You know World’s Wildest Rarest Trailers is going to be a great trailer compilation right out of the gate with the first trailer, Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk (AKA: Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle). Any time you get a trailer that’s a thousand times better than the actual movie, it’s a win in my book. This trailer is great, mostly because it keeps showing the names of the stars, Laura Gemser and Annie Belle while repeating the title over and over again as lots of footage of the two cavorting around nude plays out.
There’s a good mix of genres represented here, which should satisfy exploitation and horror fans alike. We get trailers for out-and-out classics such as I Drink Your Blood (on a double feature with I Eat Your Skin), Ilsa Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, Let Me Die a Woman, House by the Cemetery, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (under the title The Phantom of Terror), Flesh Feast, Re-Animator, Deranged, Tenement (which appears under TWO titles: Game of Survival and Slaughter in the South Bronx!), and Massacre at Central High. We also get a solid amount of drive-in fare like Girl in Room 2A, Journey into the Beyond, Cult of the Damned (AKA: Angel, Angel, Down We Go), Amin: The Rise and Fall, and Don’t Open the Window (AKA: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie). ‘80s horror is represented by the likes of Girls School Screamers (“The finishing school that finishes you off!”), The Oracle, Trick or Treat, Invasion of the Flesh Hunters (AKA: Cannibal Apocalypse), and Don’t Answer the Phone. Fire in the Flesh, Without a Stitch, Women for Sale, Succubare, The Rape Killer (AKA: Death Kiss), Sweden: Heaven and Hell, and The Depraved (AKA: Exposed) hallmark the sexploitation offerings. Action fans should enjoy trailers for Blood, Sweat and Fear (“Before he’s through, a lot of pure white snow is going to be bright blood red!”), The One Armed Executioner, Riot on 42nd St. (which clocks in at a staggering seven minutes), Jungle Warriors, Battle of the Amazons, and The Death Dealer.
A couple of legendary exploitation directors are also given a mini spotlight. Ron Ormond’s Please Don’t Touch Me and The Exotic Ones (which looks amazing) are among the two highlights of the collection. Al Adamson’s films Angels’ Wild Women, Satan’s Sadists (which ghoulishly exploits the Sharon Tate murder), and Brain of Blood are also featured. Fans of Linda Blair will dig seeing trailers for Savage Streets and Savage Island too. There’s an assortment of stinkers like Vampire People (AKA: The Blood Drinkers), Blood Demon (AKA: The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism), Brides of Blood, and In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro in the bunch, along with a smattering of Kung Fu flicks (The Super Weapon, Dragon’s Inferno) and Blaxploitation (Super Spook, Ghetto Freaks).
World’s Wildest Rarest Trailers packs a lot of fun into two hours. While there are enough oddities here to justify the “Rarest” moniker, it does have an abundance of trailers you (or at least me, anyway) have seen before. That’s not a knock against it. When you’ve seen as many trailer comps as I have, it gets harder and harder to make new discoveries. That said, this is a thoroughly enjoyable collection that even managed to satisfy this jaded exploitation fan.
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