Full Moon’s Grindhouse Collection Now Out: An Overview

Releas Date: Oct 21st, 2011 (DVD).

To kick off a new set of videos from Full Moon Entertainment requires only the legacy Charles Band could exist in. Part of the collection includes some of his earlier work from the 70’s, and all the discothèque styling and funky hairdos of the era hardly trademark the Grindhouse tradition. The variety of sensationalism being offered in the first set of DVDs and how they are packaged are what’s appreciated.

The Best of Sex and Violence, Auditions, and Film Gore, are the most promising. These volumes make for an interesting peek into the work that Charles Band was with or knew of at the time. The first title says it all, and the pornography featured is very tame by today’s standards. Some titles in Film Gore include: “Bury Me An Angel,” “The Devil’s Wedding Night,” “Sleeping Beauty,” and “The Boogeyman.” This collection of trailers highlights the films from a forgotten era and there is no such thing as “bad” with this genre. Exploitation, sex and violence and are all part of what this type of film are all about.

With Film Gore, this compilation DVD offers some of the best splatterpunk effects that one particular era can offer. Elvira hosts this collection of blood and guts. Short clips from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Snuff, Maniaca, Driller Killer, and Blood Feast are just a few of the titles being looked at.

But Full Moon also offers feature length films in this collection. Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story is retitled White Slave. The tale comes with a revenge-driven plot to keep the tale moving, and Elvire Audray plays a very attractive Catherine Miles Armstrong. The bridging narrative of her being on trial frames the rest of the tale. If there were not so much random nudity going on, maybe the story would be worth paying attention to. The violence that’s ridden in this product—especially when it concerns cannibalism—almost makes for an interesting watch, but they’re used mostly to shock than anything else. The plot is okay, but how it concludes is hardly satisfying. Exploitation films really do not need a love story tossed in; it goes against the grindhouse tradition.

Overall: 5 out of 10.

Other DVD titles in this initial release include:

-Necropolis
-Auditions
-White Slave
-Mutant Hunt
-Savage Island
-Zomebiethon
-Dreamaniac

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