John Podhoretz, Tool

Somehow I'm not surprised this one slipped by the copy editors over at The Weekly Standard:

When a director named Wes Craven made a cheap little movie about a bunch of rednecks turned into monsters by atomic waste called The Hills Have Eyes, he said he had been inspired by the work of the Swedish existentialist filmmaker Ingmar Bergman--particularly The Virgin Spring.

Close, but no cigar Mr. Podhoretz. The cheap film by Wes Craven that he claimed was a remake of The Virgin Spring (or Jungfrukallan as it is listed on the IMDB) was The Last House On The Left. That odious little snuff film had a bunch of Charles Mansonesque hippies terrorizing, torturing, and murdering two teenage girls.

I don't really care for either film myself. However, claiming that Wes Craven said that The Hills Have Eyes was inspired by Ingmar Bergman unfairly stacks the deck in your favor, Mr. Podhoretz.