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Sorry, this movie sucks

Lack of good storyline.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I am going to keep this one short because I really do not have much to say. This is one of the absolute worst movies I have ever seen in my entire life. I know that it is a cult favorite and usually I gravitate towards these types of movies, hell I liked The August Underground Trilogy, I enjoy movies like The New York Ripper and I even enjoyed Cannibal Cookout and I love exploitation films. I'm a huge fan of Jack Hill, his whole filmography is a huge part of what got me through high school. So I thought that I would have a blast with this one but it was just atrocious. The acting was horrible, absolutely horrible the performances here make The Room look like Oscar winning material, that by far is the worst part. The writing, I mean I'm not expecting Shakespeare what I am expecting at least some level competence but the dialog was so ridiculous and hackneyed oh my god, I can't decide which is worse the acting or the writing. It is laughably stupid, the dialogue is so ridiculous that even Dolemite would be embarrassed by it. It is actually very rare that I don't enjoy movies like this. I've been waiting to see it for years and now that I have, I want that hour and twenty minutes of my life back. This is retarded, plain and simple this movie is retarded. I don't know how it has found this large of an audience, it is just crap. If I could give it a zero star rating, trust me I would.

"Last House On Dead End Street" was allegedly made by an entire cast and crew of heroin addicts, and that definitely helped to make this movie as sleazy and unpleasant as possible. It also helps that none of these people were even identified until 2002. All the credits are actually pseudonyms, mostly the kind of pseudonyms people with dysfunctional brains would logically come up with. Produced by Norman F. Kaiser, directed by Victor Janos, those are the kind of names you come up with when you're 17 and you're trying to buy liquor. It gives this movie plenty of mystique, but it's more than just mystique it has to offer. It's genuinely fairly well-made, stylish and shocking, and it deals with its shortcomings well. All the audio is dubbed in, but while occasionally it looks and sounds like crap it's generally handled pretty well (masking the characters for the ending scenes was a good fetch). The cheap gore effects also look pretty real if you have no idea how effects work, to this day some (badly informed) people still claim this is an actual snuff film. It isn't quite realistic enough to make that mistake, but this is a very grim underground flick. Not the recipe for an all-too-pleasant evening, but it's definitely something you...need to watch? Have to watch? I don't know, but it's a strangely fascinating ride into the darkest pits of filmmaking.

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.

Terry, a drug-dealer recently released from jail, decides to venture into film-making, and sees a possible gap in the market—snuff movies. He and a group of like minded sleaze-bags show their first attempt to a pornographer who is looking for something new to sell to his jaded customers, but are cheated when the smut-peddler releases the film under his own name. They decide to exact revenge by making him and his associates the stars of their next movie.Shot on a shoestring budget, The Last House on Dead End Street is a poorly made 'grindhouse' shocker that has gained much notoriety through the years due to its mysterious origins (the cast and crew all used pseudonyms) and controversial subject matter. With grainy, washed-out visuals, bad dubbing and shaky camera-work, the film achieves a genuinely seedy quality that is befitting of its iffy themes, but even with its convincing atmosphere, exploitative subject matter and and some nasty scenes of gore, I found the whole affair rather disappointing.The first half of the movie is incredibly dull, and a real test of endurance: with some ponderous scenes more akin to an art-house movie than an exploitation film, The Last House on Dead End Street meanders from one dull, badly directed scene to another for what seems like an eternity, before finally delivering the yuck-factor that most viewers have been waiting for.When Terry and his gang of sick reprobates finally mutilate and kill their three victims for the benefit of the camera, the movie lives up to its notorious reputation as one sick little puppy. The first victim is stabbed and kicked to death, and the last is drilled in the eye, but it is the second that receives the most brutal demise. A knife is run all over her face and then her legs are removed with a surgical saw. As a finale, she is opened up with a pair of huge cutters and her organs are removed.The 'snuff' footage is admittedly disturbing, but it doesn't compensate for the wearisome dreck that precedes it, and my final impression of the film was that, whilst it was an interesting curiosity that I was glad I had been able to watch, it just didn't live up to my expectations.