{"id":16893,"date":"2024-10-20T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16893"},"modified":"2024-10-18T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T19:59:30","slug":"last-house-on-dead-end-street-1977-roger-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16893","title":{"rendered":"Last House on Dead End Street (1977, Roger Watkins)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks and sounds like shit right from the start, with spectacularly out-of-sync sound recording.  <em>Manos: The Last House on the Left Hands of Fate<\/em>, about a misanthrope making snuff films, made by a (presumed) misanthrope and looking like an actual snuff film.  &#8220;This isn&#8217;t my cup of tea. I&#8217;m not interested in art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dirtbag Bill, about to drill-kill:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/deadend4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Terry, who looks like Dirtbag Bill Hader, gets out of jail for drug dealing and says he&#8217;ll show &#8217;em all.  Filmmaker Bill isn&#8217;t getting much play from his softcore lesbian dramas and blackface whipping scenes.  They kidnap some people and murder them on camera, then a voiceover tells us they were all apprehended, ok.  An incoherent, possibly evil movie.  The cinematographer later shot <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12666\">Avengers: Infinity War<\/a><\/em>, which makes sense.<\/p>\n<p><em>Despite this movie&#8217;s rocky\/aborted release it definitely predates the Misfits song:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/deadend2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/deadend3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks and sounds like shit right from the start, with spectacularly out-of-sync sound recording. Manos: The Last House on the Left Hands of Fate, about a misanthrope making snuff films, made by a (presumed) misanthrope and looking like an actual snuff film. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t my cup of tea. I&#8217;m not interested in art.&#8221; Dirtbag Bill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,91,54,469],"class_list":["post-16893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-filmmaking","tag-horror","tag-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16920,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions\/16920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}