Thursday, October 5, 2017

VINEGAR SYNDROME SPRING 2017 CATALOGUE OF FILM (2017) ***


In a short span of time, Vinegar Syndrome has become one of the best home entertainment divisions around.  Their primary focus is on vintage smut, but they also cater to fans of ‘70s exploitation, ‘80s horror, and ‘90s VHS gems.  This three-disc DVD collection of trailers acts as a visual catalogue of all the films in their library.  Remember the Something Weird Sampler?  Well, it’s kind of like that, except it’s well over eight hours long.  Sitting through the entire thing is a daunting task, especially when two of the three discs are XXX rated.  If you break the discs up into one-hour blocks, it goes down a lot smoother.   

The only complaint is that many of the trailers for the films featured could not be located.  In the interest of posterity, newly-made trailers have been edited by Vinegar Syndrome and placed in their stead.  These (mostly brief) trailers don’t pack nearly the wallop as the original “vintage” trailers, but since they are only acting as a placeholder, they aren’t that much of a distraction. 

Because of its catalogue nature, it doesn’t flow as well as something like Trailer Trauma or the 42nd Street Forever series.  Many trailers are entertaining on their own merits (like Prisoner of Paradise, Mai Lin vs. Serena, Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls, Taboo 2, and Night of the Spanish Fly), but a lot of them are just kind of cobbled together.  By the time you get to the third disc, some of the trailers start to repeat themselves because of their availability on blu-ray.  Still, just having all these trailers in one spot is pretty cool.  I’ve already jotted down some titles I should probably get my hands on, and in that respect, the disc(s) accomplished its goal.

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