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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…