Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
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34% want to see it
(1,511 ratings)
This notorious exercise in low-budget gore is poorly edited and photographed, but its catalogue of horrors and a genuinely nasty tone make it worthwhile for fans of sick cinema. Vowing revenge on the society which put him behind bars, Terry Hawkins (Steven Morrison) begins making pornographic films… More This notorious exercise in low-budget gore is poorly edited and photographed, but its catalogue of horrors and a genuinely nasty tone make it worthwhile for fans of sick cinema. Vowing revenge on the society which put him behind bars, Terry Hawkins (Steven Morrison) begins making pornographic films for a group of rich decadents, who watch them at orgies. When the jaded Steve (Alex Kregar) complains of boredom, he is kidnapped by Hawkins and his Charles Manson-like gang. The crazed killers force Steve to suck a deer's hoof which a leather-freak named Ken (Dennis Crawford) has placed in his zipper, then they show a snuff film of his friend Nancy (Barbara Amunsen) being murdered. In the film, Nancy's face is slashed repeatedly with a pen-knife, her legs are amputated with a hacksaw, and her stomach is gutted with a pair of hedge-clippers before she is cannibalized. The horrified Steve has his eye drilled out as the film ends with a voice-over stating that the murderers are now in jail. Although it is certainly repulsive, Last House on Dead End Street is not a real snuff film, as some rumors have claimed. The special effects are obviously low-rent, and not particularly convincing, but are vile enough to keep the film interesting. Among other sights awaiting brave viewers are: cows being bled to death in a slaughterhouse, a hunchback whipping a woman in blackface, a blind man being strangled, a woman branded with a hot iron before having her throat slashed, and a vicious beating. One of the more graphic examples of the Manson subgenre, this horror film is for specialized tastes only. The director of the picture is actually Roger Watkins, helming under the pseudonym Victor Janos. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
- Directed By
- Roger Watkins
- Genres
- Drama, Horror
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Critic Reviews
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Anton Bitel, Film4
the dull deleted scenes suggest that Watkins' original 175-minute version of the film really did require the severe cutting that it eventually received, and for reasons unconnected to censorship.
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Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com
Well, here's a toxic little item.
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Anton Bitel, Film4
dirt cheap and deeply flawed, but still worth enduring; for even if the deaths are faked, there's a real enough intelligence behind it all.
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Eric Campos, Film Threat
Barrel Entertainment has done it again.
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Alan Simpson, Sex Gore Mutants
a very gratifying slice of brutal exploitation film making
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