NITEMARE THEATRE’S LATE NIGHT CHILL-O-RAMA HORROR SHOW VOL. 1 (1996) ***

Here’s another Something Weird horror trailer compilation that will fit the bill for any fan of old school horror and schlock on a dark and stormy night.  It might not be one of their best, but it moves at a zippy pace as the trailers come fast and furious.  For variety’s sake, there are a couple of vintage interviews with Bela Lugosi, and a behind the scenes featurette on the making of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (which prominently features the luscious Caroline Munroe in an array of revealing outfits).  

Things kick off with a great run of ‘50s favorites (including the AIP trilogy of I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, and Blood of Dracula) before segueing into ads for condensed Saturday afternoon cliffhangers (like Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine, Cyclotrode X, and The Claw Monster).  From then on, the bulk of the trailers are from the ‘70s.  We get lots of films starring Christopher Lee (I, Monster, The Castle of Fu Manchu, and The Wicker Man), Peter Cushing (And Now the Screaming Starts, The Creeping Flesh, and Horror Express), and Robert Quarry (The Return of Count Yorga, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, and The Deathmaster).  Finally, the show wraps up with a handful of more trailers from the ‘50s (Invisible Invaders, The 27th Day, and The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow).   

Some of the best trailers are for werewolf pictures like The Beast Must Die, Werewolves on Wheels and Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror.  Other highlights include ads for The Fly (in which Vincent Price stops the projector because things are getting too scary), The Last Days of Man on Earth, and UFO.  Although I wish some of the trailers had been a little bit more on the racier side (especially considering the healthy amount of previews from the ‘70s), there’s plenty of good stuff here to make this another winner from Something Weird.

The complete trailer line-up is as follows:  Blood of the Vampire, The Cyclops, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula, The Brain from Planet Arous, The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, The Fly, Giant from the Unknown, The Return of Dracula, Bela Lugosi interview, Intimate Interviews: Bela Lugosi, Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine (AKA:  Manhunt of Mystery Island), Cyclotrode X (AKA:  The Crimson Ghost), The Claw Monsters (AKA:  Panther Girl of the Kongo), D-Day on Mars (AKA:  The Purple Monster Strikes), Prehistoric Women, The Screaming Skull, And Now the Screaming Starts!, Scream Blacula Scream, The Beast Must Die, The Last Days of Man on Earth (AKA:  The Final Programme), Death Race 2000, Mansion of the Doomed, Werewolves on Wheels, The Return of Count Yorga, The Velvet Vampire, Murders in the Rue Morgue, I, Monster, Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, The Creeping Flesh, The Castle of Fu Manchu, Son of the Blob (AKA:  Beware! The Blob), Blacula, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Horror Express, The Vault of Horror, The Deathmaster, UFO, Theatre of Blood, a featurette of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Wicker Man, Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Equinox, Logan's Run, The Land That Time Forgot, Silent Night, Evil Night (AKA:  Black Christmas), Strait-Jacket, Invisible Invaders, The 27th Day, Burn, Witch, Burn!, The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow, and The Innocents.