…the whole lot of genre movie trailer compilations, much
like the trailers themselves, has always been a mixed bag of sorts, as far as
the really good ones, intermingled with the ho-hum ones. Invariably, the best
ones out there, are the few and far between which genuinely go the extra mile,
as far as special…even unconventional presentation, for lack of a better term, rather
than merely juggling the same old mix of weathered, well-worn and oft-seen
trailers. When this reviewer, and long-since devoted genre movie trailer
collector, first succumbed to the collector’s allure of those eye-popping,
albeit quickly digestible movie condensations…often which were cleverly edited,
in so much as the trailers, in most cases, was genuinely better than the
full-length feature films themselves…the prime go-to source for these eclectic
compilations was the likes of people not unlike that of the late Mike Vraney’s
Something Weird Video, with their enticing and exploitative trailer collection
titles (…liberally rendered in a sort of random, hither-tither, maverick
junk-food fashion, including some deliciously psychedelic VHS box art, to boot),
including the ‘Dusk ‘til Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-rama Show’…the ‘Shiver and
Shudder Show’ (…Ooooo!! Ske-e-e-elly!!)…the hippie-crazed Johnny Legend-hosted ‘Bikers,
Blondes and Blood’…the equally insane, dy-no-mite & ‘outta sight’ rapper/hipster/gangsta’
meanderings of host Rudy Ray Moore, in ‘Afros, Macks & Zodiacs’. And who
couldn’t possibly keep from salivating uncontrollably over the down ‘n’ dirty prospects
suggested in Vraney’s over-the-top ‘Blood-o-rama Shock Show’, featuring a
promised ’50 Brain Slurpin’ Guts ‘n’ Gore Movie Trailers from the ‘60’s &
‘70’s…Oh, yum!!!...
