'The Last Horror Film' (1982) is the strange title of an entertaining travelogue documentary about the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.
It's fascinating, seeing the advertising hoardings for the Bond film 'For Your Eyes Only' at the entrance to a hotel. It's also a trip down memory lane, seeing the posters for the films that were at the festival - 'Excalibur', 'Possession', 'Diva' - and I'm sure I saw a cinema advertising a showing of 'Cannibal Holocaust'.
In addition to these, the docu also features a number of radio news stories covering such events as the John Hinkley assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II and also events concerning the IRA
There is also footage of a press interview with an actress with weird Elsa Lancaster/'Bride Of Frankenstein' hair, where the subject of violence in films is talked about - bearing in mind the 'Video Recordings Act' (which was concerned with the Video Nasty scandal) wasn't passed until 1984, this is a disturbing piece of foreshadowing
Oh yeah, the film also has a subplot about some fat, sweaty psycho trying to get a horror film actress to appear in a film he is intent on making, and killing anyone who gets in his way - presumably some way of trying to justify the title
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