The Daily Grindhouse: The Evil Dead

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Arleigh

This weekend we see the release of another horror remake. A remake of a film that’s considered a grindhouse and exploitation classic that’s sure to anger its legion of fans. Well, that anger seem to have dissipated as hype and buzz about the remake started to spread throughout the film blogging community with emphasis from those covering genre.

The Evil Dead by Sam Raimi still remains one of those horror films that horror fans love to talk about. It’s an exercise in the low-budget, guerrilla-style filmmaking that didn’t just introduce Raimi to the genre crowd, but also gave us all the greatest gift in the form of Bruce Campbell aka “God When He Takes Human Form”.

The franchise which grew around the original film may have morphed into classic horror slapstick, but nothing beats the original in being a truly brutal film. Yes, it’s a horror film that some find quite entertaining but it’s also a film that seems to relish in punishing its audience. There’s not much slapstick about this first film in the series and for some it continues to be one of the top horror films ever made.

So, for everyone who go out this weekend to watch the remake, Evil Dead, but who have never seen the original should go find a copy of the dvd (there’s like a bazillion different editions of it) and see why it remains a true horror and grindhouse classic.

Ten Trailers From Jess Franco

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Jess Franco. Franco directed at least 199 films and, while he was never a favorite of the critics, he was a favorite for those of us who appreciated his unique aesthetic and improvisational style of filmmaking. Franco made a few good films and a lot of a bad films but even his worse films were usually more interesting than the usual films churned out by more “respectable” filmmakers. In a time when every director is claiming to be an independent artist, Franco truly was.

Trailers for Franco’s films often showed up in my Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film Trailers series. Here’s ten of them.

1) Female Vampire

2) The Awful Dr. Orloff

3) Faceless

4) Venus In Furs

5) Necromonicon (a.k.a. Succubus)

6) Kiss Me Monster

7) Eugenie: Story of Her Journey Into Perversion

8) Vampyros Lesbos

9) The Castle of Fu Manchu

10) 99 Women

Jesus Franco Manera, R.I.P.

6 Trailers For Easter

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Hi everyone! The trailer kitties have teamed up with the trailer bunnies and they’ve come up with the latest edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers!

1) Spasmo (1974)

2) Grand Slam (1967)

3) Nightmares Come Out At Night (1970)

4) Count Dracula (1970)

5) High Crime (1973)

6) Johnny Hamlet (1967)

What do you think, Trailer Kitty?

Six Prehistoric Trailers

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film Trailers has a theme! Enjoy!

1) Teenage Caveman (1957)

2) Caveman (1981)

3) One Million Years B.C. (1966)

4) The Land That Time Forgot (1975)

5) The People That Time Forgot (1977)

6) The Lost World (1960)

6 Trailers For The Hungover Viewer

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Did everyone out there have a good St. Patrick’s Day weekend? I know I did and, the morning, I woke up with the hangover to prove it! Fortunately, even though I was busy dancing and drinking, I knew that I could depend on the trailer kitties to gather 6 more of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers.

Here’s what they found for us this week:

1) The Pink Angels (1971)

2) The Mad Bomber (1973)

3) The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)

4) Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985)

5) Hercules (1958)

6) The Last Chase (1981)

What do you think, trailer kitty?

6 Trailers For Spring Break

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Welcome to another edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers!

1) Terminal Island (1973)

This trailer (which contains some nudity and is NSFW) seems appropriate for Spring Break.

2) The Big Gundown (1966)

How can you go wrong with Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian in the same film?

3) Slaughter (1972)

With a name like Slaughter, he’s got to be good.

4) Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off (1973)

Not surprisingly, Slaughter would return.

5) The Beatniks (1960)

However, before Van Cleef, Milian, and Slaughter, there were … BEATNIKS!

6) The Horror of Dracula (1958)

I’m including this trailer in honor of Christopher Lee who is now … Sir Christopher Lee!

What do you think, Trailer Kitties?

Keep Marching On Into March With 6 More Trailers

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Hi everyone and welcome to the merry month of March! As I sit here writing this, I’m still trying to recover from the amazing shock of having not only The Amazing Race, The Walking Dead, Enlightened, and Girls to watch on Sunday but now, the Celebrity Apprentice as well!

(I’m rooting for Lisa Rinna, by the way. She’s a Lisa and we stick together…)

However, I will not allow a little exhaustion to prevent me from sharing yet another edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers!

1) Heavy Traffic (1973)

2) Who Saw Her Die? (1972)

3) Navajo Joe (1966)

4) The Blood-Stained Shadow (1978)

5) Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)

6) A Black Veil For Lisa (1968)

I’ve actually shared this one before but I just love this trailer so much that I had to share it a second time. “Every man fears a Lisa…”

What do you think, Trailer Kitty?

6 Trailers For 6 Films That Won 0 Oscars

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Hi! For this week’s edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film Trailers, we will be taking a look at a few trailers for a few films that were not honored by the Academy.

1) Alien From L.A. (1988)

2) The Adventures of Hercules (1985)

From director Luigi Cozzi!

3) Blood Games (1990)

4) The Haunting of Morella (1990)

5) The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)

From director Jess Franco!

6) Blown Away (1992)

What do you think, Trailer Kitty?

6 Trailers For The State Of Our Union

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

This Tuesday, while the rest of the America was watching President Obama give yet another speech, I was actually doing something important. I was sending the trailer kitties out to gather 6 more trailers for the latest edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film trailers.

Well, it took them a while but they’ve returned with 6 trailers that they think sum up the current state of the union. Let’s see if they’re right.

(Before anyone gets offended by the last comment, please remember that they’re just a bunch of kitties.)

1) It Happened Here (1965)

2) Society (1989)

3) The Dentist (1996)

4) Edge of Sanity (1989)

5) Evil In The Deep (1975)

6) Parents (1989)

What do you think, Trailer Kitty?

6 Trailers From 2 Tired Trailer Kitties

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The trailer kitties were still pretty tired from the Super Bowl (they got a little bit too hyper when all the lights went out in the stadium) but I still sent them out to gather six more trailers for this week’s edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film Trailers. Here’s what they returned with.

One quick note: As much as I love the trailer kitties, they occasionally bring me trailers for films that weren’t really grindhouse films. However, the trailer for Pinocchio’s Birthday Party was just weird and creepy enough that I decided to include it anyway.

1) Pinocchio’s Birthday Party (1974)