Roger Watkins
Nascimento : 1948-09-17, Binghamton, New York, USA
Morte : 2007-03-06
História
Roger Michael Watkins (September 17, 1948 – March 6, 2007) was a film director best known for the notorious 1970s grindhouse movie Last House on Dead End Street. He also directed several porn films. He worked with famous porn actors like Jamie Gillis and Vanessa del Rio.
The Internet Movie Database lists a number of Watkins' aliases (see the information box at right), most of which he seems to have used in Last House on Dead End Street to conceal the fact that he worked in several technical capacities on that film - director, actor, cameraman, etc.
Watkins began his career in adult film by writing the screenplay for Mystique (1979) which was directed by Roberta Findlay and for which he was uncredited. The following year he began writing and directing adult feature films under the pseudonym Richard Mahler, which he took from combining the names of two of his favorite composers, Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler. His best known adult films (Her Name Was Lisa (1980), Midnight Heat (1983), Corruption (1983), and American Babylon (1985) are considered by many to be more cult films or arthouse films than pornography due to their multi layered narratives that are downbeat in tone, comtaining elements of avant-garde, horror and satire.
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A woman, her actions controlled by mysterious film directors, stars in a bizarre porn film.
Director
A woman, her actions controlled by mysterious film directors, stars in a bizarre porn film.
Man at Police Headquarters
A madman stalks nurses, brutally stabbing them to death. In his fevered mind, he believes his victims to be a woman from his past named Linda. Police struggle to apprehend him before he can murder and mutilate again.
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Producer
Editor
Robert is a recluse who's obsessed with pornographic film and tries to draw his best friend Thomas into his lifestyle. Thomas is intrigued but now he has to worry about Robert's sexually frustrated wife Joan.
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Robert is a recluse who's obsessed with pornographic film and tries to draw his best friend Thomas into his lifestyle. Thomas is intrigued but now he has to worry about Robert's sexually frustrated wife Joan.
Writer
Robert is a recluse who's obsessed with pornographic film and tries to draw his best friend Thomas into his lifestyle. Thomas is intrigued but now he has to worry about Robert's sexually frustrated wife Joan.
Production Design
Adult spoof of Michael Jackson's Thriller musical containing a fan of the super pop star known as Mr J and her fantasies that come to life in an unbridled display of cinematic imagination in her sexual misadventures. Leading lady gets it from a well-endowed werewolf (the transormed Mr. J); is abducted to a strange castle and finally escapes to a graveyard where she joins in an unbelievable orgy of zombies and ghouls and the like. Of course, her kinky explorations are fraught with hot music, dazzling dance routines and spectacular special effects.
Producer
This is a story about a businessman that "sells his soul" for power. However, he is betrayed by courier/associate and finds himself answering to his formal employee. The businessman must then call upon his sleazy half-brother to help him set things right... or so he thinks...
Editor
This is a story about a businessman that "sells his soul" for power. However, he is betrayed by courier/associate and finds himself answering to his formal employee. The businessman must then call upon his sleazy half-brother to help him set things right... or so he thinks...
Writer
This is a story about a businessman that "sells his soul" for power. However, he is betrayed by courier/associate and finds himself answering to his formal employee. The businessman must then call upon his sleazy half-brother to help him set things right... or so he thinks...
Director
This is a story about a businessman that "sells his soul" for power. However, he is betrayed by courier/associate and finds himself answering to his formal employee. The businessman must then call upon his sleazy half-brother to help him set things right... or so he thinks...
Writer
A hired killer goes on the run after being caught in bed with the wife of a mob boss. While he's holed up in a scuzzy Times Square room waiting for the hitmen he knows are after him, he reflects back on his life and what brought him to the situation he's in now.
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A hired killer goes on the run after being caught in bed with the wife of a mob boss. While he's holed up in a scuzzy Times Square room waiting for the hitmen he knows are after him, he reflects back on his life and what brought him to the situation he's in now.
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A day in the life of a group of career women.
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A day in the life of a group of career women.
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A day in the life of a group of career women.
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An ageing German filmmaker attempts to make a horror movie with an inept cast and crew.
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An ageing German filmmaker attempts to make a horror movie with an inept cast and crew.
Editor
A group of racquetball-playing married women indulge in sexual fantasies; so do their frustrated husbands.
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A group of racquetball-playing married women indulge in sexual fantasies; so do their frustrated husbands.
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A group of racquetball-playing married women indulge in sexual fantasies; so do their frustrated husbands.
Writer
Alma, a famous photographer, needs to move away from work and the city due to a serious cancer illness, and will live alone in a beach house. Surrounded by award-winning photos of her past, and haunted by memories, she ends up getting involved with Cosima, a young woman from the neighborhood. But what begins as a love affair between the two women soon turns out to be a nightmare when Cosima starts manipulating Alma and bringing others into the house - and their lives.
Writer
The film opens as Elise is getting released from a mental institution after 12 years of being locked up. She witnessed her mother drown and afterwards was never the same. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Lang believes she is well enough to leave the hospital. He along with his girlfriend Diana escort Elise back to her childhood home. Soon, Elise’s stepbrother Leland shows up. It’s clear that his intentions are not good as he taunts her about her mother’s death. Later, it becomes clear that he wants the entire estate for himself and wants Elise locked back up forever. Elise begins hearing voices and having flashbacks of the night her mother died. Soon, people around Elise get murdered. The killer is a bit of a surprise and the conclusion is awesome. The atmosphere created is fantastic and sits somewhere in-between Don’t Look in the Basement (1973) and Funeral Home (1980). (from http://www.scaredstiffreviews.com/?p=4609)
Editor
The film opens as Elise is getting released from a mental institution after 12 years of being locked up. She witnessed her mother drown and afterwards was never the same. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Lang believes she is well enough to leave the hospital. He along with his girlfriend Diana escort Elise back to her childhood home. Soon, Elise’s stepbrother Leland shows up. It’s clear that his intentions are not good as he taunts her about her mother’s death. Later, it becomes clear that he wants the entire estate for himself and wants Elise locked back up forever. Elise begins hearing voices and having flashbacks of the night her mother died. Soon, people around Elise get murdered. The killer is a bit of a surprise and the conclusion is awesome. The atmosphere created is fantastic and sits somewhere in-between Don’t Look in the Basement (1973) and Funeral Home (1980). (from http://www.scaredstiffreviews.com/?p=4609)
Director
The film opens as Elise is getting released from a mental institution after 12 years of being locked up. She witnessed her mother drown and afterwards was never the same. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Lang believes she is well enough to leave the hospital. He along with his girlfriend Diana escort Elise back to her childhood home. Soon, Elise’s stepbrother Leland shows up. It’s clear that his intentions are not good as he taunts her about her mother’s death. Later, it becomes clear that he wants the entire estate for himself and wants Elise locked back up forever. Elise begins hearing voices and having flashbacks of the night her mother died. Soon, people around Elise get murdered. The killer is a bit of a surprise and the conclusion is awesome. The atmosphere created is fantastic and sits somewhere in-between Don’t Look in the Basement (1973) and Funeral Home (1980). (from http://www.scaredstiffreviews.com/?p=4609)
Writer
At Lisa's funeral, the people in her life gather to memorialize her, reflecting on how their own deeds sent her down a path of self-destruction and death. As each memory unfolds on screen, Lisa is seen to transform from a naive model, to a manipulative vixen, to a tragic victim of her own insecurities and victimization.
Director
At Lisa's funeral, the people in her life gather to memorialize her, reflecting on how their own deeds sent her down a path of self-destruction and death. As each memory unfolds on screen, Lisa is seen to transform from a naive model, to a manipulative vixen, to a tragic victim of her own insecurities and victimization.
Editor
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
Terry Hawkins
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
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After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
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After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
Director
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
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An experimental film which Roger Watkins created in order to prove how easy it is to create experimental films.
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Ron Rico, a man without arms or legs, stands in a scrapyard when a mysterious and attractive women approaches him.
Director
Ron Rico, a man without arms or legs, stands in a scrapyard when a mysterious and attractive women approaches him.
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A boy talks to a man in a snowy cemetery before a mysterious woman leads the young man away and into bed.
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A boy talks to a man in a snowy cemetery before a mysterious woman leads the young man away and into bed.
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Two children fight with wooden blades while standing beneath a pendulum.
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Two short stop-motion animated films. The first film, 'Life is Nice I Think', follows a mannequin as it moves around a building. The second film, '-Rex- King of the Animals', follows a toy monkey that interacts with various other animals.
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Short adaptation of the EC Comics story of the same name.
