Fantastic Movie Trailers 9: Grindhouse Insanity

Released by: Montreal Film Studio
Release date: October 26th, 2010

Duration: 118 minutes

Video: eks 1.78:1, colour
Audio: 2.0 Mono, English
Subtitles: none

Region: 0 (NTSC)

Note from the distributor:

Named after the old burlesque theaters located on 42nd Street in New York City, where 'bump n' GRIND' dancing and striptease were featured, Grindhouses were theaters that mainly showed exploitation films during the 1970's. 

Changing economics forced these theatres to either close or offer something that television could not, mainly sleaze, slasher horror, and dubbed martial arts films which usually contained large amounts of sex, violence and bizarre subject matter. 

Quality varied, but low budget production values and poor print quality were common. By the 1980s, home video and cable channels killed the Grindhouses. 

Presented with period intermissions and titles, this Grindhouse trailers DVD is a sure-fire party hit!

Trailers:

01 EYEBALL
02 FEMALE ANIMAL
03 EVIL DEEP
04 THE ONE ARMED EXECUTIONER
05 SABATA
06 THE DOBERMAN GANG
07 THE NEW YORK RIPPER
08 SUPERCHICK
09 CONVOY
10 KAMA SUTRA
11 THE STRANGER AND THE GUNFIGHTER
12 HORROR HOUSE
13 SWEET JESUS PREACHER MAN
14 SUDDEN DEATH
15 RECORD CITY
16 AUTOPSY
17 DON’T TURN THE OTHER CHEEK
18 SLAVE TRADE
19 ALLIGATOR
20 THE CREEPER
21 THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE
22 INTERMISSION
23 BLACK ANGELS
24 SUMMER SCHOOL TEACHERS
25 BARRACUDA
26 RETURN OF SABATA
27 THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA
28 CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR
29 JAGUAR LIVES
30 THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU
31 H.O.T.S.
32 LIES
33 TORSO
34 THE PACK
35 SCORCHY
36 A TOWN CALLED HELL
37 STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER
38 SURVIVE!
39 HOT T-SHIRTS
40 DEEP RED
41 GRIM REAPER
42 SAVAGE STREETS
43 BEYOND THE DOOR
44 BOSS NIGGER
45 TENEBRAE
46 LITTLE MOTHER
47 MESSAGE FROM SPACE
48 DEMONOID

Extras:

• None.

Comment:
None.

Reviews:

• The Trailer Compilation Database
• Amazon Customer Reviews

Review: Fantastic Movie Trailers 9: Grindhouse Insanity

The ninth collection from Montreal Film Studio is pretty good! It will, like the artwork claims, be "a sure-fire party hit!" Like it's predecessors, this also mixes trailers from all kinds of genres. There's no system to what trailers next on the disc, and that is part of the fun. On this collection, there's a lot of giallos, which is a nice touch.

If you're a trailer comp fan, there's good chance you've seen many of this material before, not much new stuff. If you're just getting into trailers this collection would be a good startingpoint.

As the others in the series, this collection also has a few old intermissions inbetween the trailers, however, most of them are collected into one session.

Qualitywise, the trailers are scratcy on the video, and there are a few hisses here and there on the audio, but that's the way it should be! The bad thing is that there is some compression artefacts.. if you have a big screen, it could get annoying.

A fun collection worth seeing!

Jon Anders, 19.06.11

Fantastic Movie Trailers (Extended 2nd edition)

Released by: Montreal Film Studio
Release date: October 26th, 2010

Duration: 108 minutes

Video: 16:9, colour and black/white
Audio: 2.0 Mono, English, Japanese
Subtitles: English (on selected trailers)

Region: 0 (NTSC)

Note from the distributor:

Welcome to this compilation of fantastic movie trailers!

Throughout the history of cinema, trailers have been (and still are) the #1 tool to market a film. Through this compilation, you will discover the evolution of the film trailer from early drive-in classics & 70's Grindhouse Insanities to the VHS Madness of the 80's and beyond. 

Presented with period theater intermissions and titles, this DVD is a sure-fire party hit!

Trailers:

O1 SAVAGE
O2 THE STREETFIGHTER
O3 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH
O4 TERROR IN THE WAX MUSEUM
O5 COMBAT COPS
O6 HIGH SCHOOL HELLCATS
O7 KING SOLOMON’S MINES
O8 LONE RANGER
O9 ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN
1O DJANGO
11 THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMIBIES
12 THE DEADLY MANTIS
13 COFFY
14 JOURNEY TO THE 7TH PLANET
15 THE FLYING SAUCER
16 THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T
17 CONQUEST OF SPACE
18 CHLD BRIDE
19 THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN
20 DEAD AND BURIED
21 CRIPPLED MASTER
22 INVASION USA
23 FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS
24 TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN
25 THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLE
26 THE ASPHYX
27 INTERMISSION TIME!
28 FIVE DEADLY VENOMS
29 FOXY BROWN
30 IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
31 JUNGLE BOOK
32 TIME MACHINE
33 THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
34 THE LEECH WOMAN
35 THE BEAST WITHIN
36 VAMPIRE CIRCUS
37 REPTILICUS
38 CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
39 THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN
40 CHAIN GANG WOMAN
41 THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT
42 THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT
43 HOUSE OF WAX
44 THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN
45 REANIMATOR
46 THE REPTILE
47 BELA LUGOSI MEETS/ BROOKLYN GORILLA
48 BENEATH 12 MILE REEF
49 BRIDE OF THE GORILLA
50 MS. 45
51 “?”

Extras:

• None.

Comment:
This is the extended version of the first disc in the series, with twice the amount of trailers, and more period intermissions.

Beware that some stores could sell this as a made-on-demand DVD-R.

Reviews:

• The Trailer Compilation Database

Review: Fantastic Movie Trailers (Extended 2nd edition)

Fantastick Movie Trailers is a fun collection of trailers. It mixes a wide range of genres, from spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation, sci-fi, creature movies, and many more. Were many other compilations often stick to a few selected themes, this compilation has them all, all jumbled together. If you have seen many of these types of collections before, you'll probably see a few trailers you've already seen earlier. However, if you're new to trailer compilations, this disc will be a good starting point. It's not as good as for example the 42nd Street Forever-series, in my opinion, but it will keep you entertained for 108 minutes, with 50 trailers!

Between trailers there are some old intermissions and titles. Personally, I could do without those, never particularly liked them as I feel they interupts the “flow”. They are few tough, mostly collected in an “Intermission time!” in the middle of the show.

Quality on audio is pretty good. Video is, as you might expect, a little scratchy, but that is how it should be! The artwork on the DVD is pretty bad though... Thankfully, MFS have improved their design skills on later volumes in the series.

All in all, you should give this a try if you're into movie trailers and want to relax a couple of hours.

Jon Anders, 13.06.11