You won't be disappointed!

Wow! Such a good movie.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is what I call a guilty pleasure movie it's not something to be proud to like even if you are a fan. Terry Hawkins who just got out of jail goes to a collage to make student films Terry and his crew work on Extreme movies with no limit. The first half of the movie is the film crew working on and viewing shocking short films filled with sex and violence one movie is of a slaughter house cows getting hung up and cut another one is two girls making out and a dog walks by the scene. There's an S&m movie with a woman in black-face gets whipped a young child is carrying the whip for the man to whip her. One of the members of Terrys group wants to make new versions of stag films it's 50 Min's in that the movie becomes a horror and Terry really goes over the edge. The sounds and voice's echo like there in sound room the lighting is so dark the if someone is in a dark room you can hardly see them it's also on of the seediest grungiest movies i have every seen but it has some good in it and it's just what it wants to be. This movie had some controversy when it came out people thought it might cause some people to commit crimes maybe it would if they were unstable to begin with.

Reading the reviews here I can't help but notice there hasn't been a recent one for some time. Here goes. The plot is as follows: A newly released convict with a big chip on his shoulder against society ropes in a couple of old friends and some Manson Family type females to make snuff movies and proceeds to do just that. This movie has more than a few W.T.F scenes which easily place it higher than the usual grind house fare of the seventies, some of these scenes are just plain bizarre with the whipping of a young lady dressed in a maids outfit with her face covered in black and white mistral make-up by a dwarf!!!. The atmosphere of violent misanthropy and amphetamine abuse which this movie is saturated in is powerful to say the least, the rage filled moment when the lead character kicks a director to death while screaming "I'm the ******* director here" is particularly memorable. But what I came away with most from this movie was the sheer strangeness of it all. The very early primitive-synthesizer soundtrack really is creepily effective. The otherworldly behavior of the Manson family type girls is disturbing and the Greek Mythological masks the characters wear while torturing and killing their victims hint at something deeper, more thought provoking and just plain scarier than other movies of this ilk. Even the opening sequence/trailer with the revolving screaming head jumps at you. And this movies' history, where for almost 2 decades it was all but lost with the names in the opening and closing title sequences being pseudonyms leading to the idea that this movie really was a snuff movie help give this film it's undoubted uniqueness. Some of the oddness can be explained by the fact that in it's uncut form this movie was about 3 hrs long!!! and it's original title was the "Cuckoo Clocks from Hell" But unfortunately this version remains and will probably always remain lost. Ahhhh we can but hope it will turn up in a New York warehouse until then buy a 6 pack stick the DVD in your player and sit back and enjoy this hallucinogenic scare flick

Almost TOO sick and TOO depraved for words, this mean-spirited and hideously edited US exploit-flick! It might be called pure cult cinema with an enormous shock-value, still this questionable reputation can't hide the fact that "Last House on Dead End Street" is a nearly unendurable film and that you'll need at least three very long showers to wash away the dirty feeling after seeing it. All you ever read about this film is true. It's definitely a true statement that the on screen gore is ultimately gross and that the tone of the film is disturbingly nihilistic & offensive. Now, I don't have a problem with that (on the contrary, I even pro-actively search for this type of films), but I do think there should at least be a point to the violence or some sort of moral that needs to be made clear to the audience. "Last House on Dead End Street" has neither. It's just 80 harsh minutes of insane violence and nasty images of horrible looking set pieces. The plot is as simple as it is irrelevant, and handles about a misanthropist ex-con who mobilizes his former friends to help him make porn movies and earn some extra money. When he discovers that people are only interested in extreme shocks and snuff nowadays, the whole gang goes berserk and complete their film with the rich clients as real-life victims. The first half of the film is surprisingly dull and just plain awful, with some really amateurish attempts to provide the characters (that you couldn't feel less connected to) with a background and really ugly camera-work. The second half is full of gory sickness but still as awful as the first; perhaps even more so. During one of the most notorious sequences in horror-history, both a woman's legs are brutally sawn off while she's kept conscious with medication. The reason for that is that she can witness later how her stomach is cut open with a huge pair of pliers and how the intestines get removed and proudly shown to her. Sick enough for ya? "Last House on Dead End Street" could have been a truly nightmarish experience if everything (apart from the human guts) didn't look so damn fake! Especially the acting, but also the clumsy camera-work and lighting are so amateurish that it's nearly impossible to let this film affect you. Admirers (and, believe me, there are a lot of them) use the cheapness as an argument to claim that it only increases the genuine exploitation feel to it, but I strongly disagree. I've seen enough exploitation movies that are stylish and convincing DESPITE the limitations in budget. I wouldn't advise anyone to see this film (apart from some personal enemies, perhaps) but if your curiosity becomes too hard to resist, you can always purchase the brand new double-disc special edition on DVD. But do yourself a favor and wait at least three hours after you had dinner.

The Last House on Dead End Street starts as Terry Hawkins (editor, writer, producer & director Roger Michael Watkins as Steven Morrison) is released from a New York State penitentiary after serving a year for the possession & sale of dangerous drugs, he is somewhat bitter & twisted at having the last year of his life taken away & decides to do something for which he will be remembered. He was once an amateur porn filmmaker & sees this as a way to make some money & leave a lasting impression on society... Terry recruits four other misfits, a cow molesting slaughterhouse worker named Ken Hardy (cinematographer Ken Fisher as Dennis Crawford), a young & easily impressionable cameraman Bill Drexel (Bill Schlageter as Lawrence Bornman) plus two desperate for money women named Kathy Hughes (Kathy Curtin as Janet Sorely) & Patricia Kuhn (Pat Canestro as Elaine Norcross). Together they lure four unsuspecting porn peddler's, the money-man Steve Randall (Steve Sweet as Alex Kregar), husband & wife Jim (Edward E. Pixley as Franklin Statz) & Nancy Palmer (Nancy Vrooman as Barbara Amunsen) plus porn actress Suzie Knowles (Suzie Neumeyer as Geraldine Saunders) to a abandoned house where Terry & his crew intends to make a snuff film with Steve & company the unwilling stars...Edited as Brian Newett, written as Brian Laurence, produced as Norman F. Kaiser, directed as Victor Janos by & starring Roger Michael Watkins The Last House on Dead End Street is about as notorious as they come but thanks to the wonder of DVD you can make your own mind up whether it lives up to that notorious reputation because it's no longer a problem to see as it has had uncut special editions released both in the US & Europe. It was filmed in 1973 but not released until 1977 & all the credits are pseudonym's while up until 2000 no one publicly admitted to making this film. For a start I have to say right away that I really liked The Last House on Dead End Street, it's unique, raw & powerful stuff that had me gripped. At less than 80 minutes long it moves at a fair pace, it's never boring & is nothing if not fascinating & unsettling to watch. The way it's made, the dialogue, the run down seedy locations, the extreme nature of the story & some of the nasty mutilation that is regularly splashed across the screen. I can't remember seeing another film like it & I'm sure The Last House on Dead End Street will be very tough for a lot of people to sit through, it deals with porn, snuff film making & a bunch of sadistic degenerates so if this type of thing sounds appealing & you have the stomach then give it a go, for those with more conservative tastes stay as far from this as possible as it will offend, upset & disturb you. Personally I thought it was great & it's as simple & straight forward as that.Director Watkins does what he can I suppose but while most would call The Last House on Dead End Street amateurish & badly made it is for this reason alone that it had such impact, the whole thing really does look like a homemade film with scratchy, jerky, grainy photography & considering the sleazy & seedy subject matter in context it works absolutely brilliantly. The gore is rough & extreme in places, there is a scene in a slaughterhouse where a cow is sliced open, someone has a drill put in their eye, there are intestines & blood galore, stabbings, beatings & the real showstopper where a woman is tied to a table & has her face sliced open, her legs sawn off at which point they revive her with smelling salts & then has her stomach carved open & her guts pulled out in a really nasty & gruesome scene that turns into a test of endurance.Apparently The Last House on Dead End Strret had a budget of $1,500 so expect it to be a little rough around the edges but as I've said I actually think the roughness helps the film & it's atmosphere, the special effects are surprisingly good. The acting varies but for the most part it's surprisingly effective.The Last House on Dead End Street certainly isn't for everyone that's for sure, but for exploitation fans this is an absolute must. Disturbing, highly effective, morally reprehensible, sick & twisted, I liked it. Although the title is very similar to Wes Cravens The Last House on the Left (1972) the two films are very different.