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)

2) Can I Do It … Til I Need Glasses (1979)

3) Karzan, Master of the Jungle (1972)

4) The Penthouse (1967)

5) Hog Wild (1980)

6) From Noon Til Three (1976)

What do you think, Trailer Kitties?

6 Trailers From The Trailer Kitties

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Hi! As I write this, I am sick and miserable. I’ve spent almost all of today in bed and I imagine that I’ll do the same tomorrow. Hopefully, I’ll feel better on Tuesday. However, just because I’m sick, I’m not going to let that stop me from offering up another edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film Trailers.

Since I’m sick, I sent the Trailer Kitties out to round up 6 trailers for this post. Let’s see what they came back with.

1) The Uncanny (1977)

I can guess why the Trailer Kitties selected this trailer.

2) Twice Dead (1988)

According to the Trailer Kitties, twice as dead means twice as much fun. Cats are like that.

3) Nature of the Beast (1995)

I’m not really sold on this “trailer” but the Trailer Kitties saw that Eric Roberts was in it so they go it into their feline heads that this might be a prequel to The Dark Knight.

4) The Phantom of the Mall (1989)

Fortunately, the Trailer Kitties are bilingual.

5) Black Roses (1989)

Trailers like this one make me doubt the judgment of the Trailer Kitties.

6) In Love (1983)

Believe it or not, this classy-looking trailer is apparently for a hardcore, X-rated film. For that reason, the trailer itself has been rather heavily edited but I’m still going to include it because I like the song that plays over the action. (That said, I’m not real happy about my Trailer Kitties viewing this type of material…)