Wes Craven on how he was surprised by the success of ‘The Last House on the Left’ (1972) and the audience’s reaction to it: “Interviewer: Were you surprised by the film’s success? Wes Craven: Absolutely. I never expected anybody to go see it. We were doing it on a ten-cent budget, and I’d never made a film before—never directed, not even edited a whole feature. We never expected anything that big. But all of a sudden it just took off. I was living in a commune on the Lower East Side, living on s