This was a bonus feature on the Blu-Ray for The AGFA Horror Trailer Show. Like the bonuses found on the Drive-In Delirium trailer compilation series, it is a collection of trailers cobbled together from home video previews. Many of them are for shot-on-video crap or low budget regional films I have never heard of. I know when I review these trailer compilations, I usually complain that I’ve seen a lot of the trailers on other collections. I can’t say that this time around.
That’s not to say they are all obscure. You’ll also find some of the classics of the SOV horror genre. Or at the very least, the most well-known. (The Abomination, The Ripper, and The Dead Next Door among them.)
Things start with a cool bumper for a fake TV station before the transmission is taken over by the “Demon of AGFA”, a hooded horror host, who introduces a deluge of SOV horror trailers. The full collection includes: Spiritual Challenge, Horrorscope, Blood Cult, Catacombs, A Night to Dismember, The Burning Moon, Forever Evil, Death Nurse, Enjoyment in Hell (“Go Get UR Copy!”), Mr. Ice Cream Man (which hilariously uses James Horner’s score from Aliens), Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life (which actually looks disturbing), Evil Island, The Demons in My Head, Evil Night, Blood Massacer (sic), The Long Island Cannibal Massacre, Terror at Tenkiller, and Cannibal Campout. Then, there is a brief intermission containing some cool horror-themed regional commercials. (My favorite was a very well-done Night of the Living Dead-inspired commercial for a pizza place.) The second half then kicks off with The Abomination before being followed by The Battle of the Gods, Woodchipper Massacre, Death Metal Zombies, The Ripper, Hauntedween, Science Crazed, Demons in the Land, Bloody Anniversary, Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (a Japanese remake of The Evil Dead), The Last Slumber Party, The Dead Next Door, Revenge, Things, Fungicide, Haunted (starring Press Your Luck’s Peter Tomarken!), The Night Marchers, Disembodied, Violent Shit, Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence, Things 2, Holla If I Killed You, and Holy Moly.
A common theme is that many of the trailers feature narrators who hilariously over-explain every little blessed plot detail (like A Night to Dismember). I’m sure if you’ve seen some of these trailers, there’s no point of sitting down and watching the actual movie (although you can say the same thing for a lot of trailers, really). The most entertaining trailers are the ones for the Nigerian horror movies. I don’t know where AGFA found them, but they are some absolute gems.
Hopefully, this will be the start of a new tradition for the folks at AGFA. I’d really love it if they came out with new trailer collections on a yearly basis. I’d definitely pick up the next compilation if and when they release it.
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