Nigel P 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.

lastliberal I don't know about a film that starts off with a man (Joe Spinell) pleasuring himself in a movie theater as an inflated babe (J'Len Winters) gets electrocuted in a hot tub.This film brings back Spinell and Caroline Munro, who made Maniac two years prior.In this film Vinny (Spinell) is a taxi driver and wannabe director that stalks Jana Bates (Munro) at Cannes trying to get her in his film. Thing is, people around Jana are dying and she is receiving ominous notes. Is it Vinny? Set in Cannes, you can be sure that there is an overabundance of boobage. There are more tatas than blood. Vinney is getting nowhere as his New York cabbie appearance doesn't get him in any doors at Cannes.So the whole film is Vinney trying to get in touch with Jana with the background of a film festival.You've seen enough to know how this is going to end.Good job by Joe Spinell, but there just wasn't enough to keep the interest for a full 87 minutes.

Scarecrow-88 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.

Joseph P. Ulibas The Last Horror Film (1982) is about a sweaty and sleazy New Yorker named Vinnie (Joe Spinell) who's totally infatuated with a B-movie starlet (Caroline Munro). He claims that he's going to make a "masterpiece" with her as the star. Vinnie has very strong psychotic tendencies and drips with sweaty ooze. The film-makers had no idea what to do with Spinell in this picture. Basically, it was an expensive shot-on-the-spot film. The movie had a huge budget (compared to the classic Maniac) and half the wit and charm. How can a director go wrong with Spinell hamming up the joint? Well, these guys did. Bad movie.Pseudo sequel to Maniac. A.K.A. Fanatic.