Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

****SPOILERS**** Brutal and sadistic movie about these two New York City parking garage workers Alex & Ricky who invite themselves to this party in the wilds of New Jersey and end up terrorizing the persons there. There's a big surprise at the end of the movie that explains why the two low live creeps were so tolerated by those at the party that almost had them all murdered by Alex & friend. And not only that the reason was in plain sight to those of us watching the film without realizing it until the trap was sprung on them with gut crunching and mind boggling results.The movie plays a lot like if not an actual sequel to the movie where David Hess, who played the vicious and mentally impaired Alex, also starred in as a deranged psycho killer eight years earlier called "Last House on the Left". Here the story follows the same script with "Last House on the Left" of what crimes Alex did that ends up catching up with him. The film goes from the big city of New York to suburban New Jersey as were exposed to a number of crimes that bring everyone, victim and victimizers, together in this upscale house in the middle of nowhere where most of the action in the movie plays itself out.****SPOILERS****At first both Alex and his wimpy partner in crime, he faints at the very sight of blood, Ricky have it all their way brutalizing and raping their helpless victims. There's an added attraction or victim to the two psycho's menu when teenager Cindy unexpectedly shows up at the house. Kidnapped and humiliated by a gleeful Alex he later has the frightened girl strip and instead of raping her slices her up with his straight edge razor, the only weapon he used in the movie, like he was playing a game of tic tact tow on her body! It was what seemed like the most brutalized and helpless of the men held hostage Tom that in the end turned the tables on the two hoods. And with the help of everyone whom they tortured and sexually abused he did a number on them that they, while still alive and breathing, will never ever forget!

I've read others state that this film stayed with them long after watching, and I'm no different. I got this movie as part of a 10 movie horror pack from Wal-mart of all places, several years ago, and it remains one of my favorite horror flicks. Yes, it can be cheesy at points, but the cinematography is very pretty and the movie itself is very eerie. The gore amount is decent without being too over the top. There is ample amounts of nudity, and the rape scene involving the young girl is kind of unsettling. David Hess is amazing at playing a cold-hearted sleazeball. I recommend this film for any fan of 80's horror/sleaze/exploitation.

I found Ruggero Deodato's film The House On The Edge Of The Park to be a good film. It is about a man called Alex (David Hess) who is a thug driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman (Karoline Mardeck) driving alongside him. He follows the woman to a nearby park where he makes her stop the car. Alex gets out of his car, and runs into the young woman's car where he throws her into the back seat and proceeds to savagely rape her before strangling her to death. Later, Alex is with his friend Ricky (Giovanni Lombardo Radice), both of whom work in a local mechanic garage Alex is planning to go a local disco and Ricky is coming along. Suddenly, a large Cadillac pulls into the garage which a young, couple named Tom (Cristian Borromeo) and his girlfriend Lisa (Annie Belle) where they ask for help because their car's motor is making strange sounds. Alex refuses to help them saying that the garage is closed, and continues to refuse assistance even after Tom offers him money. but helps them in the end, making the car run again. Tom tells Alex and Ricky that they are driving to a friend's house in New Jersey for a party, and Alex asks them if he and Ricky could come along, what couple do not no what lies ahead for them. I found this to be a very violent film.

Ruggero Deodato's "La Casa Sperduta Nel Parco" aka. "House On The Edge Of The Park" of 1980 is very obviously a rip-off of Wes Craven's disturbing debut "The Last House On The Left" Of 1972, but it is nevertheless an interesting and disturbing film experience on its own and those familiar with Mr. "Cannibal Holocaust" Deodato will probably not be surprised that this is even more explicit in its sick brutality and violent detail than Craven's film from 8 years earlier.Sleazy thug Alex (David Hess) and his slightly retarded buddy Ricky (Giovanni Lombardo Radice) invite themselves to a party hosted by a couple of rich young snobs after repairing their car. The snobbish party hosts are soon to find out that Alex is a sadistic psycho par-excellence...I am a huge admirer of director Deodato, his brilliant and disturbing masterpiece "Cannibal Holocaust" (also 1980), which has to be seen as the best and most important film of its kind, makes him absolute master of disturbing Horror cinema, and, as far as I am concerned he is way greater a director than Wes Craven. That being said, "The Last House On The Left" is Craven's best movie up to date, and although "House On The Edge Of The Park" is even nastier and more explicit in violent details than it's predecessor, it doesn't come up to Craven's film.Deodato copies the LHOTL plot quite shamelessly, and David Hess (brilliantly) plays a role almost identical to his previous role. The acts of violence in "House On The Edge Of The Park" are even more perverted and intense than in LHOTL, but it failed to move and sadden me the way Craven's film did. The perverted acts of violence are disturbing, all right, but I simply didn't quite feel for the snobbish victims in this, as I did for the innocent girls in "Last House On The Left". While the cruel fate of the girls in Craven's film should disturb and deeply sadden anybody who watches the movie, it is at times hard to care for the decadent party hosts in Deodato's Rip-off. Nevertheless, "House On The Edge Of The Park" is a highly interesting Video Nasty that shouldn't be missed by any fan of cinema of the kind. The acting performances are very good, especially David Hess is (once again) outstanding in the role of the sadistic psychopath. Playing these psycho roles is obviously what Hess was born for, and he he is very believable as he plays the sadistic Alex with disturbing brilliance. Furthermore there is a twist in the end that is unexpected enough to make the story more solid and well-founded (even though not too realistic).All things considered, "House On The Edge Of The Park" does not quite reach the greatness of "Last House On The Left", but it certainly is an interesting and disturbing film that fans of violent exploitation should not miss. Recommended to Deodato-fans and lovers of violent exploitation.