ONLY THE GOOD PARTS (2020) *** ½

It’s been a while since I watched a good trailer compilation.  This one really lives up to its title as it is chockfull of T & A and blood and guts.  It also showcases some of the best trailers from not only the horror genre, but also drive-in, grindhouse, exploitation, and sleaze cinema.

Some of the trailers you’ve seen in countless other collections like I Spit on Your Grave, It’s Alive, and Raw Meat.  That’s okay though because there are still plenty of unique, odd, or just plain awesome trailers here.  I mean how many trailer compilations out there feature coming attractions for At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, The Johnsons, or the nude beauty pageant movie She Did It His Way?

I also liked that they were mostly grouped by subgenre, which helped things flow nicely from trailer to trailer.  We have action (Call Him Mr. Shatter, Angel of HEAT, Alley Cat), Women in Prison (Barbed Wire Dolls, Love Camp, 10 Violent Women), horror (Nurse Sherri, J.D.’s Revenge, The Man Who Haunted Himself), cannibal movies (Zombie Holocaust, Eaten Alive, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals), sexploitation (She Did It His Way, Rolls Royce Baby, Evil Come Evil Go), and religious horror flicks (Beware My Brethren, The Devils, Mark of the Devil 2), just to name a few.

Also, at a relatively scant 79 minutes, it moves at a brisk enough pace to prevent you from getting overstimulated, as can happen with even the best of these collections.  Even though it threatens to peter out by the end, Only the Good Parts finishes off with the iconic trailer for Torso, which ends things on a high note.  Besides, there’s a strong concentration of trailers featuring Lina Romay in the buff (and in exemplary gynecological detail, I might add).  I mean, if your compilation is called Only the Good Parts, that’s about the best part you could hope for.

A sequel followed.

The complete list of trailers include:  A spookshow ad, Call Him Mr. Shatter, Angel of HEAT, Alley Cat, Barbed Wire Dolls, Love Camp, 10 Violent Women, I Spit on Your Grave, Nurse Sherri, J.D.’s Revenge, The Man Who Haunted Himself, Spasmo, At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, The Johnsons, The Brood, It’s Alive, It Lives Again, The Child, The Nights of Terror (AKA:  Burial Ground), Hell of the Living Dead, Zombie Holocaust (AKA:  Dr. Butcher, M.D.), Eaten Alive, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, She Did It His Way, Rolls Royce Baby, Evil Come Evil Go, Beware My Brethren, The Devils, Mark of the Devil 2, Demoniac, Virgin Witch, The Naked Witch, The Crypt of Dark Secrets, The Legend of the Wolf Woman, The Grim Reaper, Raw Meat, Tower of Evil, and Torso.