9/10
Off The Wall, Indeed....
29 October 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Produced by the aptly-named Off The Wall Video, this is the gore-hound's equivalent of being a kid locked in a candy factory. Trailers include THE UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS; WILDCAT WOMEN; CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS; DERANGED; TALES FROM THE CRYPT; THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED; THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE; MAN FROM DEEP RIVER; THE CORPSE GRINDERS; DEEP RED; COLOR ME BLOOD RED; MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND; THE MUTATIONS; HOUSE OF EXORCISM; GOD TOLD ME TO; SILENT NIGHT BLOODY NIGHT; BLOOD AND LACE; BLOODY PIT OF HORROR; DIABOLICAL DR. Z; LADY FRANKENSTEIN; BEYOND THE DOOR; I DRINK YOUR BLOOD; THE GHASTLY ONES; THREE ON A MEATHOOK, and many more.

Some previews, like the one for LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, are too short to do the movie justice. Others, such as the ILSA and NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES trailers, not only wallow in gore but rub your proboscis in it. Of special interest is the preview of Africa BLOOD AND GUTS which features animal slaughter and actual executions of humans–something to offend everyone! Others show gory little tidbits that never made it into the finished pictures. Fangoria's Dr. Cyclops found the framing device wearisome; I personally got a big kick out of watching the scatological–and undead–Happy and his nerdy pal screening the trailers for an audience of festering, limb-chomping, eyeball-munching zombies. (In the background at one point is a lurid poster for Andy Milligan's BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS–this is my kind of theater!)
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