The Last Horror Film 1982 Written by Judd Hamilton, Tom Klassen and David Winters, directed by David Winters. I picked up the Troma DVD thinking I hadn't seen the movie before. I had, under the name The Last Horror Film. Annoying, but I doubt I would have remembered the original title anyway. Judd Hamilton was married to Caroline Munroe at the time the film was made. David Winters was mostly a choreographer. His career started in 1948 when he was choreographer on the Ed Sullivan show. He stopped working about 2015 and died three years later.
As an actor David's earliest film job was working on The Big Story in 1949. His first directing job in TV came in 1967 with a couple of episodes of The Monkees. In 1975 he was choreographer for Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare Tour. I saw that tour when it played Winnipeg and it was highly entertaining to say the least. David directed the documentary on the tour. The only other movie of David's I've seen is the 1988 film Space Mutiny which was featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Both David and Judd appear in the film as directors.
Joe Spinell plays Vinny, a New York cab driver who's a wanna be filmmaker. Joe's real life mom, Filomena Spagnuolo, plays his mother in the movie. Vinny's never made a film but he fanatically wants to make one with Jana Bates, played by Caroline Munro, he thinks having her in his film would give him the boost he needs to get noticed by the big studios.
Vinny heads to Cannes the same year some deranged guy starts killing film people. Vinny's not a people person and he's kind of creepy and pathetic at the same time. He sure looks like the guy who could be killing these people and he has wacky fantasies to help reinforce that. He has more and more psychotic and violence encounters with other film people.
At first the police thought Jana's report of a murdered man was a hoax because there was no body or other evidence when they showed up to the scene. Soon a couple more people disappear, later the police start to believe it when their bodies turn up in the garbage.
Overall the movie is barely average but it was somewhat entertaining. The only other cast member that I recognized was Susanne Benton, some might remember her as Quilla June Holmes in A Boy And His Dog. The Troma DVD has a version of the film that's missing a bit of footage, on reading what the cuts are it doesn't matter to me. I won't be shelling out the money for the uncut film. It's just not worth it. It's hard to know if I'll ever get back to this but I'll keep the DVD. I might be able to use it for fuel in the end times.
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