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Summary: You Bet Your ... This Is For Real
Review: This is sadly not the 175 min. cut, but still a damn good movie. I just saw it last night and i must say this movie really kick['s] ... the first 15 min. of the movie was very slow and boring, but then it starts.. and when it does.... the rest of the movie is one big bloodbath. the movie is really great and gory, you should make sure that you're not alone the first time you see it :-)
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Summary: Brutal, Bleak Early 70s Nihilism
Review: This is true independent film making. Most of the budget went on sustaining Mr Watkins' crystal meth habit. The non-actors worked freely and were film studies students. This information and more is given in the DVD extras and lavish accompanying booklet.
This film raised all sorts of issues for me. Is it such an uncomfortable experience because of Mr Watkins' real life drug addiction of despite it? He has a real presence on screen, like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. It seems it was a tense production. One of the crew reveals that he went to Watkins' home shortly after the film was finished and observed various fist sized holes in the wall. Watkins states that when the 3 hour version was screened for the cast and crew it was met with "stunned silence". Watkins also states his crystal meth use continued for 2 years after the film, before ending with the onset of psychosis.
The short films are good also, as is the commentary by Chas Balun and Watkins, which is one of the most entertaining audio commentaries I've ever heard. I hope Watkins starts making more films.
It reminded me a bit of that other improvised movie Fando & Lis, which also caused riots where it was shown, also of some of Richard Kern's short films, in particular You Killed Me First.
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Summary: I am God sometimes, I see my soul...IT IS A FLAME!
Review: This movie made God (myself) weep. Actually, I didn't cry, but I am God. I love this movie now, just as I love each and every one of you. There's an illustration of me in one of your children's books. I'm the one with the brownish tinted skin...sometimes children sit on my knee as I rock-out and act beneficial to those around me. This movie is very much like something I would show one of my children (I have many). Send me money. Terry Hawkins is the answer.
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Summary: Excellent. Bravo to Barrel Entertainment!
Review: This release of Last House On Dead End Street, is quite possibly the best DVD release in my entire collection. Barrel Entertainment really put a lot of effort into this release, and it shows. This is probably the best print of the film that you're likely to see anywhere, and the extras and booklet are simply amazing. And if you are a rare horror fan, like me, then you'll truely love this release. Why? Because it contains the complete disembowlment scene, (or the surgery scene as it is also known.) It's all here, in all of its gruesome glory. So unless you have some way of finding the 175 minute cut of this film, this DVD is definately something you should pick up. Trust me, its very worth the money.
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Summary: a no-budget movie- and it adds to the fear...
Review: Well, if you're even looking this one up you probably know more about this than I could tell you. But let me tell you then about how I reacted to this film. For the first twenty minutes or so I was sitting there thinking 'what is this crud' and for the last twenty minutes I was scared out of my skull. A disturbing little film to this day, it originally ran just under three hours with the title "Hell of the Cuckoo Clocks", but a few years later it would become the film you see here. The lack of anything like a budget actually adds to the snuff film ambience, giving you a film that you need to shower off afterwards. Made by Roger Watkins, whose literature background went instead for something that was more postmodern than your average horror flicks playing at the time, and whose leanings therefore create an even more disturbing sense by the fact that there is no barometer for points of reference to other horror flix, leading this film to be Believable. Literate, angry, topical... Cross the Findlays with Ed Saunders, and this is probably what you'd wind up with. Not pretty but not stupid. Those looking for a good kitchy B movie should go elsewhere; this one's got a kick like a mule.
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Summary: a no-budget movie- and it adds to the fear...
Review: Well, if you're even looking this one up you probably know more about this than I could tell you. But let me tell you then about how I reacted to this film. For the first twenty minutes or so I was sitting there thinking 'what is this crud' and for the last twenty minutes I was scared out of my skull. A disturbing little film to this day, it originally ran just under three hours with the title "Hell of the Cuckoo Clocks", but a few years later it would become the film you see here. The lack of anything like a budget actually adds to the snuff film ambience, giving you a film that you need to shower off afterwards. Made by Roger Watkins, whose literature background went instead for something that was more postmodern than your average horror flicks playing at the time, and whose leanings therefore create an even more disturbing sense by the fact that there is no barometer for points of reference to other horror flix, leading this film to be Believable. Literate, angry, topical... Cross the Findlays with Ed Saunders, and this is probably what you'd wind up with. Not pretty but not stupid. Those looking for a good kitchy B movie should go elsewhere; this one's got a kick like a mule.
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Summary: Good golly!
Review: What a treat to finally be able to see this movie when for many years I only read about it in horror and exploitation magazines!How is it?A very deranged flick,like a cross between a Charles Manson home movie and an H.G. Lewis gore epic(BLOOD FEAST,etc)with some David Lynch thrown in.This 2 dvd set is awesome,with extras galore giving a clearer understanding of this one-of-a-kind creepfest.
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