First off, allow me to again apologize for being late with my weekly trailer post. I had some asthma issues that basically left me fairly useless on both Friday and Saturday. Still, better late than never. In this latest edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Trailers, we acknowledge some films that were NOT nominated for Golden Globes.
1) The Flesh Eaters (1964)
I just recently got this one on DVD but I haven’t watched it yet. Of course, I love any trailer that starts out with a countdown.
2) Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)
The star of the film (which apparently co-stars the Watusi Dancing Girls), John Hall, was briefly a star back in the 1930s. This was his attempt at a comeback film and he ended up committing suicide after it was released.
3) Blast-Off Girls (1967)
This film was directed by the infamous Herschell Gordon Lewis. I want to be a blast-off girl!
4) Monsters Crash The Pajama Party (1969)
I don’t own this one on DVD, mostly because I’m kinda scared that if I watch it, a monster will pop out of the TV screen and try to drag me off to somewhere.
5) The Fat Black Pussycat (1963)
Awwww, cute little kitty!
6) Mortuary (1983)
Agck! This trailer is actually scary.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Are you sure none of these won a Golden Globe?
Tempting to comment on “The Beach Girls and the Monster” (”Music by Frank Sinatra, Jr.!”), but that is sad about Jon Hall. However, his bio indicates that he killed himself much later, in 1979, due to serious health problems. It also quotes him as saying that he never liked acting, and that he found it to be a bore. So I don’t feel disrespectful. (I have a code of ridicule ethics, so sometimes I have to do a bit of research.) “Beach party lovers making Hey-Hey! in the moonlight, while the monster waits and watches!” So the monster is not only a killer, but apparently, he “likes to watch”. 🙂
I’ve read that with movies such as “Monsters Crash the Pajama Party”, during the screening, theater employees or other actors in costumes, matching those in the movies would engage the audience, sometimes physically. So if you had attended an original theater screening of this film, you might have actually been dragged off.
Another pre-“Rocky Horror” gimmick I have heard of is that during a climactic moment during screenings of “The Tingler”, a skeleton would slide down a cable over the heads of the audience.
I’m not old enough to have experienced such viewing enhancements, but it seems like good old cheesy fun. I guess contemporary audiences would not appreciate the charm of such antics. But I’m sorry I missed out on them.
Nice batch of off-the-wall trailers this week. They’re all good. I hope you are feeling better.
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