
Roger Watkins
Director·1948–2007·Binghamton, New York, USA
8 horror credits
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.
Director7 films

Spittoon
Director

Shadows of the Mind
Director

The Fun House
Director

And All Through the House
Director

Ron Rico
Director

Requiem
Director

Masque of the Red Death
Director
Writer5 films

Spittoon
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Shadows of the Mind
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The Fun House
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Ron Rico
Writer

Requiem
Writer
Producer1 film

The Fun House
Producer
Editor2 films

Shadows of the Mind
Editor

The Fun House
Editor
Actor2 films

Spine
Man at Police Headquarters

The Fun House
Terry Hawkins