THE PROGRAM

Initially airing from March through April of 1995, "Chiller" is a long forgotten, six episode British horror anthology series. Unlike "Tales from the Crypt" or "Tales from the Darkside," "Chiller" is a very straight-faced exercise in short form, supernatural storytelling. Covering topics ranging from your standard ghost story to a sinister small-town secret, "Chiller" is very much a slow-burn series that at a surface glance, has the visual look of your standard British drama. While decidedly not campy in production design, "Chiller" proves to be only a mildly effective (and that's debatable) entry in the genre, ultimately finding itself hamstrung by its own low-key approach to entertai...Read the entire review

The Film:
Somehow, and I'm not sure how, I managed to miss Basket Case 3: The Progeny. That in and of itself is bad enough. But that's not what is really bad. What is really bad is that I didn't even know there was a third film in director Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case series. I saw the first two films, and then this one slipped past me, unnoticed for more than twenty years. And that is just plain pathetic. Well, it may be more than two decades late, but at least I've finally seen the third go-round of the Bradley twins.

Picking up where Basket Case 2 left off, BC3 finds Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) desperate to be rejoined with his deformed, murderous conjoined twin brother Belial. In BC2, Belial hooked up with the equally deformed freak Eve, for what could possibly be the most ridiculous sex scene in any horror movie. Well, in the aftermath of...Read the entire review

In an uncommon move for a film shot long before the era of home video and DVD (it may be the first ever making-of documentary of an independent feature), filmmaker Roy Frumkes was allowed onto the set and into the editing bay of George A. Romero's landmark zombie film Dawn of the Dead, to interview the cast and crew about making a follow-up to the hugely successful Night of the Living Dead, and to discuss Romero's directorial style. The completed 83 minute feature, Document of the Dead, was released in 1983 to positive reviews, just a couple of years before Romero's third Dead film was made. Now, encouraged by other filmmakers like Eli Roth and with plenty of help from Romero himself, Frumkes has recut Document with another 20 minutes of footage from the sets of subsequent projects, including Two Evil Eyes, Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead.<...Read the entire review

Perfect October viewing for those looking for some classic U.K. chills. Synapse Films has released The Complete Hammer House of Horror, a five-disc, thirteen-episode collection of the 1980 television horror anthology. Featuring famous Hammer alumni from both in front of and behind the cameras (including Hammer horror icon Peter Cushing and Denholm Elliott, and directors Alan Gibson and Peter Sasdy among others), The Complete Hammer House of Horror's scary, gory, sometimes naughty, sometimes British black humor-amusing episodes are necessary viewing for any fan of 80s horror or the famous studio's theatrical releases. A couple of brief bonuses don't hurt these good-looking, uncut transfers.

By 1979, the Hammer Films studio was in a lot of troubl...Read the entire review

I vomited at some point during the first couple reels of The Life and Death of a Porno Gang.

Honestly, I'm kind of proud of that. Although I generally keep my distance from extreme cinema, I've still managed to endure the likes of Sal and Lars von Trier's Antichrist. Disgusted, repulsed, mortified...? Sure, sure, sure. Sal even

Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55947 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:26:00 PDT Highly Recommended Made during a particularly bleak period for Hammer Films, Twins of Evil (1972) is a pleasant surprise. While still exhibiting the same desperate components of the company's other horror films of the period - gratuitous nudity, an obviously low budget, and feeble attempts to create a new franchise/horror star - its screenplay is much more intriguing than most early '70s Hammers, the direction is lively, and it features one of actor Peter Cushing's best performances. Synapse Film's new Blu-ray will be the first time many will have had a chance to see it. Though previously available on DVD in the UK, this apparently marks its first home video appearance in America since a 1990 VHS release. The presentation is a major improvement over Synapse's flawed 2010 Blu-ray of another Hammer title, Vampire Circus (also 1972), and like that film it comes with a mountain of extra features. Included is...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=56957 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:14:34 PDT Recommended When his remote-control lawnmower birthday gift accidentally slices and dices his spacey fiancee Elizabeth (Patty Mullen) at a birthday party, Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) is distraught. Unable to think straight without his better half (no matter how many times he scratches his brain with a power drill), he rigs up a garage full of equipment ready to harness the lightning provided by an impending storm, with the hopes of bringing her back from the dead. All he needs to complete the puzzle is a new body for his bride-to-be, so he throws on a cheap suit, borrows his mother's car, and begins cruising the city's seediest streets... Frankenhooker sounds like a hole-in-one. A cheap monster movie with the promise of nudity, ridiculous splatter effects, and an over-the-top sense of humor? Sign me up. Sadly, director/writer Frank Henenlotter never really captures the promise of the movie's premise, s...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=55477 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:45:00 PDT Recommended "Let's kick some ass." That's preeeeeeeetty much the plot summary for Red Scorpion right there too. Red Scorpion, filmed after that one-two punch of Rocky IV and Masters of the Universe, stars Dolph Lundgren as Soviet Spetsnaz soldier Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=54921 Fri, 18 May 2012 13:37:18 PDT Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Synapses Films' 42nd Street Forever DVD releases, which number a half dozen and counting, have become must-owns for film geeks. The collections, which the label began issuing in 2005, are a buffet of trailers from the so-called "grindhouse" era: the notorious, the long forgotten, and everything in between. Other, lesser labels have attempted to follow their lead with trailer compilations of their own, but no one does it quite as well as Synapse; their discs are howlingly entertaining and marvelously compiled, and feature about the best possible A/V quality for scraps of film as presumably neglected as these. 42nd Street Forever's inaugural foray into HD, simply subtitled Blu-Ray Edition, is comprised mostly of titles from the series' first two standard-def releases, 2005's Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=53816 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:49:39 PDT Highly Recommended Dateline! 1969. In this corner: a ragtag bunch of vets fresh off a particularly brutal tour of duty in Vietnam. In this corner: a small army of nutjobs in some sort of thrill kill cult, prone to [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] painting m...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=53122 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:19:09 PST Rent It The Tagline: FOR THESE GIRLS, DEATH IS THE ONLY ESCAPE! The Movie: As part of its growing Asian Cult Cinema Collection line, Synapse Films has just released the tame (relative to its subgenre) 2005 J-Horror title Gurozuka directed by Yoichi Nishiyama. Anytime I review a foreign title without an English language dub (as Gurozuka's DVD is packaged), I feel obligated to start off by acknowledging that fact. Reading subtitles doesn't bother me, but I know many film enthusiasts who refuse to do so. If you fall into that camp, this first U.S. home video release of Gurozuka just is not f...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=52698 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:39:35 PST Highly Recommended If you're just looking for a quick, eight-word review, I could probably get away with leaving it at this: Intruder totally lives up to its cover art. Okay, you know how Joe Bob Briggs coined the phrase "Spam in a Cabin" to describe one of the most tried and true horror formulas of the 1980s? Y'know, a gaggle of horny twentysomethings trot off to some hopelessly out-of-the-way cabin to drink and screw, and with no chance of escape and no one to come to their rescue, they get slaughtered one by one? Anyway, Intruder sticks to that same basic story, only instead of Spam-in-a-cabin, it's more like Spam-in-a-supermarket. Wait, I need a better analogy. Anyway, Intruder is set at a floundering grocery store, and the night crew ha...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=51692 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:44:02 PDT Recommended South of Heaven is a film that really threw me for a loop. It's visually arresting, well-performed, stylishly directed, and often bizarrely dispairing, summoning in the viewer the same sense of hopelessness that the characters are feeling. It's a wonderful, incredibly original piece of filmmaking that never does what the viewer expects, all with the effect of making the viewer feel like shit. The plot revolves around two brothers, named Roy Coop (Adam Nee) and Dale Coop (Aaron Nee). When the movie begins, we're with Roy, who strides into his brother's curiously empty apartment, fresh off a stint in the Navy. His brother has been sending him a novel in letter form over the course of his tour of duty, and now that Roy is back, he's going to shape it into the Gre...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=52160 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:41:57 PDT Highly Recommended "What began as a birthday barbeque ended in a bizarre tragedy in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey today. It was this power mower that brought a quick end to the life of 21 year old bride-to-be Elizabeth Shelley. Like wood through a mulcher, the Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=50828 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:54:00 PDT Highly Recommended Writer/director James Glickenhaus shrugs off comparisons to Death Wish in his audio commentary, and...well, yeah, he's right. Sure, The Exterminator is also an urban revenge flick about a seemingly ordinary schlub who dishes [click on the thumbnail to enlarge]...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=51515 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:09:31 PDT Recommended "You have the right to remain silent...forever!" Truth in advertising! The title for Maniac Cop tells you just about everything you need to know about the premise this [click on the thumbnail to enlarge]Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=47238 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:48:54 PDT Highly Recommended This is just a guess, but I'm betting a lot of film students turning in their thesis projects have hammered out something artsy, abstract, pretentious, and...well, terrifyingly like this: Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter, meanwhile, handed a professor at UCLA a slasher flick. Not some post-modern deconstruction, not some high-concept spin on the old formula...just a gritty, grimy, brutal, straightahead slasher. Obrow and Carpenter wanted to use their movie as foot in the door in Hollywood, so instead of trying to do something offbeat or unusual, they did pretty much the exact same thing that all the slasher flicks from the class of 1980 were doing -- it's just that they did it better. So many of...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=48698 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:07:13 PDT Recommended At one point in The Image, a middle-aged woman, wealthy and bored, is in a room in her palatial home that she's nicknamed "The Gothic Chamber". As she [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] pokes at a platter of exotic cheeses and sloshes around a glass of win...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=49383 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:20:57 PDT Recommended The beginning of VampireCircus introduces audiences to avampire known as Count Mitterhaus (Robert Tayman), who seems to beluring many youngwomen into nights of seduction and eventually death. The opening(pre-credits)lasts a staggering amount of time with nearly fifteen minutes devotedto thesetup involving this vampire and how he seduces a woman and has herhelp him tokill a very young girl. The act of killing a child almost seems toserve assome kind of perverse ...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=46099 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:28:35 PDT Recommended REVIEW Writer/director Philippe Robert has caused quite a genre buzz with his French language horror flick Resonnances, a shockingly meager-budgeted feature length debut that is chock-full of natural dialogue and fun monster sequences. The geek chatter comparison to the vibe of Raimi's Evil Dead series may be somewhat overstating this film's hipness, but I'm here to tell you that I haven't enjoyed a "big monster" adventure like this in quite some time. And that's even with the fact that the creature doesn't make even make its initial onscreen appearance until about 62 minutes in of the film's 83 minute runtime. The setup is remarkably spartan, with Robert relying on the simple premise of plopping a few characters into danger as potential monster food, and then waiting to see who gets munched on and who survives. This time it's a sextet of twentysomethings - three male, th...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=46819 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:57:15 PDT Recommended Plenty of people out there look at their children as their truest legacy...immortalizing themselves through their offspring. Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) isn't all that [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] di...Read the entire review ]]> Blu-ray http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=46043 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:15:25 PST Highly Recommended Vampire Circus (1972) is the first Hammer horror film released to Blu-ray anywhere in the world.* It speaks well of Synapse Films, a boutique label dedicated to cult films like this, that they would scoop bigger labels with more exploitable Hammer titles, and with a fine high-def presentation and scads of good extras to boot. And yet it's, well - odd. Though it has many of the earmarks of the kind of horror films Britain and the European continent were churning out during the early-1970s, Vampire Circus is hardly the typical Hammer horror film. At the time, the company was in a state of near-insolvency, Hammer having lost its long-term Hollywood studio backing, and Vampire Circus reflects their desperation to find the Next Big Thing while keeping new films - something, anything - in production. It avoids the been-there/done-that air of Hammer's Dracula series with Christo...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=45611 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:45:25 PST Recommended The Film: Back in the early days of home video, when studios were much slower to release new movies, and video tapes were usually rented at grocery stores, there was a glut of exploitation titles to choose from. These were all flicks that had come out in decades earlier, and many of them were released on video under alternate titles. This is especially true of select blaxploitation titles--movies like The Bus is Coming became Ghetto Revenge, while Force Four, Charcoal Black, Brother on the Run and Savage became Black Force, Black Rage, Black Force 2 and Black Valor, respectively. And then there was Death of a Snowman, one of the few blaxploitation films to boast of being an international production, which found a home on select video shelves under the titles Black Trash and Soul Patrol. Produced in So...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=44180 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:43:11 PDT Skip It Graphic Sexual Horror -- now there's a title that screams for attention. Upon closer inspection, hesitant viewers will discover it's actually a documentary rather than the next step in Hostel knock-offs. Chronicling the rise and fall of an extreme adult website known as InSex, directors Barbara Bell and Anna Lorentzon interview the site's creator, Brent "pd" Scott, several of the models, and a few of the site's fans to try and paint a picture of this mishmash of sex, commerce, and an attempt, at least, at artistic expression. The primary focus of the film is Scott, who comes off as a fairly intelligent guy, but it's hard to tell if he's doing the documentary to honestly reflect on his experiences creating and running InSex or to "clear his name", as it were, in the public eye. He's perfectly willing to admit that some things went to his head, and occasionally that he crossed the line, b...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=39830 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:08:17 PDT Rent It The Movie: Night of Death is a surprisingly fun French horror film from the early eighties that delves deep into what this reviewer believes is a deep well of relatively untapped material: creepy old people. Martine, played by Isabelle Goguey, is a pretty young nurse who takes a job with a private nursing home. She shows up for the job a day early, having just had a fight with her boyfriend. This causes some consternation for Helene (Betty Beckers), the director of the nursing home, because the old nurse Nicole has not left yet, and Helene (along with the residents of the nursing home and the handyman Flavien) was planning on killing Nicole and eating her corpse. This last revelation may seem like a spoiler, except that Nicole is killed and eaten very early on in the film. The tension comes from the audience knowing that the same thing is being planned for Martine in one month's time...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=38497 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:16:29 PDT Recommended "I find that everything in life begins or ends with the family...one way or another." Synapse Films has put much thought and energy into a title that probably doesn't deserve it - but that's how you ride the remake publicity gravy train. No doubt hoping to snag some curious buyers stirred by the upcoming remake of the classic low-budget thriller, The Stepfather, Synapse has re-released the 2003 Miramax DVD edition of that film's 1989 sequel: Stepfather II: Special Edition, and slapped on some new additional bonus material. That's a whole lot of coverage for an inferior sequel, but there's no denying that, at the very least, Stepfather II is acceptable late 80s slasher fare if only to see Terry O'Quinn reprise his iconic role. Completists and...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=38342 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:28:54 PDT Rent It The Movie: What to say about Animalada? It is an Argentine film in which a man falls in love with a sheep, and kills a large number of people to ensure that his love affair can continue. That synopsis alone is probably enough to weed out those who wish to see this film from those that don't. If you don't enjoy watching realistically simulated, if not exactly explicit, sex with animals, or violent death on film, then Animalada will do little to satisfy. It is an ambiguous, disturbing and ultimately opaque film that requires a strong stomach of its viewers. Alberto (Carlos Roffe) is a well off Argentine, an avid hunter, married to successful magazine editor Natalie (Christina Banegas) with two lovely adult children. He is bored, however, feeling trapped and listless, dissatisfied. He and his wife spend the summer each year at their ranch, and on this particular evening, while th...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=38248 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:55:21 PDT Highly Recommended Synapse Films continues their socko series of exploitation trailer collections with 42nd Street Forever Volume 5: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a gathering of 50 trailers and snipes from the golden age of exploitation movies. There's no question this is a superior collection of original trailers, selected by The Alamo staff from their own private holdings and transferred from 35mm elements. However, I can't say the accompanying commentary track by the owner and employees of Austin's famed Alamo Drafthouse cinema is as enlightening (or entertaining, for that matter) as the previous 42nd Street Forever volume I reviewed. As an additional bonus, a 30-minute documentary/commercial for the Alamo is included...but you'll really only want to watch the insane trailers here. ...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=38131 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:16:33 PDT Highly Recommended Sick Girl: Oh man, God love you Eben McGarr. One swing of the low-budget sledgehammer brings us back where we're supposed to be with unsafe horror. Sick Girl (not to be confused with the Masters of Horror TV movie of the same name) is every bit as sick as its name implies. Sporting a wicked mean sense of humor, so airless and dry as to make only camel spiders laugh, Sick Girl pours on the taboos with unflinching style, only to knock them down and leave you reeling with queasy delight. Not even a pair of sometimes-shaky performances - even one from headliner Leslie Andrews - can lay low this twisted tale, a true spit in the eye of all wretched, PG-13, reimagined 1970s classics stinking up the aisles lately. Sick Girl really earns its keep. With points off the bat for a soundtrack of grimy '70s synth drones - fetid and ominous - the movie throws us into Izzy's (Andrews) w...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=38064 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:16:36 PDT Highly Recommended Rosarigasinos: What at first seems like a shaggy dog story might become a very old-fashioned wistful tale of lost romance, or an amusing crime caper. The truth is Argentinean director Rodrigo Grande's 2001 film Rosarigasinos slyly blends many genres, constructing a constantly surprising experience wherein fate and friendship aren't always the best match. Rosarigasinos (Gangs of Rosario) finds two mobsters released from the Rosario prison 30 years after their incarceration. Tall, dapper Tito (Federico Luppi) and short, balding Castor (Ulises Dumont) find themselves stranded outside the stir on a rainy night. Vague confusion and difficulty lighting cigarettes mark their first night of freedom in three decades. Once members of a ballad-slinging jazz combo, (Tito on vocals and Castor on drums) the two wonder on the whereabouts of their old cohorts - gentlemen not only musically linked, but also...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=37817 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:33:00 PDT Skip It One great idea is all it takes to make a movie. The world is really just a computer simulation by robots enslaving the human race. A man lives his life unaware he's the star of the world's most popular reality television show. A grouch relives the same day over and over until he learns to value what's really important. Header takes a different tactic, posing a question instead: What is a "header"? That alone presents a challenge, it'd hard enough for the reveal to live up to expectations after building for 80 minutes, but luckily (I guess), the movie reveals the revolting but disappointing answer 20 minutes in, so those too lazy to scour IMDb, Wikipedia or MoviePooper.com for the answer will have their curiosity satisfied quickly. Unfortunately for me, I still had to slog through the remaining 70 minutes. Our story involves a series of terrible crimes out in a random set of West Virgini...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=37781 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:11:47 PDT Recommended Ahhh, Ginza. Gamblers paradise and gamblers hell. Land where the walls are littered with nudie pin-ups. As skilled with a pool cue or cards as she is with a sword, Nami (Meiko Kaji) returns to her old stomping grounds with a serious goal in mind: find her father's killer. Before she can even get her sandals on Giza concrete, Nami defends a young woman, Hanae, from some scurrilous gangsters. Hanae's father had a run of bad luck and sold off his unwilling daughter to cover gambling debts. Nami takes up the cause of winning, literally, Hanae's freedom, so her first steps back into Ginza society instantly draw the ire of the local crimelord Aiboshi. Nami gets Hanae a job as a nightclub hostess in a joint run by an old friend, Miyoko. She also crosses paths and finds an ally in low level pimp, Ryuji (Sonny Chiba). Aiboshi makes Nami an offer she should not refuse, to be his card dealer, which she lik...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=37780 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:06:41 PDT Recommended In 1971 with the two Wandering Ginza Butterfly films, actress and soon to be eternal cult icon Meiko Kaji made the switch from Nikkatsu Studios to Toei. The Ginza Butterfly duo would be a primer between her Stray Cat Rock youth gang films and the two series for which she would become most well known, the Lady Snowblood and Female Convict Scorpion films. After spilling some gangster blood in a gang battle, Nami (Meiko Kaji) is sentenced to prison and emerges three years later ready to live a somewhat straighter life, as straight as one can get when you've been raised in the low level crime world. Her main goal is to atone for her crime that left the gangster's wife alone without a breadwinner, sick, and with a child to raise. Nami first reconnects with her uncle, who runs a pool hall, a place where she practically grew up and honed some serious skills. Through Ryuji, a low...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=35906 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:38:26 PST Recommended The Movie: He'll take you to the brink of reality On October 28, 2008, Synapse Films released several cult titles on DVD that had been previously made available by Elite Entertainment. One such title was Thirst, an unusual pseudo-vampire flick made in Australia back in 1978. If you haven't caught this movie before, and you're a horror and / or vampire fan, then Thirst is definitely a title you'll want to check out. You can read my review of it here. Another Australian curiosity concurrently released on that date by Synapse was Dark Forces, a 1980 production that feels more than a bit like a mishmash of The Omen and Rasputin. I was completely unaware of this movie before receiving it to review, but I was pleasantly surprised with the intelligence of the script and the performances of the le...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=35599 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:21:46 PST Highly Recommended You don't have to be a fan of the exploitation film genre to appreciate the anthologies of vintage trailers released on DVD by Synapse Films. Entitled 42nd Street Forever, Volume 4: Cooled by Refrigeration, this latest release packs in more than two hours of trailers from the 1970s and '80s originally created to entice audiences of young adults into returning to the theater with promises of outrageous comedy, lurid violence, nudity, extreme action and special effects, and spine-tingling chills. Packed with nearly every special effect in the film and exposing nearly every plot twist, these trailers were super-concentrated films in their own rights often far better than the feature films they were intended to promote. Free of the eighty minutes of bad expository, lame j...Read the entire review ]]>