Roger Watkins
Directing
Biography
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. (Wikipedia)
Known For
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
The Fun House
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.
Spine
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.
A Double Feature
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)
Shadows of the Mind
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Scorpion
An ageing German filmmaker attempts to make a horror movie with an inept cast and crew.
Spittoon
Williams owes a debt. A debt he may not be able to repay. His daughter is a beautiful innocent, thrust into a world of carnal vengeance. His mistress provides comfort, but may not be able to save his fate. His employee tries to help, but cannot resist his sinister desires. Only his brother holds the final, shocking surprise in this web of erotic deceit.
Corruption
A boy talks to a man in a snowy cemetery before a mysterious woman leads the young man away and into bed.
Requiem
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Avenged!
Short adaptation of the EC Comics story of the same name.
And All Through the House
An experimental film which Roger Watkins created in order to prove how easy it is to create experimental films.
Black Snow
Ron Rico, a man without arms or legs, stands in a scrapyard when a mysterious and attractive women approaches him.
Ron Rico
A group of racquetball-playing married women indulge in sexual fantasies; so do their frustrated husbands.
The Pink Ladies
Two children fight with wooden blades while standing beneath a pendulum.
Masque of the Red Death
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.
Midnight Heat
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.
Driller
Beautiful, innocent Lisa has been found dead of a heroin overdose. At her 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.
Her Name Was Lisa
A day in the life of a group of career women.
A Day in the Life of... The Cosmopolitan Girls
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.
American Babylon
A woman, her actions controlled by mysterious film directors, stars in a bizarre porn film.