Trailer Trauma (the first in a series) offers 137 minutes of movie previews. It is an enjoyable enough time, although I have seen better trailer collections.
First off, I have to give Garagehouse Pictures credit, of the sixty odd trailers on display I had only seen seven of them. True, I had seen different trailers for some of the films featured (Black Fist for example), but I am still impressed by how new to me most of these trailers were. The collection has its highlights: The College Girl Murders, Dawn of the Mummy, Goliathon, and an odd double bill of re-titled films Hex Massacre and Lucifer's Curse (actually Who Can Kill a Child? and The Chosen). All of these trailers are for movies that I have seen and enjoyed. However, Trailer Trauma also provided me with a few recommendations. Due to Trailer Trauma, I am now curious to see The Children, Knights of the City, and Naked Vengeance.
In spite of all its strengths, Trailer Trauma still ranks second tier as far as trailer collections are concerned. First, there are no extras on the disk. All the Blu-ray offers is trailers. Some information about either the films in the disk or the process of making the disk would have been appreciated.
Second, the arrangement of the trailers is somewhat problematic. Although some attempt is made to occasionally put similar trailers for similar movies side by side (the trailer for Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws is followed by one for Smokey and the Hot Wire Gang), the disk never builds the way a good collection should. Starting off with the teaser for Deathbed is a nice touch, but the disk soon falls into the pattern of here is a trailer, here is another trailer, here is yet another trailer, without a noticeable progression. Finally, the set ends with a trailer for the Italian western Captain Apache. While Captain Apache does not look like a bad movie, it is an odd choice to end a 137 minute disk of trailers, particularly since it is only the second western featured in the collection (The Legend of Frenchie King being the other). In contrast, Trailer War, the previous trailer collection I watched, saved its wildest trailer for the end. Trailer Trauma just kind of peters out.
I like Trailer Trauma, but I doubt I will re-visit the disk.
