Color, 2017, 181 mins. 33 secs..
Garagehouse Pictures (Blu-ray) (US R0 HD) / WS (1.78:1) (16:9)
Color, 2017, 181 mins. 33 secs..
Garagehouse Pictures (Blu-ray) (US R0 HD) / WS (1.78:1) (16:9)
often overlooked 
cousin to the theatrical trailer is the TV spot, that short and sweet mini-promotion for a
film that has to grab a viewer by the throat in 15, 30, or 60 seconds. You'll occasionally see TV spots turn up on special editions of a movie here and there, but for the most part, it's something that rarely gets much attention at all. Fortunately that situation has been corrected with an installment in the astonishing Trailer Trauma series (following volumes one, two, and three), with over three hours of mind-melting, bite-sized promos covering everything from blaxploitation to gialli to slasher films (and even a bit of sexploitation). It's a far cry from the homogenized commercials you see on TV now, and once again, the entertainment value here is so through the roof that the entire running time passes by before you even know it. 
That said, here's a rundown of what's in store for the curious; it would take a novel to cover the details of each film, so instead, here's how it breaks down roughly by category. 
First it's a helping of thirty '70s drive-in perennials from Roger Corman (in some capacity or another, usually via New World) with David Cronenberg's Rabid, Deathsport, The Big Bird Cage, Caged Heat, Women in Cages, Woman Hunt, The Cremators, Candy Stripe Nurses, Night Call Nurses, Street Girls, Big Bad Mama, Crazy Mama, Lady Frankenstein, Tidal Wave, Bury Me an Angel, Angels Hard as They Come, Starcrash, Up from the Depths, Last Days of Man on Earth, The Velvet Vampire paired up with Scream of the Demon Lover, Summer School Teachers, The Student Teachers, Fly Me, Cockfighter, Fantastic Planet, Sweet Kill, The Brood, Galaxy of Terror, Piranha, and Humanoids from the Deep. Then we get into more general '70s horror territory with Slithis, Zaat, The Twilight People, Private Parts, Deranged, The Toolbox Murders, Abby, Human Experiments, and Folks at Red Wolf Inn, which leads into a lengthy plunge into the same decade's Euro horror wave with Eyeball, Autopsy, a quick odd man out entry with Shock Waves, The Rape Killer, a combo of Eyeball and Suspiria, The Evil Eye, The Black Cat, Dr. Butcher M.D., the infamous Orgy of the Dead triple feature, The Girl in Room 2A, Torso, The Last Survivor, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Tempter, Great White, Killer Fish, The Cat o' Nine Tails, Suspiria by itself, Baron Blood, 
The Night Child, a double bill of Black Belly of the Tarantula and The Weekend Murders, Man from Deep River, Beyond the Door, Beyond the Door II 
(a.k.a. Shock), a combo of Beyond the Door 2 and The Dark, Next! (a.k.a. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh), Creepers (the cut-down version of Phenomena), and a combo of Castle of Blood and Hercules in the Haunted World. 
Then it's back to '70s horror with a vengeance with a wild stretch of occult and monster offerings: 
Mark of the Devil, Night of the Lepus, Race with the Devil, The Hills Have Eyes, Sisters, Mark of the Devil II, The Devil's Rain, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, They Came from Within, Dracula's Dog, Satan's Cheerleaders, The Exorcist, The Fury, Black Christmas, Schizoid, Don't Open the Window, The House That Vanished, The Blood Spattered Bride, Psychic Killer, The Medusa Touch, Drive-In Massacre, Son of Blob, The Devil's Nightmare, Theater of Blood, The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, Equinox, Tourist Trap, Phantasm (an '80s reissue one), the crazed combo of Curse of the Headless Horseman and Carnival of Blood, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Night Visitor, When the Screaming Starts, End of the World, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Vampyres, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Jaws, The Sentinel, Carrie, The Mutations, Son of Dracula (a cool, very rare spot), Dracula Sucks, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Night of the Bloody Apes, Blood Orgy of the She-Devils, The Devils, Don't Look Now, Lord Shango, A Name for Evil, Homebodies, Don't Look in the Basement, Dead of Night, Shanks, Grizzly, Day of the Animals, and Rattlers. 
Swedish Flygirls, The Sin of Adam and Eve, Beyond Atlantis, Summer Camp, 
Supervixens (an amazing spot!), Troma's Waitress, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Massage Parlor Hookers, The Swinging Cheerleaders, The Cheerleaders, How Much Loving Does a Normal Couple Need? (a retitling of Meyer's Common Law Cabin), Incoming Freshmen, Tomcats, Shame of the Jungle, Flesh Gordon, Hustler Squad, Class of 1984, King Frat, The Bod Squad, When Women Had Tails, When Women Lost Their Tails, Tarzana the Wild Girl, Bigfoot, A*P*E, No Mercy Man, and Chain Gang Women. Then guess what? More horror! It's time for The Giant Spider Invasion, The Child, The Redeemer, Blood Demon (the Christopher Lee one), Cannibal Girls, Land of the Minotaur, Massacre at Central High, Death Ship, The Thing, Halloween II, The Awakening, Horror Planet, Bloodeaters, Videodrome, Alone in the Dark, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Xtro, Amityville II: The Possession, The Fog, The Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th Part 2, Motel Hell, Blind Date, The Unseen, Graduation Day, Death Screams, The Children, Don't Go in the House, Mother's Day, My Bloody Valentine, Screams of a Winter's Night, The Beast Within, Deadly Blessing, He Knows You're Alone, Demon Seed, The Car, Mansion of the Doomed, a great reissue double bill for John Carpenter's Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13, The Tenant, Legend of Boggy Creek, Tintorera, Inseminoid (again under its original title instead of Horror Planet), The Incubus, Frogs, Blue Sunshine, Halloween, Phantasm (for its original release), The Amityville Horror, Killer's Delight, Kiss of the Tarantula, that Embassy two-fer of Phantasm and The Fog, and finally, an MGM triple bill in 1972 for Mark of the Vampire, The Mask of Fu Manchu, and the Fredric March version of Dr. 
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 
