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Glenn Erickson of CineSavant posits that, shot for shot, David Lynch’s galactic epic Dune is as brilliant as any of his films, with vivid characterizations, strong performances and a parade of weird, strikingly Lynchian visuals.

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Dune '84 - Dual Version Edition - Trailers From Hell

Shot for shot, David Lynch’s galactic epic is as brilliant as any of his films, with vivid characterizations, strong performances and a parade of weird, strikingly Lynchian visuals. The bizarre Lynch sensibility is a good match for Frank Herbert’s complicated saga; Viavision’s Limi..

07:14 PM - May 19, 2024

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Our Hail To The King Week festivities close out with, what else, a Vincent Price-Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe adaption! Tales Of Terror, the star-studded anthology, is the subject of today's trailer commentary:

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Tales of Terror - Trailers From Hell

Roger Corman takes us behind the scenes of his fourth Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, a three-story omnibus written by Richard Matheson. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone seem to be having a swell time.

05:09 PM - May 19, 2024

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Our Hail To The King Week festivities continue with Roger Corman's classic trailer commentary for the Shelley Winters rambunctious crime thriller Bloody Mama:

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Bloody Mama - Trailers From Hell

Movie legend Roger Corman made his TFH debut with this commentary for his 1970 fantasia on the Depression-era Barker crime family. AIP wanted him to shoot it on the Warner Bros. backlot, but he convinced them to shoot on Arkansas locations, which made all the difference. A no-holds-barred Shelley Wi..

04:33 PM - May 18, 2024

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In Mario Bava’s haunted space opera Planet Of The Vampires, Barry Sullivan and Norma Bengell struggle to overcome the curse of a ‘demon planet.' Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews the film's new Radiance Films Blu-ray:

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Planet of the Vampires - Trailers From Hell

Radiance comes through again, giving us Mario Bava’s haunted space opera in multiple versions. The original Italian encoding improves greatly on everything we’ve seen so far — it’s dazzling. Barry Sullivan and Norma Bengell struggle to overcome the curse of a ‘demon pla..

10:10 PM - May 17, 2024

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Hail To The King Week races into ’60s counterculture with unique ferocity! Tune in for Roger Corman’s classic commentary for his Peter Fonda biker picture The Wild Angels:

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The Wild Angels - Trailers From Hell

The counterculture goes mainstream in this emblematic Vietnam-era classic. There would have been no Easy Rider without Roger Corman’s controversial but popular Hell’s Angels movie, which set the trend for a plethora of drive-in biker pictures over the following decade. Peter Bogdanovich contributed ..

06:19 PM - May 17, 2024

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Our Roger Corman celebration goes western, young man, with Roger’s classic commentary for his picture Gunslinger, starring Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes enthusiastically:

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Gunslinger - Trailers From Hell

Sexy B-movie icons Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes enthusiastically enact a Johnny Guitar-like enmity in Roger Corman's offbeat feminist western-cum-Greek tragedy. The climax is a sort of a mini-budget Duel in the Sun.

11:57 PM - May 16, 2024

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The little-seen Paramount war picture Submarine Commando — out in a fresh Kino Lorber Blu-ray — finishes William Holden’s run with lovely Nancy Olson as his co-star. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews:

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Submarine Command - Trailers From Hell

This little-seen Paramount war picture finishes William Holden’s run with lovely Nancy Olson as his co-star; John Farrow’s direction gets serious about a naval officers’ ‘between the wars’ troubles, and then settles on a recruiting stance for the then-hot Korean War. It..

08:44 PM - May 16, 2024

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Commemorate TFH Guru Rod Lurie’s birthday with these trailer commentaries!

Patton
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Taxi Driver
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All The President’s Men
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08:16 PM - May 15, 2024

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Hail To The King Week, our tribute to late great TFH Guru Roger Corman, continues today with Roger's classic trailer commentary for The Premature Burial, his third Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, this time starring Ray Milland and Hazel Court:

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The Premature Burial - Trailers From Hell

Roger Corman explains why Ray Milland is filling Vincent Price's shoes in his third Edgar Allan Poe adaptation. As the tortured 19th century nobleman terrified that his catalepsy will lead to being buried alive, the morose Milland combines with the grim storyline to position this as Corman..

07:10 PM - May 15, 2024

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Hail To The King Week continues as we celebrate the legacy of TFH Guru Roger Corman. Today, we revisit Roger’s trailer commentary for the Chicago gangster adventure The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre!

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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Trailers From Hell

Roger Corman takes us behind the scenes on one of his rare big studio projects, a detailed and largely accurate account of the 1929 mass murder of Bugs Moran’s Northside Gang in a Chicago garage. George Segal plays the ill-fated, not to mention henpecked, Frank Gusenberg. Paul Frees narrates as the ..

05:15 PM - May 14, 2024

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Our podcast The Movies That Made Me returns with a brand-new multi-hyphenate guest! Writer/director/actor Brit Marling discusses the portrayal of women in some of her favorite movies with hosts Josh Olson & Joe Dante.

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Brit Marling | The Movies That Made Me

Writer/Director/Actor Brit Marling (A Murder at the End of the World, the OA, Another Earth) discusses the portrayal of women in some of her favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

01:56 PM - May 14, 2024

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The James Bond adventure You Only Live Twice numbers among Hundreds of Beavers filmmakers Mike Cheslik & Ryland Brickson Cole Tews’ favorite movies to watch together while they drink, as they relay in the latest installment of our pod The Movies That Made Me!

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08:33 PM - May 13, 2024

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Late great Trailers From Hell Guru Roger Corman was a longtime friend to TFH, so we're marking his passing by posting a different one of his trailer commentaries each day this week. Here's today's commentary, for his rambunctious western Apache Woman:

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Apache Woman - Trailers From Hell

Roger Corman tells us the story behind his second ten-day western, a pro-Native American melodrama in the Broken Arrow mold. Dick Miller, originally hired to play a Native American, was called upon to fill in several other roles as well, all of whom bite the dust. At one point he actually shoots him..

05:38 PM - May 13, 2024

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Hailed in Europe but ignored here, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In The West transcends classic status, writes Glenn Erickson of CineSavant. Its operatic gunfighter rituals become drama-sculptures of genre destiny.

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Once Upon a Time in the West - 4K - Trailers From Hell

“Only at the point of dying.” Hailed in Europe but ignored here, Sergio Leone’s most prestigious western transcends classic status. Its operatic gunfighter rituals become drama-sculptures of ‘genre destiny.’ Henry Fonda overturns his ethical, decent screen image with ..

09:36 PM - May 12, 2024

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This week for his Trailers From Hell column Blood of the Vines, Randy Fuller pair wines with a trio of slightly bent westerns, courtesy of TFH Guru Mike Schlesinger. No deadeye, just wine.

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06:51 PM - May 12, 2024

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This week for his Trailers From Hell column Blood of the Vines, Randy Fuller pair wines with a trio of slightly bent westerns, courtesy of TFH Guru Mike Schlesinger. No deadeye, just wine.

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06:49 PM - May 12, 2024

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RIP to TFH Guru Roger Corman. We've lost one of cinema's all-time leading lights.

10:14 PM - May 11, 2024

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Celebrate TFH Guru Dan Ireland’s birthday with these classic commentaries!

Bad Santa
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The Apartment
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The Haunting
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08:26 PM - May 11, 2024

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The Mask of Fu Manchu is not so much a movie as an issue of Architectural Digest brought to life, writes Charlie Largent of CineSavant. It's a high-gloss catalogue of luxurious torture chambers designed with the modern sadist in mind.

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The Mask of Fu Manchu - Trailers From Hell

The Mask of Fu Manchu Blu-ray Warner Archive 1932 Starring Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy, and Lewis Stone as Nayland Smith Written by Irene Kuhn, Edgar Allan Woolf, and John Willard Photographed by Tony Gaudio Directed by Charles Brabin The Mask of Fu Manchu is not so much a movie as an issue of Architec..

07:10 PM - May 11, 2024

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Hi-ho Silver! Away! Wacky Westerns Week with Michael Schlesinger gallops to a thrilling conclusion! Today, TFH Guru Mike Schlesinger makes the case for Gore Verbinski’s epic adaptation of The Lone Ranger, starring Helena Bonham Carter and NO ONE ELSE.

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The Lone Ranger - Trailers From Hell

Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp don't just push the envelope, they light it on fire in this anti-nostalgic look at the masked avenger and his faithful Indian partner—in other words, don't expect a return to "those thrilling days of yesteryear", this is a defiantly post-modern (som..

03:52 PM - May 10, 2024

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In Devil’s Doorway, Robert Taylor is a Shoshone rancher in Wyoming, who comes back from the Civil War to find that opportunists are passing laws that dispossess him of his citizenship & property rights. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews the film:

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Devil's Doorway - Trailers From Hell

Guy Trosper, Anthony Mann and John Alton’s western is shocking stuff for 1950 — Hollywood did address the historical raw deal handed Native Americans, way before the activist ’70s. Robert Taylor is a Shoshone rancher in Wyoming, who comes back from the Civil War with medals and fin..

06:38 PM - May 09, 2024

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In Devil’s Doorway, Robert Taylor is a Shoshone rancher in Wyoming, who comes back from the Civil War to find that opportunists are passing laws that dispossess him of his citizenship & property rights. Glenn Erickson of CineSavant reviews the film:

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Devil's Doorway - Trailers From Hell

Guy Trosper, Anthony Mann and John Alton’s western is shocking stuff for 1950 — Hollywood did address the historical raw deal handed Native Americans, way before the activist ’70s. Robert Taylor is a Shoshone rancher in Wyoming, who comes back from the Civil War with medals and fin..

06:37 PM - May 09, 2024

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Wacky Westerns Week with Michael Schlesinger continues apace! In the subject of today’s Mike Schlesinger trailer commentary, Support Your Local Gunfighter, con man James Garner plays both sides of a feud, while Suzanne Pleshette tries to keep him in line.

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Support Your Local Gunfighter - Trailers From Hell

Maverick meets Yojimbo in Burt Kennedy's raucous horse opera about a confidence man working both sides of a small town feud. James Garner plays the conniving charmer and Suzanne Pleshette is the fiery belle determined to corral his worst instincts. Hollywood's golden age is represented by ..

03:55 PM - May 08, 2024

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Our podcast The Movies That Made Me is back! Today, the writers, director and star of Hundreds of Beavers, Mike Cheslik & Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, talk with hosts Josh Olson & Joe Dante about some of the movies they like to watch together while they drink.

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Hundreds of Beavers | The Movies That Made Me

The writers, director & star of Hundreds of Beavers, Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, talk with Josh and Joe about some of the movies they like to watch together while they drink.

09:44 AM - May 07, 2024

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Our podcast The Movies That Made Me is back! Today, the writers, director and star of Hundreds of Beavers, Mike Cheslik & Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, talk with hosts Josh Olson & Joe Dante about some of the movies they like to watch together while they drink.

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Hundreds of Beavers | The Movies That Made Me

The writers, director & star of Hundreds of Beavers, Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, talk with Josh and Joe about some of the movies they like to watch together while they drink.

09:43 AM - May 07, 2024

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Gravity played like gangbusters in the theater, writes Glenn Erickson of CineSavant. Ace filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón piles on the jeopardy, but also scores class-act storytelling surprises. The film’s Blu-ray reissue is a two-disc set:

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Gravity - Trailers From Hell

This one played like gangbusters in the theater. The only negative flak we heard came from a) people that don’t like Sandra Bullock no matter what she’s in, and b) people that violently deny the premise that space garbage poses a potential threat. The thrills in this presumed 99 & 44..

08:34 PM - May 06, 2024

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Gravity played like gangbusters in the theater, writes Glenn Erickson of CineSavant. Ace filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón piles on the jeopardy, but also scores class-act storytelling surprises. The film’s Blu-ray reissue is a two-disc set:

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Gravity - Trailers From Hell

This one played like gangbusters in the theater. The only negative flak we heard came from a) people that don’t like Sandra Bullock no matter what she’s in, and b) people that violently deny the premise that space garbage poses a potential threat. The thrills in this presumed 99 & 44..

08:33 PM - May 06, 2024

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Death Race 2000 numbers among the favorite wacky New World Pictures projects unpacked by former NWP editors Allan Arkush and Joe Dante in the latest episode of Joe and josholson.bsky.socials podcast, moviesthatmademe.bsky.social! Tomorrow, tune in for a pair of new guests!

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04:15 PM - May 06, 2024

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This week on TFH, we're riding through some Wacky Westerns with Michael Schlesinger! First up, TWO brand-new trailer commentaries! First off, hop onto The Hallelujah Trail with Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick:

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The Hallelujah Trail - Trailers From Hell

The formidable action director John Sturges added laughs to his bag of tricks with this old west spoof starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick. Lancaster plays a Cavalry man pressed into escorting a reformist firebrand played by Remick who's determined to stop delivery of a shipment of whiskey t..

04:12 PM - May 06, 2024

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