MikesIDhasbeentaken And by that I mean if the last scene freaks you out or not depends on how your watching the film... For me, I had walked to blockbuster one evening and browsed the horror films available, chose this one from reading the back of it, and walked to a friends house that night and we watched it around midnight, I then had to walk home alone... if you've seen the film, you might appreciate that this is a far more scarier way to watch this than watching now where you'll either download or order online, or watch on TV, which kind of kills the films ending. Not sure how I'd feel had I seen under different conditions, but as a teenager and with the above circumstances, had me looking over my shoulder a little bit...

Antares_NZ I've been a fan of horror movies and thrillers since I was a child. I'd like to think I know a little about the way they work, having studied film at university (not that that makes me an expert, mind you). In the post-modern world we live in now, there is a glut of cinema verite in our televisual entertainment, what with the plethora of reality TV shows and so on. Horror movies seem to have moved in a similar direction in some ways: witness The Blair Witch Project, Rec, Cloverfield etc. There is also an emphasis on taking the horror to its "logical" extreme by exposing the viewer to total violence and sadistic torture - note for instance the current trend of torture porn with films like Hostel and Saw. All these movies aim to place us in the action and make it seem more "real".Taking this theme of placing-the-viewer-in-reality, the writer of The Last Horror Movie would like to think he is being desperately clever, but the script in this film is so patronising and transparent it can't even pass as "art". The lead actor is just plain awful - his performance is incredibly affected and bland, with almost no nuance. Others give good performances however, especially the Assistant.The serial killer constantly looks at the camera intensely and asks us "insightful" questions like "why are you still watching?" and "don't you want to see what happened?" and so on. Utterly tedious. We KNOW why we watch horror - we don't need to be lectured about it. Horror performs a sort of ritual of exorcism for our daily lives - it enables us to live vicariously through the fictional suffering of others, knowing we would never do it ourselves (and hoping that it will never happen to us). This sort of thematic material was explored with so much more finesse and artfulness in Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (which is truly shocking in its coldness), Pasolini's incredible Salo (the end sequence where we are looking through binoculars at soundless torture scenes), Belgium's excellent "Man Bites Dog" (which was ahead of its time) and even less graphic movies like Hitchcock's Rear Window and the excellent "Peeping Tom" from the early 60s. Voyeurism being explored in film is nothing new. The premise of The Last Horror Movie therefore appears incredibly naive to me, with nothing new to say. The murders are rather silly, and the whole "I followed you from the video store" line just tacky. It's one thing to take the tack of "the viewer is complicit in this murder" theme, it's quite another to shove it down their throats.

Horrorfan83 This movie runs a little slow..but for the lower budget horror movie it is pretty awesome. There are a few scenes that are so funny it makes the whole film worth watching. It is definitely a darker sense of humor and embodies most the qualities a good low budget horror flick should have. It's funny, violent, and a bit gory. I encourage you to watch this with a group of friends and not to take it seriously. Don't let your kids or your younger siblings watch this, it might actually scare them. Not to mention any bad ideas they could pick up from it. Overall this is one of my favorites. I just can't watch it more than once in a month because it seems a bit long to me.

comfortablynumb_1 I am always searching for something original when in the video store. Often something genuinely original is hard to find these days. In the recent decline of originality in the movie industry, "The Last Horror Movie" stands out like a beacon for its genre.It possesses the most brilliant ending since "Fight Club". It will have you locking your doors and windows! The premise of the film is to portray murder through the eyes of a character with no moral conscience, i.e. a psychopath. Unlike the many "psycho" movies made in the past, the killer is the narrator and maker of the film which is in a documentary/snuff movie format.I recommend this film for anyone who enjoys an unpredictable, intelligent and suitably violent horror film.