The Last Horror Movie (Certificate Unknown / NA)

The Last Horror Movie really isn't a movie. It's like a documentary or snuff if you will. At the beginning of the film, it's a normal horror film playing called 'The Last Horror Movie,' but he tapes over it, and then he would hang around a rental store and wait for someone to buy it, and then follow that person home and watch through the window of that persons house, and then when the movie over he would sneak into their house and kill them.

The Last Horror Movie is a unique cinematic exploration in to the mind of a serial killer. Though the title of this film might suggest conventional horror forthcomings, don't despair.

Wedding film maker Max Parry [Kevin Howarth] is a London bachelor who enjoys looking after his sisters' kids, entertaining friends and honing the art of murder. He decides to make his own horror film in order to help him discover his victims' attitudes to death.

The commonsensical style of this movie is its real charm. It lacks the sardonic comedy that makes R my Belvauxs' Belgian film Man Bites Dog an obvious fiction, but henceforth the horror becomes much more feasible. Howarth conceivably becomes someone we could know and like. His charismatic portrayal of Parry makes us open to his rational debates of art vs. humanity.

The Last Horror Movie takes the horror genre and turns it on its head. It pushes the viewer to challenge why they enjoy seeing murder and brutal senseless acts of killing. It forces us to consider the value of a human life and then contradicts our opinion with the general antipathy shown for human life in the third world. It tries to make us believe that murder is in essence a force of nature.

The protection and reassurance of your own home is no longer a safe haven but a fruitful opportunity to gratify the predator among us.

If you can stomach horror and gore then go and see this film. It's a powerful piece of British film making with an unnerving edge.