The House on the Edge of the Park
The House on the Edge of the Park is a 1980 Italian rape-revenge film directed by Ruggero Deodato. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
Deodato's Last House riff with David Hess again. Mean, cheap and effective at exactly one thing.
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Deodato doing The Last House on the Left with David Hess again, four years after Cannibal Holocaust, and it is the meanest thing on the list that has any craft in it.
Two men from a garage crash a party of wealthy New Yorkers and take the house. The class dynamic is the whole engine: the guests are contemptuous first, and the film is interested in how quickly that curdles in both directions.
Hess had played essentially this role in Craven's film and does it here with more control. Giovanni Lombardo Radice plays the friend who is out of his depth.
The final twist reframes the guests entirely and is the reason people defend it.
Successfully prosecuted. Cut on its 2002 and 2011 UK releases, and passed 18 uncut in 2022.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
UK video title House on the Edge of the Park
UK now Passed 18 uncut in 2022, after cut releases in 2002 and 2011
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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