Question: where was the last house on the left 2009 filmed

title: The Last House on the Left (2009 film)
text: The San Francisco Chronicle 's Peter Hartlaub felt the remake departed from the traditional template used by more recent remakes -- `` include twice as many kills , ( find ) boring young actors from TV shows , rewrite the script so you lose everything interesting about the original , ( and ) make up an excuse to add cell phones '' -- which ultimately made it far more effective . Hartlaub cited the script , which he felt devoted as much time to character development as `` carnage '' , and the `` good acting '' , particularly Tony Goldwyn , as reasons why this remake succeeds . Kyle Smith , of the New York Post , agreed that the film succeeded where other remakes had failed . For Smith , it was the replacement of the `` quick - cutting , loud noises and camera tricks '' clichés with `` long takes , genuinely disturbing violence and stretches with no dialogue to pin you to the story '' , which made this film more effective . Smith also commended Dillahunt 's acting , as well as Iliadis 's `` casual , matter - of - fact approach that multiplies the horror to an almost unbearable level '' . In contrast , USA Today 's Claudia Puig stated that director Dennis Iliadis failed at trying to keep the film from becoming another `` torture porn '' . Puig felt that the killing scenes were too drawn out , noting the technique was down to heighten the effect , but actually comes across more as `` repugnant and fetishized violence '' . She also noted that the parents seemed to find enjoyment in exacting their revenge , even when their daughter lay dying in the next room . Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News was in agreement with Puig when he referred to the film as `` stomach - churningly anti-human '' because of its violence , and questioned why Goldwyn and Potter even signed on to the film . Neumaier suggests that the film 's violence fails to create the sense of `` theatricality of the Saw or Hostel films '' , or even provide audiences with `` the unkillable - monster nostalgia of ( the ) Friday the 13th re-do '' . Neumaier also states that the 2009 film lacks the reasoning to exist that Craven 's 1972 original had , which was to push the `` boundaries of cinema 's new permissiveness '' .