GRINDHOUSE HORRORS (1992) ** ½

If it seems like I’m rating this grindhouse trailer compilation a little on the low side, it’s because it had a lot of overlap with some of the other trailer compilations I have seen recently, most notably, World’s Wildest Rarest Trailers.  In fact, I had to pause it about fifteen minutes in and re-read my review of that compilation just to make sure I wasn’t watching a retitled version.  That doesn’t seem to be the case, although many of the trailers that were featured in that one are present here.  There’s also a lot of trailers here that were featured in Grindhouse Trailers Classics 2, which I watched just the day before, and that REALLY added to the overall feeling of déjà vu.  

That said, there are some trailers here I’ve never seen, which makes it worthwhile.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen the trailer for Street Trash, even though I’ve watched the movie several times, so that was cool.  The same goes for the Girls of the Underworld trailer, the 1939 sexploitation flick (better known as Mad Youth) that promises to be “Sexsational”!  There’s also an ad for The Gold Guitar, an obscure Nashville musical from the ‘60s starring Bill Anderson, so there are some definite highlights here.  If you’re a fan of trailer compilations but you haven’t seen as many as I have, you’re bound to enjoy it more than I did.  It’s still not bad though.

Here’s the complete roster of titles:  Journey into the Beyond, Cult of the Damned (AKA:  Angel, Angel, Down We Go), Sweden:  Heaven and Hell, Amin:  The Rise and Fall, Savage Island, Jungle Warriors, Battle of the Amazons, Devils Three, Shogun Assassin, J.D.’s Revenge, Honky, If He Hollers Let Him Go!, Savage Sisters, Hell’s Belles, Girls of the Underworld (AKA:  Mad Youth), Run Swinger Run, The Depraved, Don’t Open the Window, Don’t Answer the Phone, The Death Dealer, Deranged, Slaughter in the South Bronx (AKA:  Tenement), Massacre at Central High, Street Trash, The Offspring (AKA:  From a Whisper to a Scream), Demon! (AKA:  God Told Me To), Dixie Dynamite, Wild Rebels, The Gold Guitar, The Doll Squad, Virgin Witch, Deep Red, Rabid, Maniac, Slumber Party Massacre, The Exterminator, The Evil, Silent Night Deadly Night, Chinese Hercules, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Fearless Fighters, Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, Goliath and the Sins of Babylon, Jaws of the Dragon, The Man from Hong Kong, Puppet on a Chain, and Race with the Devil.