Released from prison, after having served a sentence for selling drugs, Terry Hawkins has set his mind to get back at society for having wronged him by making film. He gathers a crew, one of the having been institutionalized for having had sex with a dead cow, and makes his first film, kidnapping a blind man and killing him. As his connections are impressed by the film, Terry sets out to make another film, which will contain stuff they never dared dream of.

Inspired by the Manson massacre, "Last House on Dead End Street" was originally shot in 1972 as "The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell", and had an alleged running length of 185 minutes, but was butchered down to 75 minutes, redubbed and given a long credit list by its distributor, after Watkins had taken his name of the film, and released as "The Fun House", then later at drive-ins as "Last House on Dead End Street".

While several critics has done so, I see no need to attempt to justify or elevate the film by drawing parallels to Derek Jarman or David Lynch, which in my opinion are non-existant. Personally, I like comparing it to Jörg Buttgereit’s "Nekromantik". Both films are no-budget underground amateur gore films, with a clear idea of how to structure the actions their protagonist. Both films are masterpieces of this subgenre of horror.

Henrik Sylow