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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Celluloid Bloodbath: More Prevues from Hell



More horror prevues from the 60’s and 70’s.  The format has changed a little from the last one though where instead of all bad jokes and zombies crashing an empty theater the filmmakers got horror film fanatics and actors to say a quick little something every two trailers or so.  Happy the zombie puppet is back but he’s barely in it so don’t even worry about it.  Overall I like the approach they used here better but most of the blurbs are uninteresting.  A bunch of them are as lazy as something like “the next prevue is [insert movie here] which was shown at drive-ins”.  For me the most interesting segment was definitely William Forsythe’s (Out for Justice, The Devil’s Rejects).  He talks briefly about how he doesn’t care for horror pictures but loves thrillers.  Finally, the trailers are categorized this time (vampires, supernatural, etc.) which works fine.

There were a lot more movies I had heard of before and seen in this installment: The Exorcist, Suspiria, The Gore Gore Girls, Cannibal Holocaust, It’s Alive, They Came from Within (aka Shivers), The Crawling Hand, The Horror of Party Beach, Squirm and Monster A-Go-Go (those last four I saw, as I’m sure most of you did, through Mystery Science Theater 3000).  Some trailers were way weirder than what they showed in Prevues from Hell.  Like there’s The Baby that involves a grown man that acts and gets treated like an infant from his abusive mother and The Worm Eaters where it looks like people ate actual live worms for this fucking flick.  Also I didn’t know that the Crispin Glover movie Willard was a remake of a 70’s picture of the same name.  So you may be familiar with more of the trailers in this one but the strange ones are fucking out there.

If you liked Mad Ron’s Prevues from Hell then you’ll like this.  More of the same.   

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