DVD
Last House on Dead End Street

Starring: Steven Morrison, Dennis Crawford, Lawrence Bornman and Janet Sorley
Tartan Grindhouse
RRP: £19.99
TVD 3638
Certificate: 18
Available 22 May 2006


Drug dealer Terry leaves prison determined to make society pay for the way he has been treated. His anger apparently stems from having been made to do as he was told and follow strict rules (It's a hard life, innit!). He collects together a team of sadistic outcasts - including a psychopath named Ken(!), a film camera man stuck in a rut of producing tedious porno flicks, and a couple of women lured by promises of money - to make a film with a difference... it's rubbish! Oh, sorry, I crossed the line between fantasy and reality there for a moment. Anyway, then Terry finds his actors; or perhaps victims would be a more accurate term. But the unwilling actors aren't the only victims. What we finish up with is a free-for-all of human amputation, branding, sawing and drilling...

Complete and utter unmitigated and unadulterated tripe. My word, I've seen some bad films but this has to be one of the worst.

I suppose the original script (what, there was a script?!) had Terry pushing the boundaries of experimental film-making whilst actually making a snuff movie. However, people in weird masks running around shouting and screaming, with a persistent odd electronic soundtrack do not a good movie make, as they say.

The idea here is to try and shock or disgust the viewing audience without any consideration for plot, characterisation and filming techniques. So we get slaughterhouse scenes and lots of string sausages drowned in theatre blood. To call this a film insults 99.9% of films ever made. The cover describes it as "Grindhouse". Well, let me tell you it was certainly a grind watching it. Although this fully uncut version is remastered from the original source materials, the quality is pretty bad throughout (in both senses of the word).

If it doesn't send you into a boredom-induced coma, this 2-disc set contains as extras: Director Roger Watkins Short Films with Commentary, an Original Trailer, Outtakes and Film Notes. One more point: the title Last House on Dead End Street appears to have no relevance to the product.

Ty Power

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