Roger Michael Watkins was a film director best known for the notorious 1970s grindhouse

Exploitation film

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 movie Last House on Dead End Street

Last House on Dead End Street

Last House on Dead End Street is a horror film released in 1977 about a disgruntled man, recently released from prison, who takes out his anguish by making snuff films....

. He also directed several porn films. He worked with famous porn actors like Jamie Gillis

Jamie Gillis

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 and Vanessa del Rio

Vanessa del Rio

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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

Last House on Dead End Street

Last House on Dead End Street is a horror film released in 1977 about a disgruntled man, recently released from prison, who takes out his anguish by making snuff films....

 to conceal the fact that he worked in several technical capacities on that film - director, actor, cameraman, etc.

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