Trailers from Hell

Trailers from Hell

101 episodes

Trailers from Hell showcases classic previews of past movie attractions punctuated with humorous commentary by iconic filmmakers. The series includes Joe Dante (Gremlins) on horror movie The Terror and Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) praising one of his seminal influences Danger: Diabolik.

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Peeping Tom

Published: June 21, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds \\n

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.

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Black Sunday AKA-Mask of the Demon

Published: June 14, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds \\n

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.

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Kronos

Published: June 7, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 24 seconds

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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.

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Invaders From Mars

Published: May 31, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds \\n

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!

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Journey to the Lost City

Published: May 24, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds \\n

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.

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El Cid

Published: May 17, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds \\n

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.

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The Fiendish Ghouls

Published: May 10, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds \\n

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.

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Danger Diabolik

Published: May 3, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds \\n

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.\\xa0 An uncharacteristically elaborate 1967 pop art production for which Bava nonetheless employed his usual lovingly hand-made in-camera tricks.

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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Published: April 26, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 1 second \\n

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.

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The Haunting

Published: April 19, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds \\n

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.

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The Black Sleep

Published: April 12, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds \\n

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.

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The Beast of Yucca Flats

Published: April 5, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 5 seconds \\n

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.

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Sweet Smell of Success

Published: March 29, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds \\n

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.

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Tarantula

Published: March 22, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds \\n

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.

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Suspiria - International Version

Published: March 15, 2011, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds \\n

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.

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Sunset Boulevard

Published: March 8, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds \\n

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!"

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Son of Kong

Published: March 1, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds \\n

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.

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Silent Running

Published: Feb. 22, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 5 seconds \\n

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.

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Rebel Without a Cause

Published: Feb. 15, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds \\n

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.

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Raw Meat

Published: Feb. 8, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds \\n

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.

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Queen Of Outer Space

Published: Feb. 1, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds \\n

"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.

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Psych-Out

Published: Jan. 25, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 20 seconds \\n

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"!

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Privilege

Published: Jan. 18, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds \\n

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.

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No Name On The Bullet

Published: Jan. 11, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds \\n

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.

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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Published: Jan. 4, 2011, 5 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds \\n

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.

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Mad Love

Published: Dec. 28, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 29 seconds

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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!

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Mr. Arkadin

Published: Dec. 21, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds \\n

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.

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Kiss Me Stupid

Published: Dec. 14, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds \\n

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.

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These Are The Damned

Published: Dec. 7, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 27 seconds \\n

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.

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The Trip

Published: Nov. 30, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds \\n

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.

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The Intruder

Published: Nov. 23, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds \\n

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!

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The Innocents

Published: Nov. 16, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 5 seconds \\n

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.

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The Cyclops

Published: Nov. 9, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds \\n

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.

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Spartacus

Published: Nov. 2, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds \\n

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.

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Rio Bravo

Published: Oct. 26, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds

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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.

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Suspiria

Published: Oct. 19, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds \\n

Edgar has his own thoughts on the very different American trailer that accompanied the US release of Argento\'s classic.

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Scream of Fear

Published: Oct. 12, 2010, 4 a.m.
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"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!

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Marnie

Published: Oct. 5, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 7 seconds \\n

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.

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The Revenge of Frankenstein

Published: Sept. 28, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes \\n

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.

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Fiend Without a Face

Published: Sept. 21, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds \\n

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.

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Experiment in Terror

Published: Sept. 14, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds \\n

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.

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Don't Look Now

Published: Sept. 7, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds \\n

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.

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Dirty Duck

Published: Aug. 31, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds \\n

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.

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Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

Published: Aug. 24, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds \\n

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.

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Dementia 13

Published: Aug. 17, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds \\n

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.

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Confessions of an Opium Eater

Published: Aug. 10, 2010, 7:07 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds \\n

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.

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Carnage

Published: Aug. 3, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 46 seconds \\n

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".

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Winchester '73

Published: July 27, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds \\n

The\\nfirst of eight collaborations between noir specialist Anthony Mann\\nand a newly flinty James Stewart, this psychological western exudes\\ncorrosive post-war anxiety. It also trailblazed a groundbreaking\\nprofit participation deal (engineered by Stewart\'s agent Lew\\nWasserman) that transformed the industry. Dan Duryea shines in a\\nclassic bad guy performance that defined his career.

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Wild in the Streets

Published: July 20, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds \\n

AIP\\ntoppers were floored by the unexpectedly positive reviews this\\nlightning-in-a-bottle satire garnered in the volatile political world\\nof 1968. The right movie at the right moment, it captured the mood of\\na country in crisis and propelled star Christopher Jones into a\\nshort-lived mainstream career that included a starring role in David\\nLean\'s "Ryan\'s Daughter".

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White Zombie

Published: July 13, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 2 seconds \\n

Sure\\nit\'s creaky, but this early talkie from poverty row was the first\\nzombie movie and visually it\'s still pretty cool. Bela Lugosi is the\\nindelibly named Murder Legendre, head zombie master on a Haitian\\nplantation where the dead don\'t charge for their labor. First takes\\nseem to be the rule, as there are a number of flubbed lines and\\nmissed camera moves. This is the 1952 reissue trailer.

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White Heat

Published: July 6, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds \\n

Raoul\\nWalsh\'s most muscular gangster pic with an all-time great James\\nCagney as Cody Jarrett, the psychotic killer that only a mother could\\nlove. She\'s the underappreciated Margaret Wycherly, brilliant as the\\nmost monstrous mom since Agrippina. But she doesn\'t get much\\nattention in the trailer.

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The War of the Worlds

Published: June 29, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds \\n

George\\nPal\'s pioneering H.G. Wells adaptation updates the action to 1953 Los\\nAngeles, with Oscar-winning state-of-the-art visual fx and sound\\neffects so great they\'re still in use today.

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The Time Machine

Published: June 22, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 4 seconds \\n

George\\nPal\'s greatest work finds the humanity in H.G. Wells\' classic, ably\\nserved by Oscar-winning fx, Russ Garcia\'s memorable score and Rod\\nTaylor and Alan Young\'s warm performances. A touchstone for a\\ngeneration. Paul Frees seems quite enthusiastic about it!

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Twitch of the Death Nerve

Published: June 15, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds \\n

The\\nUS trailer for Mario Bava\'s ecological killing field tries to talk us\\nout of seeing the movie!

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This Island Earth

Published: June 8, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds \\n

One\\nof the bigger interplanetary spectacles of the 50s, and one of the\\nlast films shot in 3-strip Technicolor, Universal\'s "Supreme\\nExcitement of Our Time" brought out the sense of wonder in a\\ngeneration of cold war tykes while scaring them half to death with\\nthe unlikely but cool "Mutants": "similar to the\\ninsect life on your own planet, but larger of course."

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Them

Published: June 1, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 22 seconds \\n

Nine\\nyears after Hiroshima the atomic chicken has come home to roost in\\nthe shape of giant ants, soon to be followed by jumbo mutant\\nradioactive lizards, locusts, scorpions, etc. The near-biblical\\ntemplate for the dozens of nuclear monster movies that followed it,\\nthis is one of the most influential movies ever.

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The Naked Spur

Published: May 25, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds \\n

This\\n1953 film was a rugged five-character psychological western and the\\nthird collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony Mann.

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The Man of a Thousand Faces

Published: May 18, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds \\n

For\\ntheir 1957 "Silver Jubilee", Universal offered this\\noccasionally accurate biopic of its biggest silent star, Lon Chaney,\\nas portrayed by the always reliable James Cagney.

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The Magic Christian

Published: May 11, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds \\n

Long\\nbefore Gordon Gekko told us "greed is good", Sir Guy Grand\\n(Peter Sellers) embarked on a mad quest to prove that everyone has\\ntheir price. Terry Southern transforms his cynical novel into a\\nnihilistic lark full of celebrity cameos and Monty Python-esque gags,\\nsome contributed by actual soon-to-be Python members.

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The Knack

Published: May 4, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds \\n

Philadelphia-born\\nDirector Richard Lester sandwiched this wacky paeon to Swinging \'60s\\nLondon between "A Hard Day\'s Night" and "Help!".\\nBased on Ann Jellicoe\'s play and notable as the fleeting screen\\ndebuts of Jacqueline Bissett, Jane Birkin and Charlotte Rampling.

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The Girl Can't Help It

Published: April 27, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 2 seconds \\n

Former\\nanimator Frank Tashlin sums up the 1950s in this hilarious\\nlive-action cartoon, a Mad Magazine parody come to life. The first\\nmajor studio picture to showcase breakout rock&roll stars.

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Horror of Dracula

Published: April 20, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds \\n

Terence\\nFisher\'s seminal vampire triumph pits Cushing against Lee in their\\ngreatest Hammer pairing and sets the pace for the next two decades of\\nmovie horror. This is the original Universal theatrical trailer, not\\nthe video reconstruction that appears on the Warner dvd.

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House of Bamboo

Published: April 13, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds \\n

Former\\ntabloid reporter Sam Fuller\'s dynamic movies have been called crude\\nand primitive, but at their best they play like a punch in the jaw.\\nFox\'s Darryl F. Zanuck believed in him and afforded the\\nindie-oriented Fuller his most mainstream commercial opportunities in\\nthe 50s. This is the most exotic of the group.

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How to Make a Monster

Published: April 6, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 49 seconds \\n

Remarkably\\nself-reflexive drive-in monster rally set at American International\\nStudios, whose execs are being murdered by actors in monster makeups.\\nUnofficial sequel to both Teenage Werewolf and Teenage Frankenstein.

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I Was a Teenage Werewolf

Published: March 30, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 29 seconds \\n

Lightning\\nin a bottle: AIP\'s penchant for making bargain- basement movies based\\non title and poster research paid off in spades with this hugely\\ninfluential amalgam of juvenile delinquent and monster genres. The\\nsurprise hit of 1957.

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Imitation of Life

Published: March 23, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds \\n

Fannie\\nHurst\'s four-hankie bestseller had been filmed before in 1934, but\\nDouglas Sirk\'s 1959 remake, his last Hollywood film, is the one to\\nremember. Derided at the time by critics and audiences, it has come\\nto sum up Sirk\'s serial attack on the hypocritical institutions of\\nfamily and motherhood as practiced in \'50s America.

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International House

Published: March 16, 2010, 4 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 27 seconds \\n

The\\nlong-vanished 1930s tradition of feature-length parades of vaudeville\\nand radio acts reaches its zenith with this racy pre-code vehicle for\\nperformers both famous and forgotten. What we wanna know is, where\\ncan we find more of Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd??!

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King Solomon's Mines

Published: March 9, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds \\n

"Actually\\nfilmed in the wilds of the Dark Continent!" H. Rider Haggard\'s\\nadventure classic gets the MGM treatment with spectacular location\\nshooting that provided years of stock footage for cheaper jungle\\npictures.

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The Black Swan

Published: March 2, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds \\n

A\\ngreat cast swashbuckles its way through Henry King\'s piratical\\nspectacular with an assist from Leon Shamroy\'s Oscar-winning\\nTechnicolor cinematography. Splendid hokum in the overstuffed Darryl\\nZanuck tradition.

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Blood Bath

Published: Feb. 23, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds \\n

Footage\\nfrom several different movies has been cannibalized for this sleazy\\nAIP favorite, which exists in alternate versions with various titles.\\nJack Hill, one of the co-conspirators, gives his side of the story\\nfor film scholars to pull out their hair over.

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Bad Day At Black Rock

Published: Feb. 16, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 46 seconds \\n

John\\nSturges\' formalist masterpiece is also a progressive studio movie\\nconfronting post-WW2 racism. Andre Previn\'s possibly career-best\\nmusic score turns up again in, of all places, the "Forbidden\\nPlanet" trailer!

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Blood of the Man Devil/House of the Black Death

Published: Feb. 9, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes \\n

When\\nis a movie not even a movie? When it\'s just a patchwork of senseless\\nfootage cobbled together to make an unfinished project marginally\\nreleasable. Even the trailer for this is a mess.

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The Brain That Wouldn't Die

Published: Feb. 2, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 11 seconds \\n

Shot\\nnear Tarrytown, New York as "The Head That Wouldn\'t Die",\\nthis sleazy little gem sat unreleased for two years until AIP picked\\nit up in 1962. Their numerous censor cuts for reasons of "good\\ntaste" (as if!) have been since restored and the whole sordid\\nfarrago is now available pretty much everywhere in its full, fuzzy\\npublic domain gory, er, glory.

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The Bride and the Beast

Published: Jan. 26, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds \\n

An\\nangora-loving gorilla sets his sights on the curvy heroine in this\\nbizarre Ed Wood jungle concoction that\'s evaded the Golden Turkey\\nbrigade only because he didn\'t direct it. They don\'t make \'em like\\nthis anymore, and anyway, they hardly ever did.

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Bucket of Blood

Published: Jan. 19, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds

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Once Upon A Time in the West

Published: Jan. 12, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds \\n

Sergio\\nLeone\'s 1968 masterpiece gives the lie to the term "spaghetti\\nwestern". In a hastily shortened version it was a box-office\\ndisappointment in the U.S.but it played in the same theater in Paris\\nfor years.

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The Pit and the Pendulum

Published: Jan. 5, 2010, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds \\n

Probably\\nthe best known of the AIP Corman/Poe series, circa 1961. Writer\\nRichard Matheson had to concoct an almost entirely new story\\nincorporating Poe\'s central situation. The great Paul Frees narrates\\nthe trailer.

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She Demons

Published: Dec. 29, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 11 seconds \\n

Castaways\\non a tropical island run by Nazi fugitives who turn native girls into\\nmonsters! If that sounds appealing to you, then this threadbare 1958\\ndrive-in cheapie is up your alley!

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The Raven

Published: Dec. 22, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds \\n

Having\\nadded some comedy to his earlier Poe trilogy "Tales of Terror",\\nRoger Corman went all out for humor in this popular 1963 entry, which\\nwas nevertheless sold basically as a straight horror film. But the\\nimage of Peter Lorre in a bird costume was kind of a tipoff...

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Psycho

Published: Dec. 15, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds \\n

A\\nmost unusual trailer (almost a short subject at nearly 7 minutes\\nlong) from 1960, when Hitchcock had merchandised himself a la Walt\\nDisney into one of the most recognizable movie directors on earth.\\nWARNING! MR. LANDIS REQUESTS YOU WATCH THIS TRAILER FIRST WITHOUT HIS\\nVOICEOVER TO ENJOY MR. HITCHCOCK\'S NARRATION.

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The Unearthly

Published: Dec. 8, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds \\n

If\\nyou want monsters, this last gasp (circa 1957) of the old-fashioned\\nmad doctor movie delivers in spades. Made for a division of ABC\\ntelevision.

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The Terror

Published: Dec. 1, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds \\n

This\\n1963 offshoot of Roger Corman\'s popular Edgar Allan Poe series has\\nslipped into the public domain and is available on countless video\\nlabels, usually in crummy looking prints... this is from an original\\n35mm Technicolor print.

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Village of the Damned

Published: Nov. 24, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 24 seconds \\n

A\\n"sleeper" is a boxoffice success that comes out of nowhere.\\nAnd no one expected this modest 1960 British import, based on John\\nWyndham\'s "The Midwich Cuckoos", to catch the attention of\\na worldwide audience and inspire its own (some think even better)\\nsequel.

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The Vampire Lovers

Published: Nov. 17, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds \\n

The\\nfirst coproduction between England\'s Hammer Films and American\\nInternational Pictures is an appropriately lurid affair, with many\\nheaving bosoms showing the telltale marks of Carmilla, the lesbian\\nvampire. Not as arty as Roger Vadim\'s superior "Blood and\\nRoses", this was a big enough hit in 1970 to spawn two\\npulchritudinous follow-ups, "Lust for a Vampire" and "Twins\\nof Evil".

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X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

Published: Nov. 10, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 39 seconds \\n

It\'s\\nnot exactly "The Lost Weekend", but Oscar-winner Ray\\nMilland does pretty well for himself by this low-budget but\\nintriguingly Promethean 1963 sci-fi outing from Roger Corman, which\\nanticipates the alternate reality concepts of his later "The\\nTrip". Of course the trailer is more interested in the "X-ray\\nspecs" aspects of the idea, like seeing through women\'s clothes!

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The Incredible Petrified World

Published: Nov. 3, 2009, 5 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds \\n

Petrified\\nis right! 30 percent new movie plus 70 percent stock footage equals\\none of the more outrageous excuses for a feature film since, well,\\nsince the previous Jerry Warren picture! But you gotta hand it to\\nJerry -- he made Ed Wood look like Bernardo Bertolucci, but he got\\nthese things made and people paid to see \'em!

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Monster From Mars A.K.A. Robot Monster

Published: Oct. 27, 2009, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 3 seconds \\n

This\\nmuch maligned and conversely beloved 1953 cheapie, one of the most\\nbizarre and notorious "bad movies" ever, sports some\\nsurprisingly imaginative use of 3-D. Sold to tv only a few months\\nafter its theatrical release, it provided a surreal video jolt for\\nfifties tykes with its lurid end of the world scenario. With a cool\\nmusic score by the then-blacklisted Elmer Bernstein.

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The Masque of the Red Death

Published: Oct. 20, 2009, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds \\n

This\\ntime the Corman/Poe series moves to England for what is generally\\nconsidered the best film in the series. Tabloid news was made circa\\n1964 when costar Jane Asher\'s boyfriend visted the set: Paul\\nMcCartney.

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House on Haunted Hill

Published: Oct. 13, 2009, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 51 seconds \\n

William\\nCastle followed up "Macabre" with this trend-setting,\\ndarkly comic quintessential B-picture whose 1959 success cemented\\nVincent Price as a horror icon for the next two decades.

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House of Usher

Published: Oct. 6, 2009, 4 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds \\n

First\\nin Roger Corman\'s profitable series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations,\\nthis 1960 excursion into quality from AIP spawned an entire series\\nbased on the idea that high school kids could watch them and then do\\nbook reports without reading the originals!

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God Told Me To A.K.A. Demon

Published: Sept. 29, 2009, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds \\n

Shot\\nguerilla-style all over New York City by celebrated maverick and TFH\\ncontributor Larry Cohen, this is one crazy movie! A homicide spree\\nhits town and the perps have only one thing in common: they all say\\n"God told me to!" Apocalyptic to say the least!

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The Fall of the Roman Empire

Published: Sept. 22, 2009, 4 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 33 seconds \\n

They\\ndon\'t make \'em like this anymore: those huge sets and cast of\\nthousands aren\'t computer-generated but absolutely real, and those\\n1964-era actors are a darn sight more interesting than a lot of those\\nwe have on hand today.

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From Hell It Came

Published: Aug. 18, 2009, 7:48 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds \\n

An\\nindication of the attention to detail that distinguishes this 1957\\ntriumph of concept over execution is that the walking tree monster\\nTobonga (who terrorizes the tropical island of Griffith Park) is\\nidentified as Baranga in this trailer!

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Carnival of Souls

Published: Aug. 11, 2009, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds \\n

Kansas\\nindustrial filmmaker Herk Harvey\'s barely-distributed 1962 ghost\\nstory languished in obscurity for years, but has now taken its place\\nas one of the most influential indie productions of the sixties.

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Colossus: The Forbin Project

Published: Aug. 4, 2009, 9:27 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 9 seconds \\n

Made\\nin 1968 and shelved for nearly two years, this is one of the most\\nintelligent science fiction pictures of its decade, but it failed to\\nfind an audience. An updated remake has recently been announced.\\nCould we really be worse off with a computer running everything?

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All That Heaven Allows

Published: July 28, 2009, 4:28 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Published: July 21, 2009, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 3 seconds

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20 Million Miles to Earth

Published: July 14, 2009, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds

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13 Ghosts

Published: July 8, 2009, 4:25 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 50 seconds

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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Published: June 20, 2009, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds

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Forty Guns

Published: June 19, 2009, 3:22 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 32 seconds

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