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Trailers from HellPeeping Tom
The first Video Nasty came not only before video but from the esteemed Michael Powell, whose career was sidetracked into shorts for The Childrens' Film Foundation by this much maligned and misunderstood rumination on the dark powers of cinema. In the US it was relegated to skinflick houses and grindhouse second features.
2011-06-2102 min
Trailers from HellBlack Sunday AKA-Mask of the Demon
The worldwide success of Mario Bava's official directorial debut spurred the brilliant cinematographer on to a new career and made an international star of the entrancing Barbara Steele. U.S.distributor AIP changed the title and claimed it was too scary for anyone under the age of...well, 12.
2011-06-1402 min
Trailers from HellKronos
Jack Rabin and Irving Block were a couple of indie FX mavens whose works ranged from Night of the Hunter to Robot Monster. But one of their most offbeat creations was the giant alien robot Kronos, who wanted not Our Women but Our Energy. On its own terms it's a pretty nifty little picture, with an emblematic 50s sci-fi cast.
2011-06-0702 min
Trailers from HellInvaders From Mars
His 1935 "Things to Come" is more prestigious, but famed production designer Wm. Cameron Menzies reached his directorial zenith with this deliberately unreal "B" that has creeped out several generations of kids. The great Art Gilmore narrates a classic trailer for a seminal movie. In SuperCineColor!
2011-05-3102 min
Trailers from HellJourney to the Lost City
An exploitation picture staple was the cutdown feature version of the 12-chapter serial, but they were seldom directed by filmmakers as distinguished as Fritz Lang, who fled Hitler to become a Hollywood success. But in 1960 AIP bought two elaborate 1957 German-made Lang adventures and combined them into one hectic movie.
2011-05-2402 min
Trailers from HellEl Cid
Another enormous Samuel L. Bronston historical spectacle with big stars and epochal Euro production values, directed by the perennially underrated Anthony Mann, fresh from his being fired from Spartacus.
2011-05-1703 min
Trailers from HellThe Fiendish Ghouls
The truncated third US release (after earlier tries as "Mania'", then "The Psycho Killers'") of John Gilling's 1960 retelling of the Burke and Hare story that formed the basis for Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher". Cut by a reel and a half and aimed at the lowest of brows, this version ends with Donald Pleasence getting a torch in his face.
2011-05-1002 min
Trailers from HellDanger Diabolik
One of the great comic book movies of all time from the brilliant Italian director Mario Bava, whose visual dexterity was never widely appreciated during his lifetime. An uncharacteristically elaborate 1967 pop art production for which Bava nonetheless employed his usual lovingly hand-made in-camera tricks.
2011-05-0302 min
Trailers from HellDr. Terror's House of Horrors
Hammer competitor Amicus Films found their mojo with this 1964 multi-story horror omnibus, which led to countless iterations of the same formula, including their biggest hit "Tales from the Crypt". The genius of the portmanteau system was that the actors were often needed for only a few days, which allowed for casts that were almost ridiculously classy.
2011-04-2602 min
Trailers from HellThe Haunting
The subtle terror techniques that Robert Wise learned from his mentor Val Lewton are on uncanny display in the creepiest haunted house movie of them all. (The trailer's not too subtle, though.) Compare the original to the lamentable remake to see the difference between art and CGI junk.
2011-04-1902 min
Trailers from HellThe Black Sleep
Basil Rathbone's coldly obsessed Dr. Cadman looks like a dry run for Peter Cushing's Baron Frankenstein in this florid period monster rally with scary makeups by Gordon Bau. Akim Tamiroff's role was intended for Peter Lorre.
2011-04-1201 min
Trailers from HellThe Beast of Yucca Flats
By the time Swedish wrestler and best-selling Halloween mask Tor Johnson made this, his all-time worst picture, his career was behind him and the days of Ed Wood must have looked like Eden. The longest 54 minutes in movies.
2011-04-0502 min
Trailers from HellSweet Smell of Success
Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman's corrosive look at Power in America as typified by an unscrupulous and possibly insane Broadway columnist modeled on Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell. Brilliantly directed by the underrated Alexander Mackendrick. A must-see.
2011-03-2903 min
Trailers from HellTarantula
Universal was the leader in slickly produced 50s genre pix, and here's another eerie desert-set chiller from Jack Arnold with good special fx and creepy makeups. Leo G. Carroll, one of Hitchcock's favorite actors, classes up the joint as the scientist whose serum results in big buggery.
2011-03-2202 min
Trailers from HellSuspiria - International Version
Taking up the lurid mantel of Mario Bava, former film critic Dario Argento rocketed to international prominence with this highly influential giallo which spawned countless imitations. This is the international trailer made for export.
2011-03-1503 min
Trailers from HellSunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder royally p.o.'d most of the Hollywood establishment with this devastatingly dark yet moving take on the tragic decline of silent movie queen Norma Desmond (an unforgettable Gloria Swanson), pushed aside by an unfeeling industry. One of the all-time greats. "I AM big! It's the PICTURES that got small!"
2011-03-0803 min
Trailers from HellSon of Kong
Everybody's favorite director Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) is dodging bill collectors who want him to pay for King Kong's Big Apple antics and finds himself back on Skull Island with the lovely Helen Mack in this hastily-produced sequel. A family tragedy during production resulted in fx genius Willis O'Brien entrusting some of the animation to assistants.
2011-03-0102 min
Trailers from HellSilent Running
Stephen Bochco and Michael Cimino were among the writers of fx wizard Doug Trumbull's melancholy 1971 space odyssey, which has taken on belated luster in our globally steam-heated present. One of Bruce Dern's finest hours.
2011-02-2203 min
Trailers from HellRebel Without a Cause
It's pretty much a bromide that if James Dean had not died at his peak he might have ended up like Troy Donahue, but in this emblematic Nick Ray film, released after Dean's death in a 1955 auto accident, he continues to electrify new generations with his raw emotion.
2011-02-1502 min
Trailers from HellRaw Meat
A rather inelegant retitling of Gary Sherman's British thriller "Deathline", originally pitched to the grindhouse crowd but eventually rediscovered by critics and audiences on tv and video. One of Donald Pleasance's finest hours.
2011-02-0802 min
Trailers from HellQueen Of Outer Space
"Howdya like to drag that one to the High School Prom?" leers a horny astronaut while ogling the shapely acolytes of Queen Yllana, leader of the all-girl Venusian population. "I hate zat qveen", grumbles Chief Scientist Zsa Zsa Gabor, who doesn't appear to be in on the joke. Silly, spoofy and cheerfully chauvinistic, this one has many fans, some of them straight.
2011-02-0102 min
Trailers from HellPsych-Out
Dick Clark produced Richard Rush's ode to the Haight-Ashbury scene, filmed on location by Laszlo Kovacs in Psychedelic Color. Remember, as Dean Stockwell tells us, "all the games gotta go, or else it's just a plastic hassle"!
2011-01-2503 min
Trailers from HellPrivilege
Anticipating punk rock, Peter Watkins' semi-documentary study of a future society using music to enslave the masses appropriates some unauthorized reenactments from the National Film Board of Canada's groundbreaking Paul Anka docu "Lonely Boy". How Universal ended up distributing this is a mystery even they couldn't solve.
2011-01-1803 min
Trailers from HellNo Name On The Bullet
Sci-fi specialist Jack Arnold's best Western casts Audie Murphy against type -or is he?- as a cold-blooded hit man who just might be Death personified and brings fear to a town full of guilty people. An underrated gem.
2011-01-1102 min
Trailers from HellIt's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Although one wag said of director Stanley Kramer's all-star Cinerama extravaganza, "it shows what happens when a man who doesn't understand drama tries to do comedy", the years have been kind to it. Nostalgia for the once-in-a-lifetime ensemble cast alone would get it by, but the extravagant stunt work that seemed so unwhimsical in 1963 is now commonplace in movie comedy.
2011-01-0404 min
Trailers from HellMad Love
Peter Lorre's Hollywood debut is one of the weirder pix ever to come from MGM, or maybe anywhere else. One of ace cinematographer Karl Freund's rare forays into directing, and his last. Gregg Toland photographed it, and years later Pauline Kael would claim he stole a lot of shots from this to use in Citizen Kane!
2010-12-2802 min
Trailers from HellMr. Arkadin
Orson Welles' most mysterious film has him playing a sinister international tycoon who, like Charles Foster Kane, is obsessed with his past, which he can't remember -- or can he? A motley assortment of the director's pals fill out the various roles, including then-wife Paola Mori.
2010-12-2102 min
Trailers from HellKiss Me Stupid
Billy Wilder took a lotta brickbats for this "vulgar", "tasteless" and "crude" sex comedy set in Climax, Nevada, which was roundly condemned from pulpits and lecterns countrywide in 1964. Its sleazy reputation has been somewhat rehabilitated over the years as pop culture has raced to embrace such concepts as DNA hair gel and carnal relations with baked goods.
2010-12-1402 min
Trailers from HellThese Are The Damned
Fascinating mixture of science fiction and social comment from Hammer Films circa 1961. Rumored for a long-overdue dvd release, this bleak but moving atomic parable still packs a punch and was recently unveiled in its original cut on Turner Classic Movies over 40 years after its truncated release. With an emotion-packed score by James Bernard.
2010-12-0703 min
Trailers from HellThe Trip
Writer Jack Nicholson and star Peter Fonda told Roger Corman he couldn't make a movie about LSD without trying it at least once. So Roger took a caravan of pals to Big Sur, where he dutifully dropped acid and communed with the elements. Out of it all came his most personal and revealing film, a pop art time capsule that was banned in Britain for nearly a decade.
2010-11-3002 min
Trailers from HellThe Intruder
In 1961 Roger Corman took a flyer from his exploitation roots and made one from the heart, from Charles Beaumont's angry novel inspired by the rabble-rousing exploits of Southern racist John Kasper. When exhibitors refused to book it, Corman returned to Edgar Allan Poe and the movie disappeared into grindhouse hell under titles like Shame and I Hate Your Guts. William Shatner stars, but Corman's first choice was...Tony Randall!
2010-11-2302 min
Trailers from HellThe Innocents
Jack Clayton's masterpiece, one of the greatest cinematic ghost stories, is ill-served by this lowbrow trailer that sells it like a cheap Eurotrash import. Film debut of the lovely and talented Pamela Frankin.
2010-11-1603 min
Trailers from HellThe Cyclops
Giant monster specialist Bert I. Gordon's only somewhat improved followup to "King Dinosaur" was shot in 1955 but didn't make it to theaters til 1957, on a double bill with Ulmer's "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll", satisfying only the fans of pert starlet Gloria Talbott, who starred in both.
2010-11-0902 min
Trailers from HellSpartacus
Credited to Stanley Kubrick, taking over from Anthony Mann (whose casting choices appear in abundance), this troubled epic from revered Lefties Dalton Trumbo and Howard Fast has become a touchstone of 60s cinema and for good reason -- it's less pious and more honestly moving than the comparatively overblown Ben-Hur.
2010-11-0203 min
Trailers from HellRio Bravo
Howard Hawks' riposte to the likes of "High Noon" and "3:10 to Yuma" is one of the great Movie Star Westerns, cannily targeted at every demographic available.
2010-10-2602 min
Trailers from HellSuspiria
Edgar has his own thoughts on the very different American trailer that accompanied the US release of Argento's classic.
2010-10-1901 min
Trailers from HellScream of Fear
"Psycho" spawned a cottage industry of twist-ending killer-thrillers, and this modest Hammer entry is one of the best. Psycho's unconventional ad campaign also led to gambits like this one, pretending the movie was just too scary to show any actual footage in the trailer!
2010-10-1201 min
Trailers from HellMarnie
Another elaborate personalized Hitchcock trailer. His "sex mystery" followup to The Birds has its adherents, but Larry Cohen isn't one of them. Nice Bernard Herrmann score though, and the star of Family Plot has a supporting role.
2010-10-0505 min
Trailers from HellThe Revenge of Frankenstein
Terence Fisher returns to direct the first (and best?) of six sequels to the groundbreaking Curse of Frankenstein, bringing new complexity and plenty of gallows humor to the character of Baron Frankenstein, the alternately malevolent and admirable protagonist whose grand experiments just never seem to work out.
2010-09-2802 min
Trailers from HellFiend Without a Face
Renowned for the flying brains and sputtering gore of its final reel, this British sci-fi set in Canada has maintained semi-classic status over the decades despite the fact that it's actually pretty uneventful.
2010-09-2102 min
Trailers from HellExperiment in Terror
Comic director Blake Edwards revisits his noir roots in this 1962 suspense classic cannily filmed on San Francisco locations. One of the biggest hits of the early 60s. And one of the most unusual trailers.
2010-09-1403 min
Trailers from HellDon't Look Now
For his third outing as a director, cinematographer Nicolas Roeg came up with this sublimely creepy adaptation of a Daphne Du Maurier story shot on location in Venice. The simultaneous release of "The Exorcist" took some of the wind out of its sails in the US, but it's now considered a horror classic.
2010-09-0703 min
Trailers from HellDirty Duck
A satirical labor of love from animator Charles Swenson that ended up vying with "Fritz the Cat" for X-rated grindhouse playing time. There's a lot of wit and imagination on view, but hardly anyone ever saw the picture.
2010-08-3103 min
Trailers from HellDaughter of Dr. Jekyll
Low-budget auteur Edgar G. Ulmer, who gave us "Detour" and "Man from Planet X" proves you can't win 'em all with this derivative and nonsensical second-feature set in the 1800s, but shot in a Hancock Park mansion through whose windows 1957 cars can be seen driving by.
2010-08-2402 min
Trailers from HellDementia 13
Take the "D-13 Test" to find out if you're too crazy to see this shot-in-Ireland axe murder thriller from fledgling director Francis Ford Coppola. The gorgeous Luana Anders has one of her infrequent leads here, and Ronald Stein's score is one of his best.
2010-08-1703 min
Trailers from HellConfessions of an Opium Eater
Albert Zugsmith's shining moment in an amiably disreputable career that nonetheless included producing pix by Sirk, Welles and Jack Arnold. Only Fu Manchu is missing from this hypnotically retrograde yellow peril hallucination starring Vincent Price and half the Asian actors in Hollywood.
2010-08-1003 min
Trailers from HellCarnage
This is the international export trailer for Mario Bava's trend-setting 1971 murder spree, presented entirely in solarized images. This film has had so many titles over the years that we don't have room to list them, but the one that stuck was the brilliant US reissue title "Twitch of the Death Nerve".
2010-08-0303 min
Trailers from HellWinchester '73
The
first of eight collaborations between noir specialist Anthony Mann
and a newly flinty James Stewart, this psychological western exudes
corrosive post-war anxiety. It also trailblazed a groundbreaking
profit participation deal (engineered by Stewart's agent Lew
Wasserman) that transformed the industry. Dan Duryea shines in a
classic bad guy performance that defined his career.2010-07-2702 min
Trailers from HellWild in the Streets
AIP
toppers were floored by the unexpectedly positive reviews this
lightning-in-a-bottle satire garnered in the volatile political world
of 1968. The right movie at the right moment, it captured the mood of
a country in crisis and propelled star Christopher Jones into a
short-lived mainstream career that included a starring role in David
Lean's "Ryan's Daughter".2010-07-2002 min
Trailers from HellWhite Zombie
Sure
it's creaky, but this early talkie from poverty row was the first
zombie movie and visually it's still pretty cool. Bela Lugosi is the
indelibly named Murder Legendre, head zombie master on a Haitian
plantation where the dead don't charge for their labor. First takes
seem to be the rule, as there are a number of flubbed lines and
missed camera moves. This is the 1952 reissue trailer.2010-07-1303 min
Trailers from HellWhite Heat
Raoul
Walsh's most muscular gangster pic with an all-time great James
Cagney as Cody Jarrett, the psychotic killer that only a mother could
love. She's the underappreciated Margaret Wycherly, brilliant as the
most monstrous mom since Agrippina. But she doesn't get much
attention in the trailer.2010-07-0602 min
Trailers from HellThe War of the Worlds
George
Pal's pioneering H.G. Wells adaptation updates the action to 1953 Los
Angeles, with Oscar-winning state-of-the-art visual fx and sound
effects so great they're still in use today.2010-06-2902 min
Trailers from HellThe Time Machine
George
Pal's greatest work finds the humanity in H.G. Wells' classic, ably
served by Oscar-winning fx, Russ Garcia's memorable score and Rod
Taylor and Alan Young's warm performances. A touchstone for a
generation. Paul Frees seems quite enthusiastic about it!2010-06-2203 min
Trailers from HellTwitch of the Death Nerve
The
US trailer for Mario Bava's ecological killing field tries to talk us
out of seeing the movie!2010-06-1501 min
Trailers from HellThis Island Earth
One
of the bigger interplanetary spectacles of the 50s, and one of the
last films shot in 3-strip Technicolor, Universal's "Supreme
Excitement of Our Time" brought out the sense of wonder in a
generation of cold war tykes while scaring them half to death with
the unlikely but cool "Mutants": "similar to the
insect life on your own planet, but larger of course."2010-06-0802 min
Trailers from HellThem
Nine
years after Hiroshima the atomic chicken has come home to roost in
the shape of giant ants, soon to be followed by jumbo mutant
radioactive lizards, locusts, scorpions, etc. The near-biblical
template for the dozens of nuclear monster movies that followed it,
this is one of the most influential movies ever.2010-06-0104 min
Trailers from HellThe Naked Spur
This
1953 film was a rugged five-character psychological western and the
third collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony Mann.2010-05-2502 min
Trailers from HellThe Man of a Thousand Faces
For
their 1957 "Silver Jubilee", Universal offered this
occasionally accurate biopic of its biggest silent star, Lon Chaney,
as portrayed by the always reliable James Cagney.2010-05-1801 min
Trailers from HellThe Magic Christian
Long
before Gordon Gekko told us "greed is good", Sir Guy Grand
(Peter Sellers) embarked on a mad quest to prove that everyone has
their price. Terry Southern transforms his cynical novel into a
nihilistic lark full of celebrity cameos and Monty Python-esque gags,
some contributed by actual soon-to-be Python members.2010-05-1103 min
Trailers from HellThe Knack
Philadelphia-born
Director Richard Lester sandwiched this wacky paeon to Swinging '60s
London between "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!".
Based on Ann Jellicoe's play and notable as the fleeting screen
debuts of Jacqueline Bissett, Jane Birkin and Charlotte Rampling.2010-05-0402 min
Trailers from HellThe Girl Can't Help It
Former
animator Frank Tashlin sums up the 1950s in this hilarious
live-action cartoon, a Mad Magazine parody come to life. The first
major studio picture to showcase breakout rock&roll stars.2010-04-2703 minTrailers from HellHorror of Dracula
Terence
Fisher's seminal vampire triumph pits Cushing against Lee in their
greatest Hammer pairing and sets the pace for the next two decades of
movie horror. This is the original Universal theatrical trailer, not
the video reconstruction that appears on the Warner dvd.2010-04-2002 minTrailers from HellHouse of Bamboo
Former
tabloid reporter Sam Fuller's dynamic movies have been called crude
and primitive, but at their best they play like a punch in the jaw.
Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck believed in him and afforded the
indie-oriented Fuller his most mainstream commercial opportunities in
the 50s. This is the most exotic of the group.2010-04-1302 minTrailers from HellHow to Make a Monster
Remarkably
self-reflexive drive-in monster rally set at American International
Studios, whose execs are being murdered by actors in monster makeups.
Unofficial sequel to both Teenage Werewolf and Teenage Frankenstein.2010-04-0602 minTrailers from HellI Was a Teenage Werewolf
Lightning
in a bottle: AIP's penchant for making bargain- basement movies based
on title and poster research paid off in spades with this hugely
influential amalgam of juvenile delinquent and monster genres. The
surprise hit of 1957.2010-03-3002 minTrailers from HellImitation of Life
Fannie
Hurst's four-hankie bestseller had been filmed before in 1934, but
Douglas Sirk's 1959 remake, his last Hollywood film, is the one to
remember. Derided at the time by critics and audiences, it has come
to sum up Sirk's serial attack on the hypocritical institutions of
family and motherhood as practiced in '50s America.2010-03-2302 minTrailers from HellInternational House
The
long-vanished 1930s tradition of feature-length parades of vaudeville
and radio acts reaches its zenith with this racy pre-code vehicle for
performers both famous and forgotten. What we wanna know is, where
can we find more of Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd??!2010-03-1603 minTrailers from HellKing Solomon's Mines
"Actually
filmed in the wilds of the Dark Continent!" H. Rider Haggard's
adventure classic gets the MGM treatment with spectacular location
shooting that provided years of stock footage for cheaper jungle
pictures.2010-03-0903 minTrailers from HellThe Black Swan
A
great cast swashbuckles its way through Henry King's piratical
spectacular with an assist from Leon Shamroy's Oscar-winning
Technicolor cinematography. Splendid hokum in the overstuffed Darryl
Zanuck tradition.2010-03-0202 minTrailers from HellBlood Bath
Footage
from several different movies has been cannibalized for this sleazy
AIP favorite, which exists in alternate versions with various titles.
Jack Hill, one of the co-conspirators, gives his side of the story
for film scholars to pull out their hair over.2010-02-2302 minTrailers from HellBad Day At Black Rock
John
Sturges' formalist masterpiece is also a progressive studio movie
confronting post-WW2 racism. Andre Previn's possibly career-best
music score turns up again in, of all places, the "Forbidden
Planet" trailer!2010-02-1603 minTrailers from HellBlood of the Man Devil/House of the Black Death
When
is a movie not even a movie? When it's just a patchwork of senseless
footage cobbled together to make an unfinished project marginally
releasable. Even the trailer for this is a mess.2010-02-0902 minTrailers from HellThe Brain That Wouldn't Die
Shot
near Tarrytown, New York as "The Head That Wouldn't Die",
this sleazy little gem sat unreleased for two years until AIP picked
it up in 1962. Their numerous censor cuts for reasons of "good
taste" (as if!) have been since restored and the whole sordid
farrago is now available pretty much everywhere in its full, fuzzy
public domain gory, er, glory.2010-02-0202 minTrailers from HellThe Bride and the Beast
An
angora-loving gorilla sets his sights on the curvy heroine in this
bizarre Ed Wood jungle concoction that's evaded the Golden Turkey
brigade only because he didn't direct it. They don't make 'em like
this anymore, and anyway, they hardly ever did.2010-01-2602 minTrailers from HellBucket of Blood
2010-01-1901 minTrailers from HellOnce Upon A Time in the West
Sergio
Leone's 1968 masterpiece gives the lie to the term "spaghetti
western". In a hastily shortened version it was a box-office
disappointment in the U.S.but it played in the same theater in Paris
for years.2010-01-1203 minTrailers from HellThe Pit and the Pendulum
Probably
the best known of the AIP Corman/Poe series, circa 1961. Writer
Richard Matheson had to concoct an almost entirely new story
incorporating Poe's central situation. The great Paul Frees narrates
the trailer.2010-01-0502 minTrailers from HellShe Demons
Castaways
on a tropical island run by Nazi fugitives who turn native girls into
monsters! If that sounds appealing to you, then this threadbare 1958
drive-in cheapie is up your alley!2009-12-2902 minTrailers from HellThe Raven
Having
added some comedy to his earlier Poe trilogy "Tales of Terror",
Roger Corman went all out for humor in this popular 1963 entry, which
was nevertheless sold basically as a straight horror film. But the
image of Peter Lorre in a bird costume was kind of a tipoff...2009-12-2202 minTrailers from HellPsycho
A
most unusual trailer (almost a short subject at nearly 7 minutes
long) from 1960, when Hitchcock had merchandised himself a la Walt
Disney into one of the most recognizable movie directors on earth.
WARNING! MR. LANDIS REQUESTS YOU WATCH THIS TRAILER FIRST WITHOUT HIS
VOICEOVER TO ENJOY MR. HITCHCOCK'S NARRATION.2009-12-1506 minTrailers from HellThe Unearthly
If
you want monsters, this last gasp (circa 1957) of the old-fashioned
mad doctor movie delivers in spades. Made for a division of ABC
television.2009-12-0802 minTrailers from HellThe Terror
This
1963 offshoot of Roger Corman's popular Edgar Allan Poe series has
slipped into the public domain and is available on countless video
labels, usually in crummy looking prints... this is from an original
35mm Technicolor print.2009-12-0102 minTrailers from HellVillage of the Damned
A
"sleeper" is a boxoffice success that comes out of nowhere.
And no one expected this modest 1960 British import, based on John
Wyndham's "The Midwich Cuckoos", to catch the attention of
a worldwide audience and inspire its own (some think even better)
sequel.2009-11-2402 minTrailers from HellThe Vampire Lovers
The
first coproduction between England's Hammer Films and American
International Pictures is an appropriately lurid affair, with many
heaving bosoms showing the telltale marks of Carmilla, the lesbian
vampire. Not as arty as Roger Vadim's superior "Blood and
Roses", this was a big enough hit in 1970 to spawn two
pulchritudinous follow-ups, "Lust for a Vampire" and "Twins
of Evil".2009-11-1702 minTrailers from HellX - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
It's
not exactly "The Lost Weekend", but Oscar-winner Ray
Milland does pretty well for himself by this low-budget but
intriguingly Promethean 1963 sci-fi outing from Roger Corman, which
anticipates the alternate reality concepts of his later "The
Trip". Of course the trailer is more interested in the "X-ray
specs" aspects of the idea, like seeing through women's clothes!2009-11-1002 minTrailers from HellThe Incredible Petrified World
Petrified
is right! 30 percent new movie plus 70 percent stock footage equals
one of the more outrageous excuses for a feature film since, well,
since the previous Jerry Warren picture! But you gotta hand it to
Jerry -- he made Ed Wood look like Bernardo Bertolucci, but he got
these things made and people paid to see 'em!2009-11-0302 minTrailers from HellMonster From Mars A.K.A. Robot Monster
This
much maligned and conversely beloved 1953 cheapie, one of the most
bizarre and notorious "bad movies" ever, sports some
surprisingly imaginative use of 3-D. Sold to tv only a few months
after its theatrical release, it provided a surreal video jolt for
fifties tykes with its lurid end of the world scenario. With a cool
music score by the then-blacklisted Elmer Bernstein.2009-10-2702 minTrailers from HellThe Masque of the Red Death
This
time the Corman/Poe series moves to England for what is generally
considered the best film in the series. Tabloid news was made circa
1964 when costar Jane Asher's boyfriend visted the set: Paul
McCartney.2009-10-2002 minTrailers from HellHouse on Haunted Hill
William
Castle followed up "Macabre" with this trend-setting,
darkly comic quintessential B-picture whose 1959 success cemented
Vincent Price as a horror icon for the next two decades.2009-10-1302 minTrailers from HellHouse of Usher
First
in Roger Corman's profitable series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations,
this 1960 excursion into quality from AIP spawned an entire series
based on the idea that high school kids could watch them and then do
book reports without reading the originals!2009-10-0602 minTrailers from HellGod Told Me To A.K.A. Demon
Shot
guerilla-style all over New York City by celebrated maverick and TFH
contributor Larry Cohen, this is one crazy movie! A homicide spree
hits town and the perps have only one thing in common: they all say
"God told me to!" Apocalyptic to say the least!2009-09-2901 minTrailers from HellThe Fall of the Roman Empire
They
don't make 'em like this anymore: those huge sets and cast of
thousands aren't computer-generated but absolutely real, and those
1964-era actors are a darn sight more interesting than a lot of those
we have on hand today.2009-09-2204 minTrailers from HellFrom Hell It Came
An
indication of the attention to detail that distinguishes this 1957
triumph of concept over execution is that the walking tree monster
Tobonga (who terrorizes the tropical island of Griffith Park) is
identified as Baranga in this trailer!2009-08-1802 min
Trailers from HellCarnival of Souls
Kansas
industrial filmmaker Herk Harvey's barely-distributed 1962 ghost
story languished in obscurity for years, but has now taken its place
as one of the most influential indie productions of the sixties.2009-08-1102 minTrailers from HellColossus: The Forbin Project
Made
in 1968 and shelved for nearly two years, this is one of the most
intelligent science fiction pictures of its decade, but it failed to
find an audience. An updated remake has recently been announced.
Could we really be worse off with a computer running everything?2009-08-0403 minTrailers from HellAll That Heaven AllowsAnother lacerating depiction of the values of post-war middle-class Americans from Douglas Sirk, who Universal seemed to regard merely as their house soap-opera specialist. Once again a long-suffering spouse is put through the ringer; here it's widow Jane Wyman taking flak from the country club set as well as her selfish kids for her affair with much younger free spirit Rock Hudson.2009-07-2802 minTrailers from HellAbbott and Costello Meet FrankensteinAfter "Young Frankenstein", this is probably the best-loved horror comedy of all time and is more elaborately produced than the previous two serious Frankenstein films. Bela Lugosi's final turn as Dracula, and his last major studio picture. Great music score by Frank Skinner turned up in numerous subsequent A&C monster rallies.2009-07-2102 minTrailers from Hell20 Million Miles to EarthThe dino-like Ymir is one of Ray Harryhausen's most personable stop-motion creations and the last to benefit from his brilliant black-and-white lighting. Currently available in a lamentably colorized video version which shows Ray's work to its least advantage.2009-07-1402 minTrailers from Hell13 GhostsAiming squarely at the allowances of moppet readers of Famous Monsters of Filmland, William Castle followed "Percepto" with a new gimmick in 1960, "Illusion-O". Paul Frees' scary narration probably got him the job as the voice of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.2009-07-0802 minTrailers from HellAttack of the 50 Foot WomanWhen it was released on a 1958 double bill with "War of the Satellites", no one could have predicted that this mini-budget exploitation film would become one of the most famous titles in movie history.2009-06-2002 min