To me, this movie is perfection.

Just what I expected

hyped garbage

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A serial killer shoots his life of crime, communicating intimately with the audience who continues to watch his psychotic(..but cleverly executed)activities. For a period of time, Max has an assistant, a camera operator who records his murders until he threatens to stop him. Max uses his video diary in several ways, often indicting us, the voyeurs who watch, and our reactions towards his ability to not only kill, but live without guilt and get away with his crimes.First off, without the extraordinary performance from Kevin Howarth as Max, I don't think Julian Richards THE LAST HORROR MOVIE could work near as well. But, thanks to Howarth's commanding presence and impeccable skill at holding a grip over the viewer, THE LAST HORROR MOVIE becomes much more than some video document of an intelligent maniac's family life and slaughter of selected innocents. Kudos to director Richards who doesn't hardly ever let the camera's movement affect the viewer in a negative way and the editing(..the video diary's collection of events, from the mundane, everyday dealings with family members and friends, to Max's communications with his camera assistant, not to mention the process of choosing victims and executing them, with the murderer talking personally with us)is superb. The murders, shot in real time, are remarkably effective(..such as one victim being burned alive, another's throat slit, concluding with the plastic bag suffocation of a viewer who was interrupted by Max while watching his handiwork not knowing it was real).Max is a wedding cameraman by profession and often questions why those that are miserable continue to live. He has very hostile feelings towards society in general, and lets off steam to the camera. It's kind of a parody on snuff films and our obsession with reality television. He questions(..mocks, is more like it) us and why we would look down on him in disgust for committing such heinous acts of violence, when we continue to watch. You know, besides the stunning performance from Howarth, the screenplay also is quite thought-provoking and fascinating..it serves as a biting satire on how we never truly know somebody, no matter how close we are to them. That's what makes THE LAST HORROR MOVIE so chilling, we experience the whole universe of Max(..if we continue to observe his activities that is), both peering into the dark abyss and witnessing the other side where he functions humanly with people that know him. Tinged with jet black humor throughout, director Richards casts naughty winks to us as they poke fun at the genre. I felt director Richards, cast, and crew admirably(..successfully) achieve in their goal to create a realistic portrayal of a cerebral assassin who could, at any time, knock on your door, bewitch you with his charming smile, earn your trust, and assail you when you least expect it. One of the best shot-on-video films out there. The moments between Max and his gullible assistant can be quite unnerving(..particularly when Max insists on his direct participation in criminal acts).

If you watch the movie on TV,it loses at least 80% of its frightening power,so take my advice and rent it.You will find out why.You can call it bad taste ,cynicism ,but this movie is more ABOUT horror movies than a horror movie.Many people may be disappointed .Something like Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" -which is anyway highly superior to this one and which in 1960 was already a horror movie which made the viewer ill-at-ease - revisited with a faux cinema verite treatment.Kevin Howarth is excellent as the killer who makes all the peeping toms like us feel guilty.And "the last horror movie" could really be your last one!

Major disappointment! I thought it was going to be a typical horror movie but with a bit of originality. I was wrong. The originality that the movie was trying to achieve was over-done and therefore didn't make any impression on me. In the end it's just another low budget movie, done in a reality-TV kinda way, similar to "Blair-witch-Project" in terms of VERY little action and WAY too much talking. It feels like it was not edited at all. Surely that makes it seem more real, but we all know it's not. It also wasn't entertaining. I honestly had to stop myself from falling asleep several times...it was awfully boring and a waste of time. If you expect to see a scary movie, it's just not it.

I'm just writing here to warn people so they not get to be deceived (like I did) by the good reviews some have been giving to this crappy film. It's a disaster of a movie, and, considering it never actually gets to "move" anything, it should more be consider as a "still" than as a "movie".I have to say that there were a couple good ideas in it, but its really just a couple: the first one, at the very beginning of the movie, and the last one, let's say the two final minutes. The 75 minutes left were very, extremely, undeniable boring. There is no suspense whatsoever, and all we get is to see a crazy psycho boring us with his tedious blablabla theories of murders , psychology and human kind, looking directly to the camera, while he shows shorts scenes of his murders. I was so bored that I started counting the wrinkles on his face, cause he's that much of time on screen, just talking.I need to repeat it: What a lame movie! I really hated it. I don't remember being bored like this since I was on detention at high school. This movie really should be used as a punishment device.It was that boring. I wish I'd bought this darn film so I got to burn it. Now that would've been fun!.