TRAILERS #6: HORROR/SCI-FI EXPLOITATION (1992) ***

Trailers #6:  Horror/Sci-Fi Exploitation is another solid Something Weird trailer compilation.  While it contains many titles from previous collections, most of the repeats appear here in a slightly different form, either as part of a double feature or as a re-release trailer.  Highlights include the preview for the Captain Video serial (which advertises a color sequence), Mickey Rooney as a mad dog killer (“I now pronounce you DEAD!”) in The Last Mile, and it was cool seeing Robot Monster turn up under its alternate title, Monster from Mars.  I think my favorite trailer was Common Law Wife, in which no scenes from the movie are shown.  Instead, we get a guy walking around a cheap motel room who tells us what we'll see in the film.  He also says, “You don’t have to say, ‘I do’ to be married!”  There’s also a great preview for The Killer Shrews hosted by a “doctor” who tells us, “Report to the authorities any sighting of a giant shrew!”  

There are also plenty of fun double and triple feature ads.  We get a double bill of A Bucket of Blood and (Attack of) the Giant Leeches, the double feature of The Vampire’s Coffin and Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy features a cool, multicolored Hypno-Wheel, and the triple feature ad for The Vampire, The Return of Dracula, and The Monster That Challenged the World has an awesome tagline:  “Most Nightmares Last Six Seconds.  Can You Stand One That Lasts Six Hours?”

This had the potential of being one of the best Something Weird trailer compilations.  Too bad it makes the mistake of playing the same trailers twice, which is a shame.  It’s one thing to show the same trailer from compilation to compilation, but I have to take off points for showing repeat trailers within the same volume.  In fact, it probably would’ve gotten *** ½ had it not been for all the repeats.  

That said, I did enjoy the run of “Attack” movies (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Attack of the Puppet People, and Attack of the Crab Monsters) that occurred midway through.  There are also plenty of ads for Toho films (King Kong vs. Godzilla, Godzilla’s Revenge, and Mothra vs. Godzilla), juvenile delinquent flicks (Teen-Age Crime Wave and Curfew Breakers), and Ray Dennis Steckler (The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies and The Thrill Killers). 

In addition to all the trailers, the first few minutes of the unaired pilot of The Munsters are dropped in there for no real reason.  It’s random as hell, but it is neat seeing Joan Marshall as Herman’s wife “Phoebe” as she is much sexier than Yvonne De Carlo’s Lily Munster.  Oh, what could’ve been!  

The complete line-up is as follows, Bride of the Gorilla, Voodoo Woman, Gun Girls, Girls in the Night, The Oklahoma Woman, Cat-Women of the Moon, She Demons, Curse of a Teenage Nazi, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Alligator People, a double feature of War of the Colossal Beast and Attack of the Puppet People, The Hideous Sun Demon, Night of the Blood Beast, and double feature of The Vampire's Coffin and The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy, a double feature of The Screaming Skull and Terror From the Year 5000, Macabre, Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, Monster from Mars (AKA:  Robot Monster), The Electronic Monster, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Invaders from Mars, The Blob, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Monster on the Campus, A Bucket of Blood, Twist All Night, Little Shop of Horrors, Common Law Wife, House on Haunted Hill, The Killer Shrews, Revenge of the Creature, Black Sunday, The Tingler, The Unearthly, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, a double feature of The Screaming Skull and Terror From the Year 5000, Five, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Attack of the Puppet People, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Them!, The Killer Shrews, Tarantula, The Black Scorpion, Daughter of Horror, The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Munsters Unaired Pilot "My Fair Munster", King Kong vs. Godzilla, Godzilla's Revenge) Mothra vs. Godzilla, Terror of Mechagodzilla, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, The Thrill Killers, The Man from Planet X, The Last Mile, Teen-Age Crime Wave, Curfew Breakers The Mole People, Daughter of Horror, The Monster That Challenged the World, Terror in the Haunted House, Day the World Ended, a triple feature of The Vampire, The Return of Dracula, and The Monster That Challenged the World, Frankenstein, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Screaming Skull, War of the Colossal Beast, The Black Scorpion, The Mysterians, and The H-Man.