THE BATMAN (2022) *** ½

Non-comic book movie fans are probably asking themselves why we need yet another big-screen iteration of the Caped Crusader.  If you notice, no one ever asks why we need another Shakespeare adaptation.  I’m not saying Bob Kane is better than the Bard, but like the great Shakespearian characters, Batman is steeped in tragedy, violence, and theatrics.  As with Shakespeare’s greatest works, Batman is a tale worth telling again and again, especially if you can find a new and interesting way to adapt and interpret it.  

Matt (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) Reeves’ film is a sort of a throwback to the thrillers of ‘90s (which makes me feel really old to say), especially the ones directed by David Fincher.  There are moments here that echo both Seven and The Game, and the new Riddler, while not exactly plucked out of Fincher’s Zodiac, was obviously inspired by the real-life Zodiac Killer in many ways.  Some sequences feel like they came out of a Saw movie as the Riddler’s traps have a very Jigsaw-like feel to them.  Reeves is able to cherry-pick these inspirations and graft them into a tapestry that, although familiar, feel fresh when applied to the Batman mythos.  (The prominent use of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” adds to the overall ‘90s vibe.)

Sure, we have seen some of these elements in other films.  What we haven’t seen is this kind of Batman.  We saw how Batman trained like a Ninja, made his suit, and got all his gadgets in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins.  Robert Pattinson’s Batman is interesting in that he is in his second year of vigilante justice.  While he excels at some things (namely beating the crap out of street-level thugs), he needs a lot of work in other areas.  In some scenes, when he busts out a gadget, you get the sense he is field testing it for the first time.  When he narrowly escapes capture and/or death, he has a look about him that says, “Thank God, that worked” rather than, “It’s just another day at the office”.

In fact, you could probably watch this immediately after Batman Begins (or Batman ’89 for that matter) and it would feel like a true sequel to either branch of the franchise.  

I think this might be the best and most satisfying character arc Batman has ever had in a motion picture.  In the beginning of the film, he uses fear as his primary tool.  (“They think I’m in the shadows.  They’re wrong.  I AM the shadows!”)  Eventually, he learns that fear and vengeance are not enough to save the city.  I won’t spoil his, “A-ha!” moment when he discovers the third ingredient needed to become a true hero, but I will say it’s one of the best moments in any of the Batman movies.  

I also loved that the only one who really trusts what Batman is doing is Detective Gordon.  The Bat Signal is brand new.  Whenever there’s a murder, Batman is called to investigate the crime scene, much to the chagrin of the other cops.  The way they look at him in disgust as he pores over the evidence is great.  Also great:  The crime scene photographer who knows what Batman is capable of, so he follows two steps behind him to take pictures of whatever Batman thought important at the time.  The cops distrust him so much that when Batman makes one slip-up, they immediately declare open season on him.  His escape from the police station is one of the greatest action beats in all the Batmans.  

Another all-timer moment:  His introduction.  The “THUD… THUD… THUD…” of his boots in the shadows gave off real Robocop vibes and his beatdown of a street punk was some of the most brutal shit we’ve seen Batman ever do.  Whatever reservations I had about Robert Pattinson in the Batsuit immediately disappeared.  This dude IS Batman and I hope he’s the Batman for a very long time.  

And, in a novel twist that further helps separate The Batman from the other screen versions of the character, he’s Batman for like 80% of the running time.  While he’s close-but-not-quite-there to being the Batman we all know and love, he hasn’t a clue on how to be Bruce Wayne, and I kind of loved that.  When he does show his face in public, he’s looked at as almost a twentysomething emo Howard Hughes, which is probably the last guy you’d expect to be the Batman.  

Another cool thing:  The villains arrive pretty much fully formed.  Like the character of Batman, there are no origin stories to the bad guys.  This might be the most villain-heavy film out of all the Batman flicks (if you count the cameo at the end) and each actor puts their own stamp on the role.  Colin Farrell is unrecognizable as The Penguin.  He chews the scenery with gusto and is as much fun to watch here as he was playing Bullseye in Daredevil.  Zoe Kravitz also puts her own unique stamp on Catwoman.  From her slinky catlike Kung Fu moves, to the way she nonchalantly drinks milk, she is one of the best Catwomen of all time (but we already knew that when she played the role in The LEGO Batman Movie).  

As for the main villain, Paul Dano is not your father’s Riddler.  There is nothing remotely Jim Carrey or Frank Gorshin about this guy.  He’s a real sicko who thinks he’s “changing” things.  In fact, Batman is so misunderstood by Gotham City at large in the film that Riddler actually thinks Batman is going to be the only one who understands him, much to Batman’s horror.  

Oh, and not only does this flick contain what has to be the best Batmobile since the original car from the ‘60s TV show, it also has the best superhero theme (courtesy of Michael Giacchino) theme since Danny Elfman’s music for the Michael Keaton Batman movies.

Now, much has been made about the film’s three-hour running time.  I’m afraid I have to chime in with the chorus and say, yes, it is too long.  I can’t fault Reeves.  He got the keys to the kingdom and didn’t want to relinquish them until he filled the movie to the brim with everything one could pack into a Batman flick.  The third act is where the bulk of the problem lie.  There’s probably one too many subplots (Catwoman’s daddy issues), an action sequence that feels like a leftover from the Nolan era (flooding Gotham), and a sequence where the Riddler’s henchmen are revealed to be nothing more than triggered incel gunmen.  Did we really need an active shooter sequence in a Batman movie?  Especially when you consider the same kind of real-life nut already opened fire in a theater showing The Dark Knight all those years ago?  It seemed like a case of poor judgement rather than poor taste to me, but it did allow Batman to do yet another epic beatdown, so there’s that.  At least it culminates in a truly memorable moment where Batman saves the day.  This moment alone was probably worth all the little hiccups along the way.  

Who knows with these things?  These little third act issues might go away on repeated viewings.  (My problems with the third act of The Dark Knight still stand every time I watch it, so it could go either way.)  I already can’t wait to watch it again, so there’s that.  I don’t think they’ve made a bad Batman movie yet (yes, I like Batman and Robin), and this one is one of the best.  

RANKING THE BATMEN:

1. The LEGO Batman Movie

2. Batman

3. Batman Begins

4. Batman v. Superman:  Dawn of Justice

5. The Dark Knight

6. The Batman

7. Batman Returns

8. The Dark Knight Rises

9. Justice League

10. Batman and Robin

11. Batman Forever

12. Batman:  The 1943 Serial

13. Batman:  The 1949 Serial

14. Zack Snyder’s Justice League

15. Suicide Squad

16. Batman:  The Movie

17. Batman:  Mask of the Phantasm

SINISTER CINEMA CLASSIC HORROR TRAILERS VOLUME 6 (199?) ***

Although it is a solid horror trailer compilation, Sinister Cinema Classic Horror Trailers Volume 6 feels like a little bit of a letdown after the awesome Volume 5.  A lot of that has to do with the abundance of déjà vu as many trailers from other volumes in the series pop up yet again (A Bucket of Blood, Circus of Horrors, and The Devil’s Hand, just to name a few).  Even though many of the trailers are overly familiar, the more obscure ones don’t have the same jaw-dropping spark as the others found throughout the series.  That said, it still makes for breezy, undemanding fun for horror trailer fans like me.  

This installment in the series begins with trailers for Door-to-Door Maniac (starring Johnny Cash and Ron Howard), The Tower of London (starring Vincent Price), The Curse of the Living Corpse (which has a “Fright Release” gimmick), and Horror Castle (which spells Christopher Lee’s name wrong).  Highlights include Hillbillys in a Haunted House (boasting an appearance by the “new” singing star, Merle Haggard), Munster, Go Home (introduced by Herman Munster himself), Night of the Bloody Horror (which refuses to show any scenes from the movie), and Audrey Rose (which basically just shows the cover of the novel it's based on).  There’s also the usual smattering of spook show ads and drive-in snipes, although many of them have already appeared in other volumes throughout the series.

Things end with a long run of William Castle trailers.  While many of these have popped up elsewhere, the ones that he personally introduces are always fun to watch (especially the one for Homicidal where he interviews theater patrons after they’ve just seen the shocking ending).  As a bonus, the final trailers are merely snippets promoting the various gimmicks Castle used in his films like “The Ghost Viewer” (13 Ghosts), “Ermergo” (House on Haunted Hill), and a life insurance policy from Lloyd’s of London (Macabre). 

Sure, there are some overly familiar trailers here.  Then again, I’m only saying that because I watched the entire Sinister Cinema Classic Horror Trailer collection over the course of two weeks.  If you happen to pop this in without seeing the others in the series (or if you don’t watch nearly as many trailer compilations as I do), you’re sure to enjoy it.  

Here's the complete listing of trailers:  Door-to-Door Maniac (AKA:  Five Minutes to Live), The Tower of London, The Curse of the Living Corpse, Horror Castle, Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, The She Beast, Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Hillbillys in a Haunted House, Munster, Go Home, Horror House, The Wizard of Gore, Tales from the Crypt, The Thing with Two Heads, The Asphyx, Madhouse, The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, Arnold, Screams of a Winter Night, Beyond the Door, Shock Waves, Audrey Rose, The House Where Death Lives, The Evil, Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror, The She-Creature, I Bury the Living, A Bucket of Blood, Horrors of the Black Museum, How to Make a Monster, The Headless Ghost, Circus of Horrors, The Hypnotic Eye, The Little Shop of Horrors, Beast from Haunted Cave, The Devil’s Hand, The Devil’s Partner, The Screaming Skull, From Hell It Came, Blood of Dracula, Giant from the Unknown, The Return of Dracula, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, Curse of the Undead, Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow, Mr. Sardonicus, Homicidal, Zotz!, The Tingler, 13 Frightened Girls, 13 Ghosts, Strait-Jacket, House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, House on Haunted Hill, and Macabre.  

SINISTER CINEMA CLASSIC HORROR TRAILERS VOLUME 5 (199?) *** ½

It’s rare that the fifth installment of a franchise is the best, but Sinister Cinema Classic Horror Trailers Volume 5 is that rare beast.  It far surpasses its predecessors when it comes to cool, creepy, and cult trailers.  I think the secret to this one’s success is the fact that after four volumes, the previous entries had already pretty much exhausted a wealth of famous and/or familiar trailers.  That leaves us with a lot of obscure titles, lesser-quality low budget flicks, and trailers that almost never turn up on these compilations.  

Highlights include trailers for Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses (which uses the stock music from the old Universal horror flicks), the WTF Mexican kids’ movie Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters, the alliterative ad for The Devil’s Wedding Night (“Diabolic demons delirious with desire!”), Allan Sherman introducing the trailer for My Son, the Vampire, and a young Linnea Quigley being terrorized by the Psycho from Texas.  There’s also plenty of oddball shit along the way, like The Gorilla Gang (narrated by “Edgar Wallace”), The Spirit is Willing (a ghost comedy starring Sid Caesar and produced by William Castle), and Monstroid, (which the narrator keeps referring to as “Monster”).  Even though some films from other collections appear again, they almost always use different trailers (like The Island of Dr. Moreau) and/or alternate titles (like Welcome to Arrow Beach), which is great for completists.   

Some of the most memorable previews revolve around gimmicks.  The trailer for The Mask on hosted by an expert on masks (who has “the most comprehensive collection in the world”) hawking the “Miracle Movie Mask”.  (It’s just a fancy 3-D viewer.)  In Monsters Crash the Pajama Party, people in costumes “jump out of the screen and into the audience”.  And Wicked Wicked uses “Duovision”, which is just split screen.

The intermission ads, concession stand commercials, and drive-in snipes are even more awesome this time around.  Some of the best are the commercial for Eskimo Pies, an ad for a “Movie Discount Card” for teenagers to use at drive-ins, a concession stand promo featuring Dixieland Jazz musicians, and a great ‘70s Coke intermission ad called “Looking for a Good Time”.  My favorite though is an intermission interstitial for Sprite that copies the starfield special effects from 2001.  Like that flick, Sinister Cinema Classic Horror Trailers Volume 5 is out of this world!

The full line-up is as follows:  Pharaoh’s Curse, The Thing That Couldn’t Die, The Bat, Blood and Roses, Circus of Horrors, Castle of Blood, The Curse of the Living Corpse, The Murder Clinic, Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters, A Taste of Blood, The Death Curse of Tartu, a double feature of It! and The Frozen Dead, Twisted Nerve, Venus in Furs, Crescendo, Night of Dark Shadows, Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things, The Devil’s Wedding Night, Cat O’Nine Tails, From Beyond the Grave, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Welcome to Arrow Beach, House of Whipcord, The Gorilla Gang, Kiss of the Tarantula, a double feature of Cauldron of Blood and Crucible of Horror, The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, The Awful Dr. Orloff, The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, My Son, the Vampire, The Mask, Black Sabbath, The Horror of Blackwood Castle, Monsters Crash the Pajama Party, Lady in a Cage, Hysteria, the “Orgy of the Living Dead” triple feature of Revenge of the Living Dead, Curse of the Living Dead, and Fangs of the Living Dead, Mark of the Witch, Simon, King of the Witches, Raw Meat, Blood Orgy of the She-Devils, Wicked Wicked, The Spirit is Willing, The Savage is Loose, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Psycho from Texas, Horror Hotel (AKA:  Eaten Alive), Monstroid, and Bluebeard.  

SINISTER CINEMA CLASSIC HORROR TRAILERS VOLUME 4 (199?) ***

Sinister Cinema trailer collection numero four-o kicks off with previews for such ‘50s shockers as Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (a film that seems to be under the impression that Dr. Jekyll was a vampire?!?) and A Bucket of Blood, before setting its sights on Mexican horrors like Face of the Screaming Werewolf and Black Pit of Dr. M.  We also get trailers featuring Barbara Steele (The Ghost and Nightmare Castle), rare and/or cheap looking movies (The Devil’s Bedroom, Alabama’s Ghost, and Curse of the Voodoo), trailers for films that have appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Bloodlust!, Tormented, and Ring of Terror), and at least one horror flick starring an extremely unlikely leading man (Pat Boone in The Horror of It All).  The collection eventually concludes with a trio of trailers for “respectable” ‘70s horrors like The Stepford Wives, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Amityville Horror.  

All in all, Volume 4 is another typically entertaining trailer compilation from Sinister Cinema.  It features a good mix of black and white (Night Tide, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, and Dead Eyes of London) and color (The Gruesome Twosome, Creature with the Blue Hand, and Night of the Blood Monster) films.  Since I’ve been watching so many compilations lately, there were more than a few trailers that I have seen in other collections.  Despite that, there are just enough distinct trailers here to make it recommended.  For example, Alfred Hitchcock pops up in so many compilations in the trailers for The Birds and Psycho, two of the most famous trailers of all time.  Because of that, it was nice seeing him introducing the trailer for the lesser-appreciated Family Plot in this collection.  

As per usual, this volume is supplemented with lots of great old-timey commercials (for Dr. Pepper), coming attraction interstitials, and concession stand ads.  (My favorite was the one for candy bars that proclaims they are “Delicious and Nutritious!”)  I also found a couple of bonkers looking movies to add to my watchlist like Crash! and Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (which has the great tagline, “It will turn your blood to ICE… for the Devil’s cocktail!”).  If it can introduce me to WTF movies I’ve never heard of, then that means Sinister Cinema Classic Horror Trailers Volume 4 has done its job.   

The full line-up includes:  Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, A Bucket of Blood, Face of the Screaming Werewolf, Black Pit of Dr. M, Night Tide, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Dead Eyes of London, The Ghost, The Devil’s Bedroom, The Horror of It All, The Black Cat, Nightmare Castle, Something Weird, Targets, The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman, Alabama’s Ghost, Night of a Thousand Cats, The Flesh and Blood Show, Crash!, The House on Skull Mountain, Family Plot, The Worm Eaters, The Medusa Touch, Silent Scream, Bloodlust!, The Devil’s Hand, The Dead One, Tormented, The Shadow of the Cat, Dr. Cadman’s Secret (AKA:  The Black Sleep), Ring of Terror, The Mad Executioners, The Black Torment, Curse of the Voodoo, A Study in Terror, The Vulture, She Was a Hippy Vampire (AKA:  The Wild World of Batwoman), The Gruesome Twosome, Creature with the Blue Hand, Night of the Blood Monster (AKA:  The Bloody Judge), Disciples of Death, Mark of the Devil Part 2, Don’t Open the Window, Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary, The Stepford Wives, Shadow of the Hawk, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Amityville Horror.   

SINISTER CINEMA CLASSIC HORROR TRAILERS VOLUME 3 (199?) ***

Sinister Cinema is back with their third collection of classic horror trailer goodness.  Overall, it’s a fun mix of genres, decades, and stars.  (Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee all appear.)  It also clocks in at under ninety minutes and moves along at a relatively brisk pace.  The occasional appearance of drive-in snipes, concession stand ads, and spook show trailers also help to perk things up along the way.   

William Castle’s filmography is the focus of the first batch of trailers (House on Haunted Hill, Macabre, and I Saw What You Did).  Castle himself is even prominently featured in the previews for 13 Ghosts and The Night Walker.  This stretch culminates in the nightmarish, atmospheric, and effective trailer for the Castle-produced Rosemary’s Baby.

Next up is a string of trailers for films from Hemisphere Pictures (Vampire People, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, and Brides of Blood).  We also get a lot of ads for double features, such as I Drink Your Blood and I Eat Your Skin, The Fog and Phantasm, The Velvet Vampire and Scream of the Demon Lover, and even a triple feature of The Vampire, The Return of Dracula, and The Monster That Challenged the World.  In addition, there’s a run of Hammer trailers (House of Fright, The Terror of the Tongs, and The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb) as well as a trio of German Edgar Wallace adaptations (The Phantom of Soho, The Monster of London City, and The Devil’s Daffodil).

Other highlights include:  Veronica Lake slumming in Flesh Feast (“What’s the matter?  Don’t you like my little maggots?”), The Eyes of Hell (which is nothing more than a spinning hypno-wheel accompanied by the voice of an obnoxious narrator), the trailer for Chamber of Horrors showcasing “The Fear Flasher” and “The Horror Horn” gimmicks, and the preview for Voodoo Heartbeat, which is unfortunately considered a lost film.  It all concludes with the hilarious trailer for Nightwing (that compares the movie to Close Encounters of the Third Kind!?!), which is about as good as a closer as they come.  

In case you’re wondering, the complete line-up is as follows:  House on Haunted Hill, Macabre, 13 Ghosts, The Night Walker, I Saw What You Did, Let’s Kill Uncle, Rosemary’s Baby, the double feature of I Drink Your Blood and I Eat Your Skin, Vampire People (AKA:  The Blood Drinkers), Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Brides of Blood, Brain of Blood, Blood Demon, The Phantom of Terror (AKA:  The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), Flesh Feast, The Oracle, Trick or Treat, The Tempter (AKA:  The Antichrist), a double feature of The Fog and Phantasm (two trailers all told), Dawn of the Dead, The Velvet Vampire and Scream of the Demon Lover, Eyeball, Seizure, Curucu:  Beast of the Amazon, The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, Horrors of Spider Island, a triple feature of The Vampire, The Return of Dracula, and The Monster That Challenged the World, House of Fright (AKA:  The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll), The Terror of the Tongs, The Eyes of Hell, The Devil’s Daffodil, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, The Phantom of Soho, The Monster of London City, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Chamber of Horrors, The Sorcerers, The Naked Witch, Beast of the Yellow Night, Voodoo Heartbeat, The Gore Gore Girls, The Vampires Night Orgy, Devil Times Five, The Omen, Meat Cleaver Massacre, Piranha, and Nightwing.

SINISTER CINEMA CLASSIC HORROR TRAILERS VOLUME 2 (199?) ***

Sinister Cinema returns with another solid trailer collection chockfull of old school horror.  Things kick off with a bunch of ‘50s horror trailers (The Zombies of Mora-Tau, Voodoo Woman, and The Bride and the Beast) before delving into the ‘70s (Don’t Look Now, The Exorcist, and The Devil’s Rain) and ‘80s (The Howling, Friday the 13th Part 2, and Ghost Story).  Boris Karloff is well-represented as there are trailers for Corridors of Blood, The Haunted Strangler, and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini.  Fans of the lovely Hazel Court will enjoy seeing her pop up in the ads for Ghost Ship, Doctor Blood’s Coffin, and The Masque of the Red Death.  There’s even a trio of trailers for films from Grade-Z schlockmeister Jerry Warren too (Terror of the Bloodhunters, Creature of the Walking Dead, and Curse of the Stone Hand).

Some of the best trailers are for flicks that feature great promotional gimmicks.  Both The Screaming Skull and Castle of Evil have a fun gimmick where the producers offer free burial services if you die of fright while watching them.  For The Embalmer, audience members must sign a "Certificate of Assurance” to prove they are of sound mind before entering the theater.  Something tells me the producers never had to make a claim on either policy.  At any rate, the gimmick alone is pretty amusing.  (I wonder if anyone out there still has their Certificate of Assurance from The Embalmer.)  

I especially loved the ads in which the narrator insists there’s something wrong with you if the movie doesn’t scare you.  For They Came from Within, he says, “If this picture doesn’t make you scream and squirm, you better see a psychiatrist… QUICK!”  In the ad for Phantasm, he insists, “If this one doesn’t scare you… You’re already dead!”  There are also plenty of drive-in snipes, intermission ads, and countdown animations sprinkled throughout, which helps to make this one another winner from Sinister Cinema.  

The complete line-up includes:  The Zombies of Mora-Tau, Voodoo Woman, The Bride and the Beast, The Screaming Skull, Terror-Creatures from the Grave, She Freak, The Undertaker and His Pals, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, The Embalmer, a double feature of Night of the Witches and Dr. Frankenstein on Campus, Castle of Evil, Night of the Living Dead, Spirits of the Dead, Kiss or Kill (AKA:  The Blood of Fu Manchu), The Thirsty Dead, Nightmare in Wax, Ben, Don’t Look Now, Tales That Witness Madness, The Exorcist, The Devil’s Rain, Burnt Offerings (two trailers), Nosferatu the Vampyre (which features a disclaimer stating there are English subtitles), The Howling, Friday the 13th Part 2, Ghost Story, Creepshow, Ghost Ship, Gorilla at Large, Curse of the Demon, Corridors of Blood, The Haunted Strangler, Doctor Blood’s Coffin, The Haunting, The Masque of the Red Death, Terror of the Bloodhunters, Creature of the Walking Dead, Curse of the Stone Hand, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs, The Bloody Pit of Horror, Blood Bath, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, The Devil Doll, Mad Monster Party, The Legend of Hell House, Willard, They Came from Within (AKA:  Shivers), Squirm, The Fog, Friday the 13th, Love at First Bite, The Evil, Phantasm, and Up from the Depths.

TRAILER-A-RAMA VOLUME 3: 78 MINUTES OF SLEAZE! (2015) ***

The third collection of sleazy movie trailers in the Trailer-A-Rama franchise just might be the best one yet.  Once again, the shortened running time helps make for breezy entertainment for trailer compilation fans.  If there is one minor quibble to be had, it’s that there’s a couple of trailers here that were already seen in the first installment in the series (Hitcher in the Dark and SS Experiment Love Camp).  There’s also at least one newer movie in the mix (Run!  Bitch!  Run!).  However, since it’s done in the old grindhouse trailer style, it looks right at home.  

This collection really brings on the sleaze, which is much appreciated.  The highlights this time are the foreign language trailers for German sex comedies such as Carnal Campus, 14 and Under, and Love in 3-D.  There’s also a heavy concentration on the Schoolgirl Report series and its many imitators.  In fact, there are so many Schoolgirl Report trailers that it made me hopeful we’ll see a full trailer compilation for the series somewhere down the road.  Speaking of foreign language trailers, there’s also a trailer for a badass looking Japanese action flick that I have no idea what it’s called because the entire thing was in Japanese.  

Non-German sexploitation is represented by the likes of Love Camp, Schoolgirls in Chains, and The True Story of the Nun of Monza.  If you came to the party looking for horror trailers, don’t worry.  There are still plenty of those too (like Doctor Death, Love Me Deadly, and Nude for Satan).  There’s even a smattering of action trailers in there as well to appease action fans (like Choke Canyon, Power Play, and The Last Grenade).  

This seems to be the final installment in the Trailer-A-Rama series.  That’s a shame too.  Even though it got off to a rocky start with the uneven first entry, the franchise really seemed to find its footing with Volume 3.  Hopefully for trailer compilation enthusiasts, there’s another chapter in the series lurking somewhere on the horizon.  

The entire trailer listing is as follows:  The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, Carnal Campus (AKA:  Schoolgirl Report Vol. 12:  If Mom Only Knew), Choke Canyon, Love Camp, Doctor Death, Follow Me, 14 and Under, Goodbye Gemini, Hitcher in the Dark, Love in 3-D, Love Me Deadly, Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly, Nude for Satan, Payday, Power Play, some Japanese action flick, Run!  Bitch!  Run!, Say Hello to Yesterday, Schoolgirls in Chains, Schuler Report, Schoolgirl Report Part 2:  What Keeps Parents Awake at Night, Schoolgirl Report 8:  What Parents Must Never Know, St. Pauli Report, Stunt Rock, The Chilling, The Dark Ride, The Internecine Project, The Last Grenade, The Redeemer… Son of Satan, and The True Story of the Nun of Monza.