42nd Street Forever Vol.3: Exploitation Explosion (2008)

Synapse Films / Color / Dolby / Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) / English / NTSC All Regions / 101 minutes / Unrated / PURCHASE

From Wikipedia : “Exploitation film is a type of film that eschews the expense of quality productions in favor of making films inexpensively, attracting viewers by exciting their more prurient interests. Exploitation films rely heavily on the lurid advertising of their content rather than the intrinsic quality of the film. Exploitation films may feature forbidden sex, wanton violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, monsters, destruction, rebellion and mayhem.”

Now that’s what I’m talking about! Cheaply made movies that use sex and violence of all kinds to draw in the huddled, perverted masses. Evidently Synapse Films likes them as much as I do. They have compiled around 50 of the coolest exploitation film trailers around. Some you have definitely heard of, others you will want to seek out.

Included: Sudden Death, Gorp,The One-Armed Executioner, King Frat, Jaguar Lives!, Prison Girls, Enter the Ninja, 1000 Convicts and a Woman, Lightening Sword of Death, Chain Gang Women, Five Fingers of Death, The Penthouse, The Stranger and the Gunfighter, The House by the Lake, Beyond the Door, Night Call Nurses, Demonoid, The Young Nurses, The Night Child, Candy Strip Nurses, Devil Times Five, The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander, Patrick, Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood, Jennifer, Survive, Phase IV, Guyana: Cult of the Damned, The Uncanny, Seven (No, not the David Fincher one), The Pack, Scorchy, Alligator, Savage Streets, Killer Fish, High Ballin’, Shark’s Treasure, From Noon Till Three, Blood Beach, Lies, Hot T-Shirts, Tattoo, Cheerleaders Wild Weekend, Summer School Teachers… and MORE!

Like the Vol.1 & 2, these trailers are played back to back and gives you the feeling of being in a movie theater in the early ’80s. It’s a very authentic look. A lot of the trailers are bad quality complete with all of the scratches and jumps we as genre fans have come to know and love. They run them in sub-genres: Kung-fu, demonic possession, nature, teens, women in prison, nurses, truckers and even Charlie fuckin’ Bronson movies are featured on this fantastic disk.

If you have already picked up the first 2 volumes, do yourself a favor and give this one a home right next to the others on you DVD shelf. If you aren’t fortunate enough to already own the others, grab this one, watch it, love it, then go pick up the rest of the series. Any retro-exploitation fan can’t help but love seeing these nostalgic teasers from a more renegade time in movies.

Greg Baty

Greg is a lifelong genre film fan who digs boobs, blood and beer. He also enjoys old school punk rock, comic books and spending time with his beautiful wife Ellen and his cats Sydney and Alabama. Greg is the webmaster, Editor in Chief and Head Writer for Cinesploitation.

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