Trailer Trash
Published on: 11th February, 2010
A Selection of Sleazy Trailers That Taste Forgot |
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The marketing of horror movies these days seems a little uninspired. From the mediocre posters (often featuring headshots of the oh-so-pretty cast) to the uneventful trailers, filmmakers seem to do little to seduce and entice their viewers.
But back in the 1980’s, with the rise of home video forcing the independents to become increasingly inventive [...]
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Published on: 15th October, 2009
TRAILER TRASH - Perversion Story |
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A decade before becoming the master of gore with his notorious zombie flicks, Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci was still relatively unknown, despite having been directing for several years. Just two short years before finding acclaim with his giallo Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin), Fulci directed Una [...]
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Published on: 14th October, 2009
TRAILER TRASH - C.H.U.D. |
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The 1980s saw many filmmaker shake off the nihilistic and excessive tone of the previous decade’s exploitation and instead look back to the older days of fun monster movies. Following the likes of Lewis Teague’s Alligator and Larry Cohen’s Q: The Winged Serpent came C.H.U.D. (meaning Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller). Directed with a [...]
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Published on: 14th October, 2009
TRAILER TRASH - The Hidden |
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With the cult slasher Alone in the Dark and the hit sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge under his bealt, editor-turned-director Jack Sholder continued his successful run with the 1987 science fiction action horror The Hidden. Pre-dating Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday’s body swapping plot by six years [...]
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Published on: 12th October, 2009
TRAILER TRASH - Society |
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Having produced Re-animator and From Beyond for Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna eventually made his directorial debut with Society, a sick and twisted black comedy that showcased the filmmaker’s love for the bizarre. Blending the pomposity of Beverly Hills 90210 with a David Cronenberg-style warped imagination, the movie failed to find its audience at the [...]
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Published on: 10th October, 2009
TRAILER TRASH - The Incredible Melting Man |
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Rick Baker really helped raise the bar on special effects during the 1970s. Following in the footsteps of Dick Smith, Baker produced an array of grizzly and groundbreaking monsters and splatter set pieces, often giving credibility to otherwise ludicrous or mediocre offerings. William Sachs (who later shot the extremely camp Galaxina) gave us [...]
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Published on: 9th October, 2009
TRAILER TRASH - The Mutilator |
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When Friday the 13th scored a major triumph at the box office during the summer of 1980, it didn’t take long for every producer in town, from the studios down to the independents, to jump on what became the slasher bandwagon. Wannabe directors soon realized that with a meager budget and a cast of [...]
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Published on: 9th October, 2009
TRAILER TRASH - Nightmare in a Damaged Brain |
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Romano Scavolini’s 1981 shocker Nightmare is notorious for many things; from the never-ending debate as to who really created the special effects to its inclusion on the ‘Video Nasty’ list in the UK during the 1980s. Sleazy, amateur and sadistic, Nightmare (renamed by its British distributors as Nightmare in a Damaged Brain) was the [...]
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