BRIDE OF VHS DELIRIUM (2019) ***

 

The second installment in the Drive-In Delirium sister series, VHS Delirium offers ninety more minutes of (mostly ‘80s) home video previews.  They are presented here in loving standard definition.  Unlike the Drive-In Delirium series, no attempt has been made to clean these bad boys up.  They look like they were ripped directly from a shoddy VCR, the way God intended. 

There are many more full-length trailers this time out, which is a plus.  They include:  The Beyond, Cannibal Apocalypse, Creepers, The Dark, Epitaph, The Evictors, The House on Sorority Row, I Spit on Your Grave, LA Crackdown, Madman, The Mutilator, Night of the Zombies, Rape Squad, Savage Man… Savage Beast (complete with a warning:  “This Film  Contains Scenes That May Offend”), The Slayer, Splatter University, Squirm, Trapped, Dario Argento’s World of Horror, Bloody New Year, Blood Theatre, Silent Night Deadly Night (“The Movie They Tried to Ban!”), Silent Night Deadly Night 2, The Initiation, Spookies, The Return of Count Yorga, Tenebrae, Demons 2, Reborn, Sole Survivor, Android, The Lost Empire, Prisoners of the Lost Universe, Battle for the Lost Planet, Brother from Another Planet, Hamburger:  The Motion Picture, Pinball Summer, Stitches, Hot Dog… The Movie, Waitress!, Stuck on You!, The First Turn-On, Feelin’ Up, The Princess and The Call Girl, Blackout, The Guardian, Family and Honor (AKA:  Don’t Mess with My Sister!), The Professor, Golden Needles, Diva, Ms. .45 (under the title Rape Squad), Pray for Death, Rage of Honor, The Retaliator, Feel the Heat, Survival Game, Commando Squad, Double Revenge, Rage to Kill, and Snake Eater.  The compilation then wraps up with a promo for an Australian video company called Palace Films that includes clips from The Gate and The Wraith, among many others.

I’ve seen many of these trailers before (some were even in other Drive-In Delirium collections), but the grainy picture quality and full frame presentation definitely adds to the overall effect of recreating the glory days of VHS.  However, there plenty of movies here I haven’t heard of and probably would track down just on the basis of the trailers alone.  Because of that, Bride of VHS Delirium is yet another worthy addition to my ever-growing movie trailer compilation collection.