A former prison inmate hates society, and his plot for revenge includes making a horror movie. 78min imdb
Recap:
Terry Hawkins is a small time crook who has just spent a year in jail. He blames hates the world instead of himself and is longing for revenge. He has experience with stag films and has connections to the pornography scene which has the problem that everything has been shown and seen already. Now he gathers a crew and makes himself a name by shooting a movie in which he chokes a man. Then he and his crew gather a group of designated victims.
The Cuckoo Clocks Of Hell was a movie of about 180min that was shown in 1973 on the Cannes and Berlin festivals and for a short time in some american cinemas. However an actress sued producer/writer/director/actor Roger Watkins because of her nude scenes. A 78min butchered version was released as Fun House in 1977 and as The Last House On Dead End Street in 1979. The original version however remained lost and became the center of all kinds of legends.
But we still can watch the butchered version, and that is an intense and dark and sometimes even surreal experience. There is nothing normal in it, just hatred and violence. It is a movie about movie making that can be watched on a meta level. Also, it is a porn that replaces the act of reproduction with violence, so it’s a good thing that google/youtube is an american company, because violence is not much of a problem for americans, so we can watch it there because Terry Hawkins is just a harmless murderer instead of an evil pornographer.
This movie is definitely very interesting to watch. It’s said that it had a budget of $3000, but the director claims that he had spent 2200 of it on amphetamines. There are not many nobudget movies as impressive as this one. Sure it doesn’t leave a nice impression, but as a disturbing movie it has really passed the test of time. Even though it’s just a butchered movie I say it’s very, very good.
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