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Last House on Dead End Street [DVD] [1973] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

3.5 out of 5 stars 6 customer reviews

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  • Language: English
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000687C6
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 212,375 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Format: DVD
I first discovered this little slasher-classic whilst trying to track down an uncut copy of "last house on the left" and after researching various "rave reviews!" on the net I decided to purchase...
Oh boy I'm glad I did, because this is proof-positive of the failure of modern technology to transfer something this "low quality" to DVD.
If you like your films to appear as if the negative has been used as the lining of a canary's cage, then this one is for you!
The plot is nothing short of non-existent, basically it goes like this....
First time director makes "extra-real" horror movies that turn out to be real,
That'll do me!, what exactly do you expect from a film entitled "The last house on dead-end street"
I loved it!, from begining to end non-stop weirdness, total gore, bad script, face masks for no apparent reason and to top it off!!! I can hardly contain myself,
A woman in black & white minstrel makeup being whipped by a drunk guy in a plaid suite doing a Quasimodo impression!!!!
Does it get any better!!!!!!!
OK CALM NOW!
Anyway and so to the actual DVD...
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Written, directed, produced and staring Roger Watkins (he used the pseudonym Victor Janos for this title), in 1973, but not released until later - he had only previously (and subsequently) made porn movies, Last House on Dead End Street is a gruelling piece of cinema. This is not to say that the gore (or special effects), are of particular note, but that it is, in the essence of the film, an incredibly hateful, almost evil one, that pervades the raw material of the cheep 16mm home-style movie cameras. The title was a cash-in, by distributors, of the success of The Last House on the Left (1972), but was previously named The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, and The Funhouse. The film poster also "used" the ...on the Left tag line: 'It's only a movie....only a movie'.

Terry Hawkins (played by Watkins), is a pornographer, who wants to film something new, something different. He settles on the idea of making a snuff movie. It would be quite an epic, as Hawkins finds a derelict mansion, with many empty rooms, decaying and dank. He invites friends over to 'make a movie' - albeit people who had f****d him off in some way. They are humiliated, abused, and many don't survive. Hawkins is the "snuff" movie director, barking a vicious hate from his very soul (this is quite tense and realistic acting from the actor). You can believe these excruciating scenes seem painfully real, as Watkins/Hawkins genuinely excretes animosity, to the other actors, to the audience. At moments during the filming, another cameraman would move the lens of his 16mm camera towards the screen we see. The audience is almost made implicit to the horrific torture played out on screen, the camera now staring into your eyes, watching you viewing gruesome terror.

The film has many of these harsh and morally contentious moments.
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Considering the low budget this grind-house classic has lots character and it manages to achieve some truly bleak and nihilistic moments, whilst the acting and editing are clearly is not great what it does do is create a real sense of claustrophobia, insanity and weirdness throughout the second half of the film, most of the characters spend most of the time either laughing hysterically, swapping masks and whispering during what are very well staged ritualistic murder set pieces that have a bizarre visceral and almost art-house surreal quality to them, one of a kind a real find if you like 70's horror.
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