This was the first entry in the long-running series of trailer compilations presented by Something Weird. It boasts a terrific assembly of genre favorites, trash classics, and Grade-Z junk. Many of the all-time great trailers that have appeared in countless other compilations are here, but what makes Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-O-Rama Show Vol. 1 an exemplary example of the format is the sheer number of horror rarities, regional flicks, and obscure-o weirdness on hand.
The trailers vary in length too. Some run on several minutes while others are nothing more than a brief TV spot. The genres run the gamut from Blaxploitation to Spaghetti Westerns to skin flicks to biker movies to Kung Fu to horror. At two hours, it moves along at a lightning pace and the constant variety means you’ll never be bored.
The first wave of trailers include Bare Knuckles, Great White, The Black Connection, Hells Chosen Few, Chain Gang Women, Tunnel Vision, Sugar Hill, The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena, The Wild Riders, Point of Terror, The Brute and the Beast, Crazy Mama, Tidal Wave, Circle of Iron, The Great Hollywood Rape-Slaughter (which promises an appearance by Linda Ronstadt), The 3 Dimensions of Greta, Werewolves on Wheels, Korean Connection, The Killer Breed, The Groove Tube, Pets, The Godfathers of Hong Kong, The Night of the Assassin, The House That Vanished (which rips off Last House on the Left’s “It’s Only a Movie!” campaign), The Evil, Don’t Go in the House, and Something is Out There.
Afterwards, there’s a short intermission filled with cool vintage drive-in ads. Then, we get back into the action with trailers for The Hot Box, The Born Losers, The Female Bunch, Naked Rider (which is just a content warning and shows nothing from the movie, AKA: All the Young Wives), Kill Squad, Matilda (a boxing kangaroo movie starring Elliott Gould), Digby: The Biggest Dog in the World, The Mysterious Monsters, Hell’s Angels on Wheels, The Glory Stompers, Chrome and Hot Leather, The Mutations, Flesh Gordon, Luana, The Jezebels (AKA: Switchblade Sisters), Scream Baby Scream, Gay Liberation, Squirm, Zebra Force, Savage Sisters, Johnny Firecloud, The Swiss Conspiracy, The Bull Buster, The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here!, Vampyres (“Very Unnatural Ladies”), Women for Sale, The Rape Killer, The Girl in Room 2A, The Teacher (“Her best lessons were taught… AFTER CLASS!”), Liz (an amazing trailer filled with man-on-the-street interviews of mostly outraged old women who can’t believe how much sex and nudity is in the movie, a testimonial from the producer, and absolutely zero clips from the movie itself), Eve, Superchick, Women in Cages (which oddly features the instrumental to The Cars’ “Moving in Stereo”), The Big Bird Cage, Sins of Rachel, The Cat Ate the Parakeet, Mother, Nazi Love Camp 27 (which uses the same “Special Announcement” gimmick as Liz, but features a black screen that reads, “Cut” whenever the footage gets too steamy), The Captive Female (AKA: Scream Bloody Murder), The Love-Thrill Murders, Night of the Lepus, Satan’s Cheerleaders, The Vampires Night Orgy, Simon, King of the Witches, Black Belt Jones, and finally, an ad for a double feature of Curse of the Headless Horseman and Carnival of Blood; followed by a few more drive-in ads.
In short, no trailer compilation fanatic will want to miss it.
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