Out of all these movies which make up two hours worth of trailers, I've only seen:
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Blood Sucking Freaks
I Spit On Your Grave
Autopsy
The Street Fighter
Don't Open the Window (actually one of my favorite films of all time, which I own as Let Sleeping Corpses Lie)
Zombie
Coffy
And, just for the record, I would never watch I Spit On Your Grave again!
I only have an interest in adding to the list of those I've watched:
Torso
Eyeball
Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde
Master of the Flying Guillotine
They Came From Within
God Told Me To
Bury Me an Angel
Dr. Butcher, M.D.
While most of the trailers run together in one's mind as a lot of pathetic substitutes for porn from a time before home video, a few are notable. The double feature of I Dismember Mama/The Blood Spattered Bride is presented as a news report outside the theater where one man is brought out in a strait jacket and another seems to need one. The Executioner trailer features the oddly upbeat song "Tik a Tee Tik a Tay." Zombie ends with a notice that a barf bag will be provided upon request. Satan's Sadists advises squeamish viewers to head to the concession stand rather than watch the trailer; it also has an inappropriate song, a swingin' version of "Is It Better To Have Loved and Lost." Both Switchblade Sisters and The Big Doll House have scenes of someone getting their head stuck in a toilet. Caged Heat and It Came From Within both feature the lovely Barbara Steele.
The Single Girls describes the killer as "a boobie snatcher, a tit maniac" and promises that the girls will "tingle your dingle." Like Secrets of Sweet Sixteen, The Single Girls looks like a sex comedy but then they hit you at the end with a sort of "oh, and by the way, they're being stalked by a satanic cult/killer." Why bother? Were there really guys who were willing to go look at teen boobs but drew the line at a horror movie and so needed to be warned? Love Me Deadly has a little bit of fine print under the title card that reads "A film about necrophilia (sexual attraction for corpses)." I wish I lived in a time when necrophilia wasn't common knowledge, but instead had to be explained. But hey y'all, this is the internet. Nothing is obscure.
And now, thanks to the goddamn internet, on to my first viewing of Eyeball.
2 comments:
Ah, I have this trailer DVD. I never really watched it all the way through, but I guess you don't really need to. It's a good 'stick it on for a bit while you're finishing the Pizza' sort of disk.
I'd pass on Dr Butcher M.D. as it's a cut-down version of Zombie Holocaust, so if you do want to see it then find the proper version. It's worth watching for the outboard motor death scene alone. Plot wise it's just a direct rip-off of Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters (Zombie / Zombi2) though, but still a good fun flick.
Okay, I thought they had renamed it just to fool American audiences into going out to see it more than once. I will definitely track down the Zombie Holocaust version.
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