This is going to be short.
I was even considering just putting the word "shit" in massive letters, and leaving it at that but if anyone actually reads these things, they deserve better...
Guy gets out of jail, decides he wants to make exciting new movies, teams up with a washed out porn-director and a bunch of weirdos and makes snuff films. That's it. That's the whole movie.
It's incredibly non-linear (apparently cut down and shuffled from its original edit) and very badly dubbed - seriously, the worst dubbing I've ever seen (inexplicably, given that it was already in English).
The gore that we do see is unconvincing but most of it (and this is a movie about making snuff films, remember) happens off screen.
It tries its best to build an atmosphere, and with a better... Everything else, may have succeeded.
I will say this for it though; it's probably the only time you'll see a man being forced to fellatiate a deer's foot as it hangs from the fly of a topless woman's jeans.
I think I've made this sound more interesting that it is...
Showing posts with label Last House on Dead End Street - The. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Last House on Dead End Street - The. Show all posts
Saturday, 13 April 2013
The Last House on Dead End Street - Lisa's Review
*** SPOILERS ***
So having just watched this weeks movie the question is... how the hell am I going to review this one? I could write the review in 2 words if you like?
Monumentally Crap!!
Not good enough? Meh, I expected as much. Ok, lets start with a basic premis..We have a guy get out of prison and rather than stick to making porn movies, which is what he is used to, he decides to make snuff movies. He wants "something real, thats never been done before, something with action". Thats pretty much it I'm afraid. Yup, I kid you not!
He teams up with a band of rather tasteless individuals (both male and female) and they proceed to kidnap, torture and kill 4 individuals. Why these people pander to his every whim is anyones guess. They are indeed very weird folk and indulge in some odd pastimes, but its a bit of a step to go from orgies and S&M to actual torture and murder.
The only remotely creepy thing about this movie is the masks worn during the torture/kill scenes. I never have liked those semi-transparent masks with features drawn on, which is what we see here. There is also a rather odd 'statue-like' head. I didn't really get the validity of that.
The gorey bits are are slow and dull as the rest of the movie. It all drags and makes you want to press the fast forward button. It seemed to me something that teenage boys (and I mean really young teenage boys) may enjoy if they discovered it on the TV and weren't supposed to be watching it. It has quite a bit of female nudity so boobies aplenty and I suppose there is quite a bit of blood in places, but it was one big yawnfest for me from start to finish.
Everything about it annoyed me, from the dated and irritating voice-over at the start of the movie where our main man (anti-hero if you will) explains what he's thinking, whats been going on, where he's going.... to the idiotic echoey whispering scene that forces me to actually concentrate on this dross to work out what was being said (and I still missed half of it).
Ok, so there are boobs, there is blood, there are intestines being flung about, there are amputations, there's even a drill to the eye (at least I think it was the eye), but I think this movie may have doubled as extra sleeping pills for me this evening.
There is no point to it, no message, no storyline to speak of apart from what I've described.
Do yourself a favour... don't waste your time!
So having just watched this weeks movie the question is... how the hell am I going to review this one? I could write the review in 2 words if you like?
Monumentally Crap!!
Not good enough? Meh, I expected as much. Ok, lets start with a basic premis..We have a guy get out of prison and rather than stick to making porn movies, which is what he is used to, he decides to make snuff movies. He wants "something real, thats never been done before, something with action". Thats pretty much it I'm afraid. Yup, I kid you not!
He teams up with a band of rather tasteless individuals (both male and female) and they proceed to kidnap, torture and kill 4 individuals. Why these people pander to his every whim is anyones guess. They are indeed very weird folk and indulge in some odd pastimes, but its a bit of a step to go from orgies and S&M to actual torture and murder.
The only remotely creepy thing about this movie is the masks worn during the torture/kill scenes. I never have liked those semi-transparent masks with features drawn on, which is what we see here. There is also a rather odd 'statue-like' head. I didn't really get the validity of that.
The gorey bits are are slow and dull as the rest of the movie. It all drags and makes you want to press the fast forward button. It seemed to me something that teenage boys (and I mean really young teenage boys) may enjoy if they discovered it on the TV and weren't supposed to be watching it. It has quite a bit of female nudity so boobies aplenty and I suppose there is quite a bit of blood in places, but it was one big yawnfest for me from start to finish.
Everything about it annoyed me, from the dated and irritating voice-over at the start of the movie where our main man (anti-hero if you will) explains what he's thinking, whats been going on, where he's going.... to the idiotic echoey whispering scene that forces me to actually concentrate on this dross to work out what was being said (and I still missed half of it).
Ok, so there are boobs, there is blood, there are intestines being flung about, there are amputations, there's even a drill to the eye (at least I think it was the eye), but I think this movie may have doubled as extra sleeping pills for me this evening.
There is no point to it, no message, no storyline to speak of apart from what I've described.
Do yourself a favour... don't waste your time!
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Week 99: The Last House on Dead End Street
Alternate Titles : Fun House, The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
Year: 1973 (made) 1977 (released)
Reviews / Author Comments due: 13/04/2013
Reason for Inclusion: It's believed that this film was intended to be placed on the DPP list but, thanks to it's alternate title, Tobe Hooper's "The Funhouse" was accidentally put on the list on its behalf.
BBFC Status: Passed uncut in 2006
DVD: LINK
Feel free to use the comments section of this post to add your own reviews and thoughts about this movie.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)