‘Warning: Graphic horror!’
Mad Ron’s Prevues from Hell is a 1987 American trailer compilation film directed by Jim Monaco (Celluloid Bloodbath: More Prevues from Hell) from a script co-written with James F. Murray Jr., Ron Roccia and Nick Pawlow.
In 2010, the compilation was re-released on DVD as ‘The Extra Mad Edition’ with extras such as a poster gallery and Jordu Schell (Avatar) working on special effects makeup.
Projectionist Mad Ron shows a gory selection of horror and exploitation film trailers from his private collection to an audience of zombies in a movie theater. Meanwhile, ventriloquist Nick Pawlow and his zombie dummy Happy Goldsplatt provide ‘humour’…
The trailers featured include:
Africa: Blood and Guts
The Blood Spattered Bride and I Dismember Mama
Bloody Pit of Horror
Carnage (aka A Bay of Blood)
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
Horror of the Zombies (aka The Ghost Galleon)
Horror on Snape Island (aka Tower of Evil)
I Drink your Blood and I Eat Your Skin
Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
Mad Doctor of Blood Island
The Maniacs Are Loose (aka The Thrill Killers)
Night of Bloody Horror
Revenge of the Living Dead / Curse of the Living Dead / Fangs of the Living Dead
Silent Night, Evil Night (aka Black Christmas)
Wildcat Women
Reviews:
“The shot-on-video quality is a capsule of the late 80s horror video boom, as are the low budget gore effects and cheesy dialogue. Happy Goldsplatt is a fun, foul mouthed Cryptkeeper-like host that makes circumcision jokes and takes shots at the MPAA.” Oh, the Horror!
“It’s a kick-ass collection of sleazy, bloody horror trailers, 47 in all. But surrounding that ass-kicking is one of the worst ever narrative conceits; while drooling Mad Ron (chained to the projectors) strings together previews for a theater full of idiotic zombies, ventriloquist Nick Pawlow and his zombie dummy Happy Goldsplatt deliver comedy so rancid you’ll want to shred your sensory organs with the skeletonized hands of a dead vaudevillian.” DVD Talk
” …well-made up ghoulies do everything from squeezing the blood from a severed extremity into their carton of popcorn, to giving hickeys as only the undead could. All these in-between shenanigans work, especially in the case of the talented Pawlow who bickers with green-fleshed, off-color (and we mean in another way) Happy, who are seen in between trailers…” DVD Drive-In
“If the flick had been nothing but horror and exploitation trailers, Mad Ron’s Prevues from Hell would’ve been a classic. The problem is that in between the trailers is a bunch of irritating scenes with this jackass ventriloquist and his zombie puppet. These guys just aren’t funny at all.” The Video Vacuum
“The crude shot-on-video cinematography, the cheesy shuddery synthesizer score, and primitive dime-store make-up effects add to rather than detract from the infectiously scroungy charm of the entire seamy enterprise. A sensationally scuzzy and unapologetic serving of prime putrid grindhouse slop.” Woody Anders
“Terrible FX, awful acting and a non-existent sense of humour ensure that the moments in-between the trailers are an ordeal to sit through.” Digital Retribution
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