To mark the 30th Anniversary of Gremlins, Warner Bros. has released Joe Dante’s (first) subversive masterpiece on DVD and VOD today. Here’s a round-up from around the web celebrating the little green guys’ special day. Pop Sugar‘s 30 Fun Facts about Gremlins Zach Galligan talks about the scaly critters’ lasting impression on pop culture here. Gremlins Online (your…

Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!   Exploitable potpourri of sex, comedy, action with high school setting has enough funny stuff to draw and amuse youth trade in ballyhoo markets and…

We here at TFH have always thought of the great Vilmos Zsigmond as one of “our” movie icons, having begun his distinguished cinematographic career in the humble swamps of low budget exploitation before rising on his own merit to a justly celebrated mainstream career. So it is with fond memories of the likes of The Sadist, The…

Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!   Currently tearing up ballyhoo market boxoffice records, this generally ordinary horror film has a potent selling gimmick in its rat heavies. A big grosser…

Our thanks to Adam Smasher and Soua Her of the Hero Complex Gallery for hosting the memorable opening night of Kings of Cult: An Art Tribute to Roger Corman and Joe Dante. A special shout-out to TFH’s own Chris Condon for his herculean effort in coordinating the efforts of all concerned. TFH gurus Ernest Dickerson, Mark Goldblatt. Larry Karaszewski, Ed…

Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!   Nurses‑make‑out saga is passable fodder for drive‑ins, with mild nudity values for ogling by the soft‑core male contingent. Rating: R. This sequel to the…

Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!   Modest, lively juvenile fantasy‑with‑music from the TV series combines live actors and life‑sized puppet characters in broad slapstick. OK for matinee and family trade….

  Trailers From Hell is proud to announce our collaboration with Hero Complex Gallery: KINGS OF CULT: A Tribute to Roger Corman and Joe Dante. We are proud and honored to present this pop-art tribute to these two legendary directors and TFH Gurus. The artwork will pay tribute to their careers in unique and interesting…

“Gahan Wilson’s work was my introduction to dark humor.”
— Stephen Colbert “For those of you who don’t get Gahan Wilson…That’s impossible! If you look at his cartoons and they don’t make you laugh, you’ve got to go back to the very beginning as a person and start with “knock-Knock” jokes and then work your way…

In Withnail and I, two English chums go “on holiday by mistake” and seek refuge from their horrid lives in a bottle of whatever is nearby. The movie is loaded with writing that is memorized and used by the film’s fans in their daily lives as often as possible. How can anyone resist lines like,…

Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!   Suspenseful, stylish horror‑murder film set in a girls’ school. Exploitable and a good bet for ballyhoo spots, drive‑ins. Rating: GP. While it blazes no…

While casting about for a French wine and movie pairing, it occurred to me how much French stuff we find all around us.  That’s no surprise if you are in France, of course.  You expect it there.  But in the United States we sure have a lot of French stuff on hand.  French wine, of…

Sherilyn Connelly, writer for the Village Voice and SF Weekly, alerted us to her interview with fashion designer Ayumi Seto in which Ayumi divulges one of her greatest inspirations, Riff Randell (P.J. Soles) of Rock ‘N’ Roll High School. Sheryilyn’s piece can be found in the latest issue of Topless Robot along with several photos…

Alamo CEO/Founder Tim League and other members of the American Genre Film Archive (including Nicholas Winding Refn and Paul Thomas Anderson) have begun an essential and exciting crowdfunding project on Indiegogo that, in the words of their press release, “(is) dedicated to supporting the mission to complete high resolution digital transfers of movies for which…

The new issue of Interview Magazine features a great interview with the legendary filmmaker, Roger Corman, conducted by one of the most accomplished graduates of the “Corman School”, the brilliant Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). Demme runs Roger through a quick tour of his decades-long career (not forgetting to include a…

From TFH Producer Elizabeth Stanley… A friend of mine was having trouble with a business colleague and asked an attorney friend what to do. Without hesitation, he answered “Take him out”. “To lunch?” she replied. The lawyer said “No, kill him.” I couldn’t help but recall this story after Joe and I saw the trailer…

Trailers From Hell welcomes all movies great and small but sometimes a particular trailer may not be up to the visual quality of the rest of our catalog or is simply too oddball to present in our usual format. Nevertheless, there’s such a wealth of exciting, strange and unusual films out there, we’d be remiss…

Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!   Plenty of perverse sensationalism for the sex fans in this outlandishly lurid Italian import. Strong sell should produce hot boxoffice in appropriate markets. Rating:…

Three significant early Paramount comedies make an appearance in our Great Global Search, Horse Feathers and Monkey Business starring the Marx Brothers and It’s A Gift with W.C. Fields. Groucho and company are nothing less than essential but in the grand scheme of things, Fields’ dysfunctional family portrait stands apart from its contemporaries as one of the greatest comedies of…

Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From September 27, 2007, it’s Allan Arkush on Bucket of Blood.   “Life is an obscure hobo, bumming a ride on the omnibus of art.” The wit and wisdom of writer Charles B. Griffith, Roger Corman’s hipper-than-thou alter-ego, is in even fuller flower here than in his classic…

Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!   Soft‑core sex antics, pseudo‑documentary style, with enough nudity to get by in appropriate markets. Rating: Self-imposed X. Surmising that “we all have a need…

“It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.” Frank Zappa For most people nostalgia is just another way of packaging the point of view that, surprise, surprise, the times we lived in were less complicated, better when we…

1955’s Artists and Models, directed by Frank Tashlin, neatly satirizes the cold-war paranoia of the fifties (and the McCarthy hearings in particular) by focusing on a similar witch hunt, the war against comic books. Tashlin’s film, starring Dean Martin as a failed “fine” artist reduced to drawing for comic books and Jerry Lewis as the fella who reads…

Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From September 21, 2007, it’s Sam Hamm on 20 Million Miles to Earth.   The dino-like Ymir is one of Ray Harryhausen’s most personable stop-motion creations and the last to benefit from his brilliant black-and-white lighting. Currently available in a lamentably colorized video version which shows Ray’s work…

Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments!   Heavy sex elements will help sell this crude, inept Danish import to the undiscriminating in ballyhoo situations. Makes up in obvious exploitation values what…

Most movie trailers boil down a film to its essence, resulting in 2½ minutes of unbridled sensationalism. That’s pretty much a trailer’s raison d’être and we love ’em for it. But what if the entire movie was like that? Such is the case for another of the films in our Great Global Trailer Search, 1960’s The…