Grindhouse Trailer Classics Vol. 1 (2007)

Year: 2007
Studio: Nucleus Films

Grindhouse Trailer Classics Vol. 1

I got hold of this DVD through the wonder that is LoveFilm and it's tremendous. It's not something you can really review - two hours of trailers for films full of sex, violence, gore and some rather questionable acting. It's great to watch - like a window to a type of filmmaking that just doesn't happen anymore (except when Tarentino runs out of ideas again and decides to revisit the past). A lot of the films I wouldn't mind getting hold of tho some of them just aren't available (for example, "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S." is still banned in the UK). Nonetheless, it was a good afternoon spent watching trailers instead of doing what I was meant to be doing...

For those interested, here's a list of the trailers shown on the DVD:

I Drink Your Blood & I Eat Your Skin
The Blood Splattered Bride
I Dismember Mama
Switchblade Sisters
Caged Heat
Eyeball
Deranged
The Big Doll House
Bury me an Angel
The Last House on the Left
The Street Fighter
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
Dr Black & Mr Hyde
Don't Open the Window
The Human Tornado
Caged Virgins
Ebony Ivory Jade
Deadly Weapons
Torso
They Call her One Eye
Death Ship
Master of the Flying Guillotine
They Came from Within
The Thing with Two Heads
I Spit on Your Grave
Sweet Sugar
Girls for Rent
The Toolbox Murders
The Executioner
House of Whipcord
Truck Turner
God Told Me To
. Dr Butcher MD (Medical Deviate)
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Night of the Bloody Apes
Blood Sucking Freaks
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
The Single Girls
The Corpse Grinders
Zombie
Coffy
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak
The Legend of the Wolf Woman
Satan's Sadists
Disco Godfather
Let Me Die a Woman
The Doll Squad
Secrets of Sweet Sixteen
Cannonball
Autopsy
Fight for your Life
Love me Deadly
Wham! Bam! Thank You, Spaceman
Shogun Assassin
Three on a Meathook

Also on the DVD: Bump & Grind: A short documentary about Grindhouse Cinema presented by Emily Booth (wearing a crazily short skirt and seeming very proud of her legs - continually crossing and uncrossing like Kenny Everett in drag!). Interesting doc tho - suggests that films like Hostel & Saw (torture porn) are just revisiting the grindhouse era of Hershell Gordon Lewis et al. Doesn't sound like Emily Booth talking tho, it's too rehearsed - no wonder "Script by Stephen Thrower" according to the credits.

Grindhouse Classics Vol2 [2008]

Reviewer - @helen_of_horror

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