DUSK TO DAWN DRIVE-IN TRASH-O-RAMA SHOW VOL. 3 (1996) *** ½

Something Weird’s nearly two-hour collection of grindhouse and exploitation trailers is a must for genre buffs.  95% of the trailers included are full-length, but I did enjoy the string of thirty-second ads and/or TV spots that were wedged in there too.  It features a good blend of subgenres, some great-looking rarities, and a few undeniable classics.

Among them:  Horror High, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, The Blood Spattered Bride, Don’t Look in the Basement (which rips off the Last House on Left advertising campaign with its famous tagline, “To Avoid Fainting Keep Repeating, It’s Only a Movie!”), The Dorm That Dripped Blood, The Van, Hot Summer Week!, Black Eye, Class of ‘74, The Teasers, Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, Madhouse, Creatures the World Forgot, Thumb Tripping, Satan’s Cheerleaders, The Female Butcher, Goodbye Emmanuelle, Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon, Deadly China Doll, Caged Heat, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, Pussycat Pussycat I Love You, The Yum Yum Girls, Commuter Husbands, Carry on Emmanuelle, Angel Angel Down We Go, Bad Georgia Road, High Wild and Free, Ruby (with its great tagline:  “Christened in blood... raised in sin... she’s sweet sixteen... let the party begin!”), The Legend of the Wolf Woman, Cheerleaders’ Beach Party, Superchick, The Mini-Skirt Mob, Deranged, Summerlust, Blood of the Dragon, The Fountain of Love, The Loners, Shame of the Jungle, Trouble Man, The Savage Seven, Dirty O’Neil the Love Life of a Cop, Angel Unchained, Maid in Sweden, The Swinging Barmaids, Tomcats (“They’re up your skirt before you can flirt!”), The Hard Ride, Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women, Seven Blows of the Dragon, A Long Ride from Hell, They’re Coming to Get You (AKA:  All the Colors of the Dark), The Three Fantastic Supermen, Sadismo (a crazy looking Mondo movie about sadism around the world, Bogard (AKA:  Black Fist), Black Samson, Black Shampoo, Dr. Black Mr. Hyde (“Don’t give him no sass or he’ll kick your ass!”), Destroy All Monsters, Night of the Lepus, Frogs (“Today the pond!  Tomorrow the world!”), The Last Porno Flick, Scream Blacula Scream, and City on Fire. 

Overall, there are plenty of terrific trailers here.  Caged Heat, Ruby, and Tomcats were among my faves.  Having a heavy concentration on cheerleader movies, biker flicks, and Blaxploitation actioners didn’t hurt either.  At 110 minutes, it’s a little on the long side and kind of stalls out near the home stretch, but of all the trailer compilations I’ve watched recently, this one is my favorite.