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TIL the 2009 movie The Last House on the Left is a remake of the 1972 movie of the same name, based on the 1960 movie The Virgin Spring, based on Töres döttrar i Wänge (1812), a Ballad, remake of a longer version from 1673, which is the backstory of why the church of Kärna (1100s) has been built.

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