5/5 FIVE-STAR BUDGET BUY ALERT!
  by K. Brown (Walnut, Ca USA)
If you are a fan of B-Movies, or just want to become a bit more familiar with the genre, this DVD is an absolute steal! I bought this "Something Weird Sampler" because of the low price, but my expectations were not high. I say with a grin "How wrong I was!"

A combination of theater trailers and 5-10 minutes snipets of flicks, The Sampler is an absolute video feast. What makes this budget buy so valuable is that a good portion of these films are unwatchable as full length films, but a sampling of the film or its trailer is priceless.

A few of the films like "Confessions of a Psycho-Cat" and "Swamp Girl" are low budget gems I enjoy on their entirety. The trailers for both these movies are included, and are every bit as awesome as the films themselves (by the way, the man being gored to death by the "Lady Matador Psycho-Cat" is none other than Jake LaMotta!).

And if you are one of those fans of 1960s nudie & cheesecake movies, this trailer compilation has nudity galore in many of these previews, including "Wham-Bam Thank You Spaceman," "Nude on the Moon," and "Kiss Me Quick."

Other truly hep trailers include "Kidnapped Co-Ed," "Two Thousand Maniacs," "Mantis In Lace" (late 1960s classic about a stripper who, under the influence of LSD, becomes a killing machine!), "Johnny Firecloud," "For The Hell Of It," and LOTS MORE!

I truly hope there is a sequel to this Sampler. It would be great to see other trailers and samplings that Something Weird Video does have in their library like "Pot, Parents and Police," "The Psychedelic Priest," and "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre."

4/5 Festivals of flesh, fantasy, and fear....
  by cookieman108 (Inside the jar...)
Do you like movie trailers? I sure do...do you like sick, twisted, disgusting, depraved, twisted sleezefest-o-ramas with lots of gratuitous nudity covered in buckets of blood? I sure...don't...but never mind that. Image entertainment and Something Weird Video (SWV) bring us over 100 trailers from some of the sleaziest movies ever made. And for under five bucks!

Basically this is sort of an advertisement for SWV to showcase all the films (cough, cough) they've released onto DVD. Some of the highlights (or lowlights, depending on your point of view) are Two Thousand Maniacs (1964), House on Bare Mountain (1962), Basket Case (1982), The Mighty Gorga (1969), Johnny Firecloud (1975), The Gore, Gore Girls (1972), Deadly Weapons (1973), Fiend of Dope Island (1961), The Curious Dr. Humpp (1971), and Blood Feast (1963). Believe me, these are some of the most truly awful exploitation movies ever made, but at least I was able to preview them here instead of blindly buying them individually at a much higher price.

The DVD does provide an alphabetical listing and chapter stops for each movie trailer, so you have the option to choose to only watch the ones you want or you can choose to have them play one after another and watch them all nonstop. I was only able to view a small quantity at a time, as some got pretty revolting. The one thing I didn't like about this presentation was Something Weird Video decided they needed to put the letters 'SWV' on the bottom, right hand corner of the screen throughout, I suppose as a means to protect their property. It became a bit annoying, even though they obviously tried to make it unobtrusive by 'blending' the logo in a little, making the letters semi-transparent. Do they do this on their individual releases of movies on DVD? I hope not...

I do own many of these trailers on a couple of Sinister Cinema VHS releases, and I was slightly disappointed in that SWV didn't include some nifty theater spots that are included on the Sinister Cinema videos between some of the trailers, like that one that has dancing concession food singing to you to go to the lobby and buy delicious hot dogs, popcorn, sodas and various candies. That would have made this over the top for me. Other than that, this was a lot of fun, but avoid this disc if you have a weak stomach or an aversion to seeing a whole lot of flabby nekkid women.

Cookieman108

5/5 Life is better in the bargain bin
  by Steven Hellerstedt
The 98 theatrical trailers on this dvd are so gawd awful they're good. I thought I knew bad, but these movies are worse than bad. They're worse than the worst I've ever seen, which is Dwayne Esper's Maniac! At least they look like the worst, although trailers usually contain the best a movie has to offer.

Buy it and enjoy.

5/5 Worthy of 10 Stars!
  by Robertdale R. Crow (Smithville, NJ USA)
Stumbling upon this masterpiece, hidden beneath the Bargain Display at the local Best Buy, is for me the cinematic equivalent of discovering King Tut's Tomb and The Dead Sea Scrolls - combined.

Outstanding entries include "Goliath and The Dragon", "Godmonster of Indian Flats" and "The Erotic Adventures of Zorro."

Sure, you could spend a fortune at NYU studying film appreciation or you could just plunk down a few bucks for this DVD and receive a truly uncensored education.





5/5 for those of you who go to the extras in S.W. first
  by Scott Jeune (kerhonkson, ny)
For those of us who get Something Weird Dvds and go to the trailers first, this is for you. Quite possibly the best four dollar thing I have ever bought!! Trailers from most of Something Weird's dvds are in here (some of the films have lost trailers), it presents a nice twisted melange of the various oddities that S.W. has to offer. Every aspect and timeframe of grindhouse cinema is in here from roughies to spoof porn. All I have to say is that I hope S.W. does another one of those real soon. Thanks to them and to Image for giving us yet another twisted oddity (and it really is, folks, in kind of a clean and wholesome way. Trust me, you could see almost worse in a typical NYPD Blue episode, but this just makes you want to put on a raincoat and keep a low profile. Give me Liberty or give me Rialto!!