UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

grimsbybkk 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

pyromanticways I bought the "2 disc collector's edition" (Tartan) of this infamous pseudo-snuff movie (I tried to watch an awful DivX copy of it before, but it was barely watchable and I gave up). I must say I expected much more from it. I found the first 45 minutes quite boring and lame; the last killings get graphic and "imaginative" though. The 2nd disc contains useless outtakes (with no audio) and 4 short films, which are not bad, especially "Ron Rico". All 4 short films have no soundtrack but a commentary (very funny at times, but dull after a while), I guess mainly due to the songs they original used, they didn't have copyrights for.

ElijahCSkuggs It's not often I'm disappointed by a gritty, disturbing flick. Hell, I can probably count them on one hand. Well, looks like I got another one. Last House on Dead End Street, has been repped to me by a number of people. And I have no clue why. It may be one of the first snuff- based stories out there, but hell, that doesn't make it a good one.It's just so, damn, dull. It took me three attempts to finish it actually. Usually I enjoy the grit and the grime movies give off, but this is just something completely different. It felt like these people embodied grit. Sh!t, and I would be one to say that is a cool thing to say about characters in a flick. Man, I'm confusing myself. It was just a very uninteresting, and uneventful flick. When things took place, you didn't give a damn. Well, I didn't give a damn, or a sh!t.The movie wasn't a total bust afterall though. I did appreciate some of the camera-work. It was amateurish, but once in a while they'd hit this noir-type cinematography that looked pretty cool and stylish. But it was most likely just a fluke luck shot. And even though I disliked almost every single character I did like the lead, a little. The raspy voice, the alright delivery, the sketchy look...it worked.LHonDES is a hardcore flick. It's perverse, gritty, amateurish, and just a tough watch. But it's a tough watch for all the wrong reasons. And surprisingly, not a single scene of the snuff shots were even slightly disturbing. But again, it's a flick for a specific crowd. Even if you call yourself a fan of gritty exploit flicks, beware, this still may not be for you.

Michael_Elliott Last House on Dead End Street (1972) * 1/2 (out of 4) Infamous and notorious horror film that most people have only heard about instead of seen. This was put the rest with the DVD of course. A film student (Roger Watkins) gets out of jail and returns to the world of making porn but this isn't paying the bills so he, along with some twisted friends, decide to start making snuff films. The history of this film is actually a lot more entertaining than the actual film. The original version ran 180-minutes but couldn't find a distributor but the film was released behind the director's back under the current title to cash in on Wes Craven's film. This version ran just under 80-minutes and the longer cut is lost forever. Perhaps something more was in that longer cut but this one here is rather poor. In some ways I guess the film works since it was shot for $1,500. The bad acting, bad lighting and bad cinematography adds to a "snuff" film look but this is rather annoying and sometimes hard to watch. Director Watkins should have stayed behind the camera because he's very annoying in the lead role as well. The music score is very good and the gore scenes (some rumored to be real) are great but the film didn't do too much for me.