Today, “The Last House on the Left” debuts in theaters. It’s a remake of Wes Craven’s 1972 movie of the same name. The movie–while infinitely better than the original (which was supposedly making an anti-war statement, but was just torture porn)–is still torture/snuff-porn, and I don’t recommend it (see my reviews of this weekend’s new movies, including “Last House”).

But one point in the movie bears noting–the use and applause for waterboarding.

The story of “Last House” is that of a girl and her friend tortured by a gang of criminals. The girl (Sara Paxton, who “graduated” from kids’ show “Darcy’s Wild Life” to snuff-porn–talk about regressing) is raped and left for dead. When her parents discover that the people they welcomed into their house are the perpetrators, they take revenge.

Among the revenge mechanisms the parents employ to kill these thugs is waterboarding. They waterboard one of the thugs in the kitchen sink (and do something else far more disturbing–a stunt that criminals committed in the William Devane vehicle, “Rolling Thunder“). I watched the audience rightfully applaud this. The guy was a brutal killer and accessory to rape. He deserved it. It’s the true justice we rarely see in our clogged, broken “justice” system. And I remember that the audience also applauded when Wesley Snipes waterboarded a (non-Muslim) terrorist hijacker in the airplane toilet in “Passenger 57.” He deserved it, too, and Snipes was trying to save the people on the flight.

So, I ask myself (and you), why do Hollywood liberals applaud the use of waterboarding on a criminal thug who only tortured and/or murdered two women and on a non-Muslim airplane hijacker, yet it’s not okay to do it to men like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who murdered 3,000 Americans and knows of future plans to snuff out many more?

Yeah, I know, it’s “only a movie.”

But if it’s so bad and so noxious to Hollywood libs, maybe they should try to take it out of movies on which they make oodles of money, the way they’re being urged to do with smoking.

And if it’s so bad, why do American audiences cheer when criminal thug murderers get deservedly waterboarded onscreen? They cheer because they support it. This is what America wants us to do to save lives.

And I say, before President Obama closes Gitmo, let’s install a special “Passenger 57” airplane toilet (and a “Last House on the Left” kitchen sink). We can send Wesley Snipes there to do his dirty work and work off the taxes he evaded (for which he was prosecuted).

That’s a criminal sentence I’d support.