara Paxton) takes the family car into town to visit her feisty gal pal Paige (Martha Maclsaac).

The promise of good marijuana lures the pair into the clutches of evil-doers that includes a prison escapee, his teenage son, a femme fatal, and a spitting-mad murderer.

Audiences familiar with Craven's original know there will be an especially nasty rape scene — here constructed as a kind of group sex be-in. Payback comes from Mari's mom (Monica Potter) and pop (Tony Goldwyn) when the gang that brutalized their daughter shows up at the family lake house in need of medical treatment and shelter. As an exploitation B-horror movie, this latest addition to the genre is heads and shoulders above anything Rob Zombie has ever done.

Rated R. 109 mins.