A Disappointing Continuation

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Disillusioned New York Taxi Driver Vinny Durand (Joe Spinell) is obsessed with cult film actress Jana Bates (Caroline Munro). He tells his mother, with whom he shares an apartment - actually Spinell's home), that he intends to go to the Cannes Film Festival, meet Bates and direct her in a film that will kick-start his career as an acclaimed film-maker. His mother (played by Spinell's real matriarch Mary – the star of the film, in my view) isn't convinced. In a warning uttered without punctuation, she says, "Stop thinking about those crazy ideas, you'll only get yourself upset again, I made baked macaroni, you don't eat right."Caroline Munro seems to be re-dubbed throughout, with an American accent. Visually, she's as 1980s as it is possible to get, her natural beauty often smothered by make-up and hair colouring and styling. She features in my favourite scene – wrapped only in a towel, running hysterically, barefoot down the middle of a bustling night-time road. This includes what appears to be real news footage, charting the assignation attempt on then President Ronald Reagan (himself an ex-film star) in an attempt by an obsessed fan to impress actress Jodie Foster.'The Last Horror Film' is by turns dreadful and very funny (especially the last scene). Every few minutes, we are treated to tracking shots of beaches, movie premieres and parties, incessantly accompanied by tuneless 80's 'songs, with hoarse-voiced singers, guitars and Linn Drums (which help to ensure the running time seems a lot longer than 90 minutes) – against this backdrop, Durrand comes across as a splendidly drab failure, who might even be responsible for a series of gory murders that seem to follow Bates around …Filmed, without permits, at and around the Cannes Film Festival, this is somehow saved from being 'a bad film' by the genuine warmth and heart that belies the bad acting (although Spinell has moments where he is genuinely unnerving) and zero budget. It goes some way to explore whether or not horror films inspire real life horrific events. Bates' comeback is that people watch the news, which is more terrifying than any horror films she has ever seen. It's difficult to argue with that.

Joe Spinell goes nuts again. This time he's a New York taxi driver, with an unhealthy obsession over a horror actress named Jana Bates (Caroline Munro) He decides to stalk her at the Cannes film festival, so he can make the ultimate movie. Jana's friends get killed off one by one, and the killer is now after her. Jana's ex husband, and now producer of her films, Bret Bates gets killed. Everyone thinks he's disappeared, but that may, or may not be the case. Those expecting the quality of Maniac will feel vast disappointment. I didn't hate this movie, but I wasn't particularly enamored with it, despite a few flourishes here and there. Spinell has mommy issues, here again to a lesser degree. (Ironically the mom is played by Spinell's real life Mom) Joe Spinell gives another brave performance, with another psychotic character. This movie has a lot of interesting ideas, but fails to capitalize on them. The thought of a fan (Spinell) killing people to turn it into a horror film was very ingenious, but there is so much tedium in this film. There was quite a few times where I looked at my watch. It has major pacing issues, and ruins what could have been a clever film. Caroline Munro is making a movie called Scream, and weirdly enough. Scream would be made in 96, and rejuvenate the horror genre. It also takes shots at Hollywood's gossip garbage. There isn't a ton of gore here. We get a slit throat off screen, an Axe in the back,chainsaw decapitation, among other things. It's pretty dry. As I mentioned previously, Joe Spinell is quite good in this movie. He's not nearly as deranged as he was in Maniac, but he's still off his rocker to say the least. It's not pleasant to watch him pleasure himself over Caroline Munro, but he is fully committed as the basket case, and gave a solid performance. Caroline Munro doesn't give much of a performance, but she's certainly gorgeous to look at. The re-teaming of her & Spinell disappoints in the long run. There is a poster, advertising a Bond film with Roger Moore. I believe it was For Your Eyes Only. This is relevant, because Caroline Munro was a Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me. The twist ending is actually awesome. It caught me completely off guard, and it was done with bravado. It's just too bad the movie wasn't interesting enough. I suppose it's worth a look, but there isn't a whole lot to recommend4.3/10

New York taxi driver, with aspirations in directing a big horror film, Vinny Durand(Joe Spinell)is obsessed with female horror icon Jana Bates(Caroline Munro)and follows her to Cannes Film Festival willing to go to any lengths necessary to see the actress star in his picture. The film paints him an oddball right from the start as we see Durand masturbating in a darkened theater to the scene of a horror flick featuring a naked woman frying from an electrical wire in her hot tub..this ought to let the viewer know from the get-go what they're in for.The film is mostly set in Cannes and director David Winters shoots exact streets, movie posters, and people on locations trying to capture that spirit of movie-making as the film transpires with sweaty Durand, quite bonkers as he endlessly fantasizes of being a star director appearing before crowds of adoring fans applauding at a movie premiere dressed in fancy black suit and cape(..this is a gas!). Soon those associated with Jana Bates who turn Durand down, when he approaches them with his great desire and script for her, wind up murdered in various ways(sliced throat, ax to the back, knife-stabbing, and gun-shots to the back of the skull). Is Durand the man responsible for these crimes? My favorite scene has poor, frightened-out-of-her-wits Munro running from crazed Spinell from her bathroom, through her hotel, and into the Cannes streets in nothing but a towel! Love those scenes between Spinell and his mom(ESPECIALLY the final one!). Those expecting the graphic blood-letting of Spinell and Munro's previous "Maniac" will probably be disappointed with this film. I don't think the film is very good, (quite sloppy actually), but Spinell delivers enough lunacy in his wacko to entertain those horror fans looking for it.

This movie is not underrated. I think it deserves being rated poorly. Even though I do think the main guy is good at acting like a slimeball, the story is not very exciting. I also do not like the main woman's hair, she looks like a skunk. There are some moments of slapstick that seem a little odd (like the cake falling on the sun bathing torso).All in all, this movie is not very memorable. 3/10 for a potentially interesting idea and a good lead character.