It’s time for the latest installment of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation trailers and, continuing with October’s theme, they are once again all horror trailers. This week, I set out to prove that Argento’s a master and everything’s scarier in German. Let’s begin:
There’s no way I could possibly get through October without including at least one Friday the 13th trailer. I went with this one in order to specifically prove that everything’s scarier in German.
2) Paganini Horror (1989)
The trailer for this Italian horror film is in German as well and I have to be honest that, despite being a fourth German, I speak the language like not at all. Then again, considering that this is one of Luigi Cozzi’s films, it’s probably for the best that I can’t understand the trailer. All I know is that the killer’s mask is creepy and who doesn’t love Venice? Seriously, I went there the summer after I graduated high school and there’s no other place I’d more want to be stalked by Klaus Kinski. One more piece of trivia (and don’t quote me on this), I think that Cozzi may have attempted to sell this film as a part of Dario Argento’s Three Mothers trilogy.
3) Suspiria (1977)
Speaking of Dario Argento’s Three Mothers trilogy, here’s the U.S. trailer for the film that started it all, Suspiria. While you can probably guess that Suspiria is one of my favorite horror films, it’s also one of my favorite ballet movies as well. In fact, the ballet aspect of Suspiria is largely responsible for me discovering my love of Italian horror because, if not for the fact that it took place at a cursed dance academy, I doubt I would have paid as much attention to the movie the first time I saw it.
While Suspiria is definitely more fun, I still think that the second part of the trilogy — Inferno — is a better horror film. Seriously, the underwater sequence at the start of this film still freaks me out.
Twenty-seven years after Inferno, Argento finally concluded the trilogy with Mother of Tears. A lot of horror fans practically foam at the mouth going on and on about how much they hated this film. I happened to have enjoyed it. So there.
Continuing on the Argento theme, here’s a classic trailer for a classic film. George Romero may have directed the American version of Dawn of the Dead but the European version (known as Zombi) was put together by Argento and guess which one is superior? Anyway, this trailer is for the Romero version:
Through the Shattered Lens 