Welcome to Part One of the Halloween Edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Trailers! Watch for Part 2 tomorrow and Part 3 on Monday.
I love this trailer for the title alone. Anything called I, Madman is automatically going to be great.
This is one of those trailers that I just happened to wander across on YouTube and the main reason it’s here is because I just like the kitschy, pop art feel to it. How scary can anyone named Harlequin really be?
“In Horrorvision!” Judging from this trailer, Horrorvision apparently is another way of saying, “Shot on video tape.” I actually own this film on DVD. I bought it solely because it was a Code Red DVD and I needed to complete my collection. I managed to watch about 10 minutes of it before the extreme tackiness of the whole thing overwhelmed me and I just had to turn it off and watch some Degrassi instead. Still the trailer has a certain deam-like quality to it.
This trailer gets to me because mannequins get to me. Seriously, they creep me out and once when I was like nine, I saw one move by itself in the mall. True story! Plus, the last time I went to Victoria’s Secret, there were headless, lingerie-clad mannequins in the display window. Seriously! Where were the heads? It was so creepy and serial killer-like. Don’t even get me started on Dexter this season. Seriously, mannequins suck.
Honestly, I would never stay at a place called Motel Hell. Especially if there’s a Comfort Inn nearby.
This trailer actually really scared me the first time I saw it. Once again, mannequins suck. (You can spot a few in this one.)
Through the Shattered Lens 