PermaLink Mu-Meson Archives12/23/2006
On Friday we went to the obscure Mu-Meson Archives in Annandale where Jay Katz and Mrs Death hosted a very special night. Jay Katz had found the best trailers of films mainly from the 1950s, 60s and 70s and with a focus on sci-fi and horror movies. Most of these films would be quite impossible to watch, but it was great fun to just see the three minute trailers. The trailers were typically introduced by a deep male voice saying something like: "Experience the gut-wrenching terror, the blud-curdling horror and the nerve-numbing suspense as the true story of the nameless abomination from outer space will terrify your soul and paralyse your body". Some of them were a bit more specific: "No woman can watch this movie and walk home alone. Therefore no woman will be allowed to enter the theatre alone!".

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The high light of the night was Sweden - Heaven and Hell from the 1970s and was meant to introduce the Americans to the frivolous sauna-sex culture of Scandinavia. The adventure commedy Puss in Boots looked absolutely horrible. Frankenstein meets the Spacemonster was possibly the most interesting of the sci-fi horror flick trailers as "Earthly horror meets the space terror". The classic Double Agent 73 was a movie I'd like to watch again. It features the Polish star Chesty Morgan as the big bosom (73 inches) agent who has a spy camera in her right breast. I remember watching it in Slagehal 3 in Aarhus some years ago. "She is more woman than any man can handle". Another spy/agent movie was Danger! Diabolik from 1968 and clearly a rip off of the first few James Bond movies. I think that would actually be worth watching as a double feature with Dr No (1962). A bit like watching Star Wars - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977) and Starcrash (Luigi Cozzi, 1979) on the same night!

A few other good trailers from the Mu-Meson archive were Village of the Giants, Attack of the 50 foot Woman, the Astounding She-Monster, the Crawling Hand, Dolomite (kick-ass blaxploitation from 1975 only rivaled by Sun-Ra's Space is the Place), and finally the Undertaker and His Pals (see the poster above).

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