I am a sucker for trailer collections. The problem with that is one tends to see the same coming attractions pop up, ad infinitum. That is not the case with Video Dimensions’ Mondo Sleazo: The Sleaziest Trailers in the World, which immediately became apparent, as electroshocked nipples tend to do. Even better, unlike a majority of the movies it features, it lives up to its title!
The program’s two hours are separated loosely into six categories that collectively represent a hodgepodge of weird genres, from kung fu (The Flying Killer) to blaxploitation (Disco Godfather), and weirder subgenres that include the sexy swashbuckler (Tower of Screaming Virgins), the spoof film (The Sex O’Clock News) and even puppet porn (Let My Puppets Come), the latter of which can’t be unseen and forces me to rethink my stance on yarn.
By the time you get to the third grouping, their interchangeability becomes startlingly obvious. See if you can guess what theme links these titles: The Smut Peddler, Blazing Stewardesses and Another Day, Another Man. If you guessed “sex,” you’re correct, and possibly gutter-minded.
Yes, as something titled Mondo Sleazo should be, it is filled with flicks about Child Brides and Street Girls, about Caged Virgins and Girls for Rent. Mind you, this is no complaint — not when something like Sugar Cookies dares to compare itself to Hitchcock (not once, but twice) and when Mundo Depravados pits stripper Tempest Storm against “a sex fiend killer,” the former playing Agent 48-24-36. That’s exploitation genius, as much of this disc is. —Rod Lott
Sick dude!! I haven’t heard of this one. You had me at ‘ puppet porn’. Lol
The film society I’m in does a trailer fest as part of it’s quarterly meetings, a few of these have been thrown in at the end. The trailers are new movies coming up and some classics. The sleaze is just a cherry on top. I will look for this!