An unexpected masterpiece

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Boasting over 60 film trailers, this nifty compilation sequel to the immortal "Mad Ron's Prevues from Hell" takes the viewer on a wild'n'crazy tour of horror and exploitation cinema from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. Broken up into various segments that each focus on a certain theme (vampire pictures, revolt-of-nature outings, creature features, and so on), this comp has a sound sense of cohesion that these type of affairs tend to lack. Of course, there's more than enough blood, beasts, and breasts to appease even the most jaded hardcore grindhouse aficionado. The trailers for such obscurities as "Alabama's Ghost," "Meatcleaver Massacre," and "Psycho from Texas" provide the biggest cheesy belly laughs while the segment on T&A horror not surprisingly sizzles the most. Moreover, the segment on tacky promotional gimmicks is an absolute hoot. Hosted with lip-smacking enthusiasm by Joe Zaso and Raine Brown, with amusing lowbrow comedy relief supplied by lovable undead dummy Happy Goldsplat, this baby further benefits from cool guest appearances by a plethora of cult celebrities that include Debra Lamb, John Zacherle, William Forsythe, porn icons Seka and Ginger Lynn Allen, Darian Caine, Caroline Munro, Michelle Bauer, Linnea Quigley, George Stover, 42nd Street Pete, Conrad Brooks, April Monique Burril, Veronica Carlson, and George Stover. Extremely fun stuff.