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Double Bill! The Velvet Vampire (1971) w/ Scream Of The Demon Lover (1970)

Velvet Vampire

Directed by Stephanie Rothman.

Starring Michael Blodgett and Sherry Miles.

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Scream of the Demon Lover

Directed by José Luis Merino.

Starring Erna Schürer.

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A great double-feature trailer from two obscure early-70's cheapie horror films.

Scream of the Demon Lover was a European film called Ivanna brought into American distribution by Roger Corman's New World Pictures and Velvet Vampire is a largely forgotten American film produced by Charles Swartz who was the head of production at Corman's company.

I'm not sure of the origins of this trailer but seeing that they were both Corman entities, these two films were probably screened back to back at some drive-ins at the time.

Humanoids from the Deep (1980)

Directed by Barbara Peters.

Starring Vic Morrow.

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Another bizzare entry from the extensive Roger Corman-produced catalogue that revolves around pollution created fish-men rising from the water to mate with human women!

Barbara Peters, who directed another Cult Trailers favourite "Bury Me An Angel", was fired from this movie by Corman after she refused to shoot additional footage of the monsters attacking some young women in an effort to get more nudity in the film.

Vic Morrow would go on to star in two movies by one of my personal favourite directors, Enzo G. Castellari, in "The Last Shark" and "1990: Bronx Warriors" over the next two years before being killed in an accident on the set of the "Twilight Zone" film during a segment being directed by John Landis.

Popcorn (1991)

Directed by Mark Herrier.

Starring Jill Schoelen and Dee Wallace.

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The Stuff (1985)

Directed by Larry Cohen.

Starring Michael Moriarty and Garrett Morris.

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A product of its time, the 80's, when mass advertising and the tide of junk food began to take over. This is a truly fun and subversive dig at the plastic Reagan 80's by Larry Cohen, who was also responsible for a similarly themed It's Alive in 1974 (although the Stuff turns out to be an all-natural substance from the core of the earth!!).

One of the first "consumer culture gone wrong" horror films (besides the original Dawn of the Dead), The Stuff pays homage to classic films like The Blob and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers while still packing in all sorts of 80's strangeness that makes this a nice piece of memorabilia.

Among my group of friends when I was a young kid, this movie was a video store favourite because it was harmless enough that the parents didn't really care and gross enough to get us our kicks.

The Pink Panther (1963)

Directed by Blake Edwards.

Starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale.

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This is not the type of film usually featured on this site but I wanted to show it simply because you never see trailers like this anymore.

Animation and quirky title sequences were abandoned in the early 90's with few exceptions so watching something like this is an obscure experience in the post-ironic age of modern comedy.

It also doesn't hurt that the Pink Panther is a near perfect comedy that never gets old.

The Funhouse (1981)

Watch the entire movie here!


Directed by Tobe Hooper.

Starring Elizabeth Berridge and Shawn Carson.

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I've seen this film many times over the years and am always struck by its Saturday afternoon throwback style. Despite its rather gruesome poster, The Funhouse was fairly tame for the period that it came out in and is filled with old-fashioned scares.

Hooper would hit it big with Poltergeist the next year, further removing him from his counter-culture past as the helmer of the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 1974.