David Hess from Last House on the Left stars in this movie as Alex, a grease monkey who has a thing for young ladies, that is raping them. He and his friend who owns their own shop are off to go out to boogie but meet some snobbish couple who asks them to fix their car. They also ask them to tag along to a suburban house party which they do. After hanging around the party for a while Alex and his friend realize that they were only brought to the party for the rich people's amusement and all hell breaks loose and Alex starts to torment and rape the guests.
From the maker of the excellent Cannibal Holocaust is here The House on the Edge of the Park which may not be quite as good as CH but is still a fantastic movie from Ruggero Deodato.
I remember first time viewing it, I had been sitting through a bunch of other Italian flicks for a few weeks time and were getting really tired of some of them but this one kinda brought back the interest again as it felt kinda fresh and was somehow really captivating.
It's not the usual kinda horror you get here but instead this movie is pretty bizarre and twisted, not to mention sick but most of all it feels pretty realistic and that's what makes it work so well.
The acting is very good and especially very belivable and that gives this movie a more realistic feel to it. Even though Alex is a psychotic who rapes girls and who is a violent kinda guy, you still feel some sympathy for him since the snobbish people are horrible so it's not that bad when he goes berserk on them.
Not too much actual gore and some attempted rape and sex scenes, a lot of sleaze that is nudity combined with violence. Although it's a good story and the violence and everything surrounding it is really good and gives it a certain atmosphere which works well.
May put some people off but if you're into this sort of thing I would definitely recommend it as it is a very good movie with a solid script.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: La Casa sperduta nel parco
MOVIE YEAR: 1980
DIRECTOR: Ruggero Deodato
WRITING CREDITS: Gianfranco Clerici, Vincenzo Mannino
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: David Hess, Christian Borromeo, Annie Belle
COUNTRY: Italy
RUNTIME: 91 min
RATING: 8/10
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