Regular readers know that we're big fans of director Joe Dante's site Trailers From Hell!, in which prominent film makers and scholars provide audio commentary on vintage movie trailers. Now Trailers From Hell! has released their first DVD of highlights from the site. Here is the official description:
Any movie can be great in 2 ½ minutes.
Trailers--you know, those fast-paced 2-to-4 minute theatrical promo
shorts that have preceded the Feature Attraction since the dawn of
sound? An exciting montage of all The Best Parts of a movie the
exhibitors want you to NEED to see! Full of swirling letters screaming
hyperbolic promises of THRILLS! ACTION! MYSTERY! ROMANCE! Packing all
the highlights of a whole picture into its own mini-movie in just a few
minutes!
THE BEST FROM TRAILERS FROM HELL!, Volume 1
showcases the cream of the award-winning website series, concentrating
on promos for horror, science fiction and fantasy films which viewers
can watch both as originally intended or accompanied by pithy commentary
by Trailers from Hell Gurus: Joe Dante (Gremlins), John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Mick Garris (The Stand), Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) and Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead).
The trailers and commentaries are:
Joe Dante - The Tingler, Blood and Roses, Curse of Frankenstein, Earth vs. Flying Saucers
Mick Garris - Rabid, The Valley of Gwangi, Scream and Scream Again, Horrors of the Black Museum
John Landis - Curse of the Werewolf, Green Slime, Private Parts, Mighty Joe Young
Eli Roth - Squirm, The Birds, 3 on a Meathook, Forbidden Planet
Edgar Wright - Corruption, The Sentinel, Silent Running, Phantom of the Paradise
Included as an added bonus is the 1933 Majestic Pictures horror classic, The Vampire Bat, as well as two animated cartoon classics: Foster & Bailey's The Haunted Ship (1930) and Ub Iwerks' The Headless Horseman (1934).
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