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Dedicated to celebrating classic, cult, and obscure films featuring commentary from renowned filmmakers, critics, and cinephiles. www.trailersfromhell.com Our official podcast can be listened to anywhere! https://moviesthatmademe.com

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 3d

Our podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social returns with Eddington writer/director Ari Aster, in the first half of a two-parter! Ari discusses some of, you guessed it, the movies and directors that made him with @josholson.bsky.social & @thejoedante.bsky.social.

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EDDINGTON writer/director Ari Aster - The Movies That Made Me | iHeart

Writer, director, producer Ari Aster discusses a few of his favorite films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 8h

And check Mercedes’ original pod conversation with hosts @josholson.bsky.social & @thejoedante.bsky.social here:

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BONE LAKE director Mercedes Bryce Morgan

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 8h

Tune in to our podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social’s Spotify feed to watch the trailers for Eyes Wide Shut, Poor Things, Showgirls and more for our Mercedes Bryce Morgan trailer show — celebrating the horny & unsettling movies that made the director of Bone Lake!

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TRAILER SHOW: Mercedes Bryce Morgan

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 11h

Rooms With Views Week wraps up with TFH Fearless Leader @thejoedante.bsky.social's trailer commentary for the raucous Marx Brothers adventure Room Service, co-starring a pre-I Love Lucy Lucille Ball and Ann Miller.

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Room Service | Trailers From Hell

In a plot reminiscent of W.C. Fields’ The Old Fashioned Way, Groucho plays a down on his luck theatrical producer saddled with a stage full of hungry actors. Adapted from the 1937 broadway hit, this w...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 1d

It’s TFH Guru Katt Shea’s birthday! Commemorate it with these classic trailer commentaries!

Altered States
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Shock Corridor
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The Egg And I
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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrate TFH Guru @realgdt.bsky.social's birthday with these classic trailer commentaries!

Zombie
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I Confess
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 1d

Underdog Warners actress Ida Lupino could hold her head high, turning out pictures like the overachieving backstage musical soaper The Hard Way — a Bette Davis reject that proved a winner. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews the film’s new Warner Archive Blu-ray:

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The Hard Way - Trailers From Hell

Underdog Warners actress Ida Lupino could hold her head high, turning out pictures like this — a Bette Davis reject that proved a winner. It’s an overachieving backstage musical soaper using some of t...

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 1d

Alongside Larry Cohen's memoirs, I'm writing the forward to Larry Cohen's unproduced screenplay HEADHUNTER. This book will also have some cool rare photos from Cohen's career in it.

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 2d

Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that the new box set, The Cinema of Powell & Pressburger Collection One, contains one classic after another, including three of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Technicolor masterpieces.

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The Cinema of Powell & Pressburger Collection One - Trailers From Hell

This impressive import collection of ‘Archers’ pictures is just one classic after another, including three of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Technicolor masterpieces. The boxed set also carri...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 2d

Rooms With Views Week resumes with the John Landis trailer commentary for the bleak post-apocalyptic Richard Lester/Spike Milligan crossover The Bed Sitting Room!

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The Bed Sitting Room | Trailers From Hell

"I think man has no option but to continue his own stupidity" said co-author Spike Milligan of his post-apocalyptic 1962 play, filmed by Richard Lester in 1969. Underappreciated in its day, one critic...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 2d

EVERYONE must be listening to Kilmerfest (a spinoff of Brodyfest), an excellent movie-by-movie Val Kilmer breakdown!

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1.04 – Top Gun

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 3d

The Quatermass Xperiment is out in a massive new Hammer boxed set. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that Nigel Kneale’s original “organic invasion” scare show hasn’t lost its power.

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The Quatermass Xperiment - 4K - Trailers From Hell

Wonder of wonders — Hammer’s massive boxed sets seem unreasonable until one sees the depth and breadth of the extras. Nigel Kneale’s original ‘organic invasion’ scare show hasn’t lost its power, thank...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 3d

EDDINGTON writer/director Ari Aster - The Movies That Made Me | iHeart

Writer, director, producer Ari Aster discusses a few of his favorite films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 4d

Rooms With Views Week kicks off with, naturally, Bernard Rose’s brand-new trailer commentary for the Merchant-Ivory classic A Room With A View, starring a very young Daniel-Day Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter, and Julian Sands!

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A Room With A View | Trailers From Hell

A crowd-pleasing film with art house appeal can mean a bonanza at the box office—a formula that made James Ivory’s film one of the surprise hits of 1985. Based on E. M. Forster’s 1908 romance, the mov...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 5d

Celebrate Trailers From Hell Guru Ti West’s birthday by rewatching the X trilogy!

When you finish that, check out these trailer commentaries:

The ’Burbs
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Teen Wolf
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The Golden Child
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hggd...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 5d

This week on Trailers From Hell, we remember another fallen great, Claudia Cardinale. Blood Of The Vines scribe @randyfuller1.bsky.social supplies wine pairings for her star turns in The Leopard, Once Upon A Time In The West and 8 ½:

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 6d

A quarter of the 21st century is almost over, and there has been no lack of quality horror, filmic or otherwise, during that time. Watching The Dark’s Terry Morgan will be starting at the bottom of his top 25 horror movies this century, five at a time:

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The 25 Greatest Horror Films of the Past Quarter Century, Part One - Trailers From Hell

A quarter of the twenty-first century is almost over, and there has been no lack of quality horror, filmic or otherwise, during that time. It seems like an appropriate time to take stock and being tha...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 7d

We wrap up our Claudia Cardinale tribute week with Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary for the avant garde Federico Fellini classic 8 ½!

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8 1/2 | Trailers From Hell

Federico Fellini's follow up to La Dolce Vita (and his last black-and-white movie) is the rare classic that rewards each viewing over a lifetime with new and different insights. A favorite of virtuall...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 8d

Akira Kurosawa’s modern crime masterpiece High and Low takes the leap to @criterion.bsky.social 4K. It’s a kidnapping tale in a context of social friction — the perpetrator is maddened by the gap between haves and have nots. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews:

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High AND Low - 4K - Trailers From Hell

Akira Kurosawa’s modern crime masterpiece takes the leap to 4K. It’s a kidnapping tale in a context of social friction — the perpetrator is maddened by the gap between haves and have nots. A superb de...

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Joe Dante @thejoedante.bsky.social · 9d

We managed to wrangle almost the entire Gremlins cast and crew together for a group photo on the backlot one day. Who can you spot? Autographed stills from Gizmo and/or me are available upon request!

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The Gremlins Gang On The Backlot | Renfield Collection

The cast and crew of director Joe Dante's classic creature feature Gremlins takes a group photo on the backlot!

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 9d

We’re still Remembering Claudia Cardinale this week on Trailers From Hell! Tune in to TFH Guru John Landis’ epic trailer commentary for the epic Sergio Leone Western, Once Upon A Time In The West.

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Once Upon A Time In The West | Trailers From Hell

Sergio Leone's 1968 masterpiece gives the lie to the term "spaghetti western". In a hastily shortened version it was a box-office disappointment in the U.S.but it played in the same theater in Paris f...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Samuel Sherman:

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Samuel M. Sherman, Producer of ‘Satan’s Sadists,’ ‘The Naughty Stewardesses’ and Other Exploitation Films, Dies at 85

He and ill-fated director Al Adamson fed drive-ins with these kinds of movies — ‘Dracula vs. Frankenstein’ among them — starting in the late 1960s.

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 10d

Our podcast @moviesthatmademe.bsky.social is back with a bang! Bone Lake director Mercedes Bryce Morgan discusses 10 movies that are horny and unsettling (much like Bone Lake) with hosts @josholson.bsky.social & @thejoedante.bsky.social!

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BONE LAKE director Mercedes Bryce Morgan

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 10d

Hawke and Linklater unpack their latest collab!

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Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on “Blue Moon,” their Creative Collaboration, & More

In this episode, we welcome four-time Oscar-nominated writer, producer and actor Ethan Hawke and five-time Oscar-nominated writer, producer and director Richard Linklater. In our chat, we hear about t...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 11d

We’re Remembering Claudia Cardinale this week on TFH! First up, tune in to TFH Guru @larrythek.bsky.social's trailer commentary for the Visconti period epic The Leopard.

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The Leopard | Trailers From Hell

Classical movie making of the highest order, Luchino Visconti's sweeping 1963 epic set during the Italian revolution plants Burt Lancaster at the center of a long form feast for the senses embodied by...

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Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 12d

This week on Trailers From Hell, we remember Robert Redford, the guy every guy’s wife says she'd have married had she had the chance. Blood of the Vines' @randyfuller1.bsky.social has wine pairings for The Candidate, Three Days of the Condor, & The Hot Rock.

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